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If you’ve been keeping an eye on electric motorcycles of late, you will surely have heard of Verge's hubless e-moto sporting a donut-shaped rear wheel. It divides opinions: you either love it or you hate it.Continue ReadingCategory: Motorcycles, TransportTags: Hubless, Electric Motorcycles, Electric Motors, Hub Motors
Nerve or neuropathic pain has long been a tricky condition to treat effectively. However, a new study has comprehensively evaluated current drug and non-drug therapies to provide up-to-date guidelines to inform treatment options for those with the condition.Continue ReadingCategory: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: Neuropathic pain, Nerves, Chronic pain, Treatment, Neu
For the first time, surgeons have successfully performed a remarkable new heart transplant in which the donor organ never skips a beat in the process, reducing the damage that can occur during such a complex operation. It ushers in a new era of more successful heart transplant surgery.Continue ReadingCategory: Heart Disease, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: Cardiovascular, Heart Fai
Lasers are great for heating things up, whether you need to do it quickly, hit a precise target, or do it from a distance. Under specific conditions, lasers can also cool things down, and that might be JUST what we need to tackle way-too-toasty data centers.Continue ReadingCategory: Physics, ScienceTags: Laser, Data Center, Chips, Sandia Labs, University of New Mexico, Cooling, Photonics
Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that are invisible to the body’s immune system, according to a new study. It could mean risky post-transplant anti-rejection drugs are soon a thing of the past.Continue ReadingCategory: Brain Health, Body & MindTags: Parkinson's Disease, Stem Cells, Dopamine, Neural graft
Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain perception is affected by conditions like autism and offers an animal-free method of testing pain treatments.Continue ReadingCategory: Chronic Pain, Illnesses and conditions, Body & MindTags: Chronic
Researchers have reviewed non-drug and non-surgical treatments for low back pain to assess which ones are more likely to reduce pain and improve function. What the review made clear is that more research into effective low back pain treatments is needed.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness & Healthy Living, Body & MindTags: Low back pain, Treatment, Chronic pain, University of New South Wal
It wasn't that long ago that the only way to test for Alzheimer's disease was to perform an autopsy on someone who had been suffering from dementia to look for the telltale tangles of tau and amyloid proteins in the brain. While these tangles are not necessarily the cause of Alzheimer's disease, they are certainly its major hallmark; their sticky, clumping action in the brain is at least partly r
California-based researchers have developed an AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Innovations, Body & MindTags: Speech, Text-to-Speech, Artificial Intelligence, Paralysis, University of California Berkeley, University of California San Francisco
More than a million people of nearly all ages lace up their trainers and hit the pavement in a marathon every year. And while running any distance has numerous health benefits, researchers warn that going the distance may not be so good for the brain – with the negative effects lingering for a month following a race.Continue ReadingCategory: Fitness & Exercise, Wellness & Healthy Living,


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