Daniela Ruah

In A World-First, UPNA Scientists Created Interactive 3D Holograms Using Elastic Diffusers, Enabling Safe Touch. Unlike Existing Solutions By Voxon Photonics & Brightvox Inc., Users Can Now Grab And Manipulate Floating Images Like A 3D Cube Or Skull. The High-Speed Diffuser (2,880 Images/Sec) Creates 3D Visuals, Ideal For Education And Museums.

In A World First, Scientists Used AI To Design Nanomaterials (NMs) That Have Steel’s Strength And Styrofoam’s Lightness. Machine Learning Was Used To Optimize The Designs For Unprecedented Toughness, Doubling The Strength Of The 3D-Printed NMs Over Existing Ones. Potential Uses Include Ultralight, Fuel-Saving Aircraft, And Car Components.

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Nvidia’s New Blackwell B200 GPU Is The World’s Most Powerful Chip For AI. The B200, Which Offers 20 Petaflops, When Combined With The GB200 (Featuring Two B200 GPUs And A Grace CPU), Boosts AI Computing Efficiency And Performance. Nvidia Claims The B200 Cuts Costs And Energy Use By Up To 25x Over The H100 And May Cost $30,000 To $40,000.

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Beyoncé‘s “Texas Hold ‘EM” Not Only Made Her The First Black Woman And 2nd Solo Female Artist, After Taylor Swift, To Top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs But Also The First Woman To Lead Both Hot Country Songs And Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Charts Since The Charts Began In 1958. Justin Bieber, Billy Ray Cyrus, ETC., Have Also Led Both Charts.

Women Swept Major Categories And Made History At The 2024 Grammys. Karol G: 1st Female Reggaeton Artist To Win Best Música Urbana Album. Paramore: 1st Woman-Fronted Rock Band To Win Best Rock Album. Taylor Swift Won Album Of The Year For The Fourth Time, Surpassing Icons Like Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, And Stevie Wonder.

Taylor Swift‘s (TS) Eras Tour Is Projected To Become The Highest-Grossing Tour Of All Time, With An Estimated $1 B In Sales. The Tour Features, E.G., Elaborate Staging, And Over 40 Songs. The Top 3 Highest-Grossing Concert Tours Include Elton John ($853 M), Ed Sheeran ($776 M), And U2 ($736 M). Total Spending On TS Tour In 2023 Is ~$5 B.

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The First Drug Designed To Slow Brain Destruction In Early Stages Alzheimer’s Patients Has Been Developed. The Drug, Lecanemab, Is An Antibody Engineered To Tell The Immune System To Clear Amyloid From The Brain. Many Are Hailing The Drug As Momentous, Even Though The Benefit Is Small, With The Risk Of Brain Swelling And Bleeding.

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The US FDA Has Approved The First Smartphone App For Delivering Insulin. The App, T:Connect App From Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc, Will Be Paired With The T:Slim X2 Insulin Pump. The App, Which Can Be Used On Both Android And iOS Phones, Will Display, E.G., The Last 24 Hours Of Glucose Trends, Pump Status Changes And Insulin Therapy Data.

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Researchers Used Chunks Of Tumour From The Brain Of Patients With Glioblastoma To Print A 3-D Model Similar To What They See In The Patients’ MRI Scans. And Then, Pumped The Patients’ Blood Into The 3-D Model With A Compound That Mimics The Brain, To Test The Efficacy Of A Potential Treatment Before Using It On The Real Body. Cool!

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The US FDA, Pending The Clinical Benefit Study, Has Conditionally Approved The First New Alzheimer’s Disease Drug, Since A Drug Was Last Approved In Almost 20 Years, In 2003. The Novel Experimental Drug, Known As Aducanumab Or Aduhelm, Is Intended For Patients With Earliest Stage Of Dementia, And To Slow Alzheimer’s Disease Progression.