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2022-08-28 23:59:01 Accurate diagnosis is essential for the proper treatment and ensuring the well-being of patients. However, some diseases present with similar clinical symptoms and laboratory results, making diagnosing them more challenging.

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to diagnose numerous diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes, chronic heart disease, tuberculosis, stroke and cerebrovascular, hypertension, and skin and liver disease.

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2022-08-28 20:48:01 Frogs once lived alongside dinosaurs. About 45 million years ago, the North Sea covered half of Germany. It’s incredible to think these little creatures survived the dinosaurs’ extinction. But a lower level of mass death did take place in what is now called the Geiseltal region in central Germany, and the cause has long remained a mystery.

Hundreds of frog fossils were found in a mass grave in Geiseltal’s 45-million-year-old swampy coastlands, and their reason for being there has confounded scientists for decades. But my team’s study found an explanation: they died from exhaustion while mating.

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2022-08-28 14:32:55 Dogs get dementia too. But it’s often difficult to spot. Research published today shows how common it is, especially in dogs over ten years old.

Here are some behavioral changes to watch out for in your senior dog and when to consult your veterinarian.

What is doggy dementia?
Doggy dementia, or canine cognitive dysfunction, is similar to Alzheimer’s disease in humans, a progressive brain disease that comes with behavioral, cognitive, and other changes.

It is generally seen in dogs over eight years old but can occur in ones as young as six.

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2022-08-28 06:01:53 Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) claim to have found a novel technique for programmable chromosome fusion successfully producing mice with genetic changes "that occur on a million-year evolutionary scale" in the laboratory.

The findings could shed light on how chromosome rearrangements—the tidy packages of organized genes provided in equal numbers by each parent, which align and trade or blend traits to produce offspring—influence evolution, reported Phys.org on Thursday.

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2022-08-27 23:31:01 Astronomers claim to have found the oldest fossil radio galaxy yet discovered, hiding in a cluster.

The brightest Galaxy in the cluster erupted as a result of supermassive black hole activity, blowing massive bubbles of radio light into space, according to a report published by ScienceAlert on Saturday.

"These newly discovered bubbles – known as radio lobes, or a radio galaxy – are the oldest of their kind we've ever seen," claimed the astronomers' team led by Surajit Paul and Savitribai Phule from Pune University in India.

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2022-08-27 18:58:01 Nandakumar Menon from Kerala, India, loved his student life so much that at the age of 80, he chose to return to it.

Menon, now 81, recently appeared for the entrance exam of the Bachelor of Science course in programming and data science offered by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, one of India's most prestigious universities and ranked the top engineering college in India by the Ministry of Education's National Institutional Ranking Framework.


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2022-08-27 12:39:26 Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there faster, they could dig a tunnel straight through the mountain to create a shortcut. That’s the idea behind a wormhole.

A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that cuts the travel time from one point to the other. Instead of traveling for many millions of years from one galaxy to another, under the right conditions, one could theoretically use a wormhole to cut the travel time down to hours or minutes.

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2022-08-27 12:31:37 As we approach the end of the school holidays, parents across the country are saying the same thing: “If I had a pound for every time I heard ‘are we nearly there yet?’, I’d be rich.”

Having three young children myself, I know only too well the feeling of dread when, 30 minutes into a five-hour drive, the interrogation begins.

In our family, it starts quite politely. “Mummy, are we nearly there yet?” drifts over from the back seats. But this approach is rapidly replaced by an aggressive cross-examination, picking apart how much longer I previously said was left of the journey versus how long I am currently saying remains.

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2022-08-27 04:30:47 As part of its $3 billion aid announced, the U.S. is sending Ukraine Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment (VAMPIRE) system, a portable rocket launcher that can be installed on a pickup truck.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Western allies such as U.S. and U.K. have been providing military aid. Earlier, we reported how the U.S. aid included Switchblade drones, one of which also caused damage that was captured on camera.

With the conflict now having crossed the six-month mark and showing no signs of abating, Ukraine needs long-term support, which is affordable and sustainable in the long run, and the VAMPIRE system is part of that plan.

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