🫀 Surgeons can now fix a clogged artery with... a stent that completely disappears. Holds the vessel open while it heals. Releases anti-scarring meds. Then dissolves into water and CO2. 🔬 The artery moves naturally again, like the disease was never there. ✨ #omgfacts #MedicalBreakthrough #HeartHealth #Biotech #FutureOfMedicineshow more

🦤 Scientists want to bring back a bird taller... than your front door. The Moa's egg was 8x bigger than an emu's, so no living bird could incubate it. The fix: a fully artificial egg, which just hatched 26 healthy chicks. 🥚 Next: editing an emu's DNA to match the Moa. ✨ #omgfacts #Science #DeExtinctionshow more

💧 Britain is covering its drinking water reservoirs with... floating solar panels. Panels power water treatment. Shade cuts evaporation and starves algae. Cool water makes them more efficient than on land. ☀️ Reservoirs that power themselves. ✨ #omgfacts #SolarPower #UK #CleanEnergy #Innovationshow more

🔥 A woman in Australia sued her neighbors because... she could smell their barbecue from her yard. Court dismissed the case. Then 3,000 people organized a public BBQ outside her house in protest. 🍖 Lawyers had to shut it down. 😂 #omgfacts #Australia #FunnyStory #DidYouKnow #BBQshow more

PHOTON COUNTING CT AND A NEW CONCEPT OF NORMAL... CORONARY ARTERIES For more than 2 decades we have been performing Cardiac CT with constant improvements in all parameters (spatial, temporal and contrast resolution). The improvements were progressive in certain fields and steep in other (e.g.: the introduction of Dual Source CT that completely changed the range of temporal resolution achievable basically overnight and still is the most important source of flexibility in Cardiac CT scanning after almost 20 years). Spatial resolution instead was improved in a slow and progressive way until the test EID CT generations that achieved a spatial resolution of 250 microns. This allowed us to assess a coronary artery tree and define it as normal when no apprentice changes were visibile up to that value. But we know that the normal thickness of coronary artery walls is quite below that threshold. It is more in the range of 80-200 microns. Therefore, the very early changes in coronary artery wall thickness could not be picked up by EID CT technology. With the introduction of PCCT we can constantly achieve 100 microns spatial resolution which means that we work extol in range in which coronary artery disease starts. It also means that we don't see any thickening of the the coronary artery walls we have a much higher specificity and reliability. This concept is a transformative one because it allows us to shift earlier and earlier the beginning of atherosclerosis in our patients and think even more precisely in terms of cardiovascular prevention and monitoring. Movie: example of normal coronary artery tree with PCCT. A new era is coming into practice and it is the age of Photon Counting CT which pushes this boundaries further away. PCCT is a NEW Imaging Modality. PCCT is changing the game, the field, the language, the priorities and in the end it will change the entire infrastructure of diagnostic medicine. PS: note that PCCT images have to be reduced in resolution when uploaded in social media. #CardiacImaging #MedicalInnovation #StentAssessment #Radiology #PCCT #photoncounting #QuantumHD #CT #computedtomography #yesCCT #coronaryarterydisease #ischemia #naeotomalpha #Peak #Pro #Prime #speed #cardiac #highresolution #siemenshealthinners #CardiacCT #PhotonCountingCT #MedicalImaging #HeartHealth #CardiovascularInnovation #Radiology #AIInMedicineshow more

🐦 Japan's bullet trains once made a sonic boom... you could hear a quarter mile away every time they hit a tunnel. An engineer who watched birds for fun noticed kingfishers dive without a splash, then copied their beak for the train's nose. 🚄 Quieter. 15% less power. Faster. ✨ #omgfacts #Japan #BulletTrain #Engineering #Innovationshow more

On your open perpetual position can become an NFT... and live in your wallet. You open a position like normal than mint it. The program issues a token 2022 nft, that points to your exact position. Normally your open position lives inside the protocol. With Percolator Trade your able to wrap it into an NFT that sits in your own wallet. A real, ownable object instead of a line in a dashboard. Because it’s a token, it moves like one. Send the NFT to another wallet and the position goes with it. Whoever holds the NFT owns the trade. One NFT = one position If you burn it, your back to holding the position directly. That’s the composable part, a position use to be stuck inside one account. Because it’s a token, it can now be sold OTC or used by anything that speaks tokens. Why does it matter? Because the position is bound to the NFT, it can’t be drained out from under whoever holds it so there is no middleman that holds your position. The NFT does, and the NFT is yours. One important safety detail; transfers run through a token 2022 hook that checks the positions health first, so it can’t be handed off in a broken state & the NFT layer is a separate program so it can never touch the funds the core engine holds.show more

At the age of thirteen, in the late 1940s,... Thomas Fogarty, newly bereft of his father, found himself employed at Cincinnati’s Good Samaritan Hospital, sorting supplies and learning the rhythms of the place from the ground up. With time and a certain doggedness, he moved from the stockroom to the operating room, working his way up to the role of scrub technician, where he stood at the surgeon’s elbow, handing over instruments. Back then, the approach to removing blood clots from an artery was crude and perilous. It was a bit like a ritual sacrifice—that involved slicing the artery wide open in a procedure that could easily stretch over nine hours and leave the patient with incisions from the abdomen down both legs. The outcome, more often than not, was dismal. Many didn’t survive, many others ended up with amputations. It was during those hours at the operating table, observing the struggle of clot removal, that Fogarty began to wonder if there might be a way to make the process a bit less medieval. He retreated to his garage with little more than a length of tubing, a surgical glove, and an idea. There, he crafted a tool so simple that it verged on the audacious. He started with a urethral catheter, flexible yet sturdy enough to navigate through a clot. To the end of the catheter, he attached a tiny balloon made from the finger of a latex glove. Once past the clot, the balloon could be inflated with saline from the other end of the tube, expanding it to the width of the artery and then pulled back—bringing the clot along with it. The device was so simple, so staggeringly clever, that when he demonstrated its use, the surgeons were equal parts gobsmacked and irritated. With it, clot removal (embolectomy) was no longer a barbaric ritual but a neat, almost gentlemanly procedure. Like removing a cork from a bottle. Thomas Fogarty went on to become a cardiovascular surgeon. That little embolectomy catheter he dreamt up became the very first minimally invasive surgical device. Here’s a video showing how it’s done: through a small incision in the groin, under local anesthesia.show more

They sent a tanker from Belgium loaded with explosives... meant to blow up in a Russian port. The FSB caught it before departure to Turkey. This is what actual state-sponsored terrorism looks like. A gas vessel arrived at Ust-Luga port in the Leningrad region carrying explosive devices manufactured in a NATO country with industrial-grade components. Zero coverage in Western media, because no criminal talks openly about their own crimes. Alexey Malyshev, the head of a company employing demining specialists, believes that “with a high degree of probability, the explosion was intended to occur after the vessel had been loaded. The mines were attached to a dry surface while the ship was still empty and had not yet settled deeper into the water. These were not underwater operations. Someone approached the vessel and planted the explosive device рассчитывая that once the ship was loaded and sank lower into the water, the explosion would occur.”show more

🚨Anthropic just gave Claude Code eyes and hands. read... that again. it can now open apps on mac, click around macOS, find bugs visually, screenshot them, fix the code, rebuild, and verify the fix. one prompt. absolute zero human input. full autonomy. seems like Claude Code is becoming a super app. i’m so here for it.show more

This group of soldiers was jumping out of a... military aircraft with the door wide open high above the ground. They were stepping off the ramp one by one into freefall with their parachutes ready while the rest of the team watched from inside. They look completely calm and professional as they leap out over the clouds and countryside below. I give them props for making it look so easy up there, would you ever jump out of a plane like that?show more

🚨More Dementors In Canada? Op States: "Time: September 21,... 7:20pm Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada I was out on my balcony filming a storm and sent the video to my partner (who’s currently out of town). He noticed something odd that I completely missed. In the first two seconds, you can see a bug fly by the camera on the right. Nothing unusual there. But right after that, there’s a black object that moves across the top-centre of the screen. It has what looks like a tail and a metallic or shiny-looking top. It doesn’t look like a bird or balloon to me, but I’m open to ideas! I didn't see it until after I watched the video back, so unfortunately it's very short and not focused on the object. The lights in the background are an installation in the nearby park. It's a metallic tree with LED lights and a water feature with more LEDs. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts!" Source:show more

Think your bottle is clean? Think again. 👀 Many... people wash bottles with detergent, but sometimes the soap can stay trapped inside. You may think it’s rinsed out… but residue can still remain. Try this simple cleaning hack instead. Add raw rice, salt, vinegar, and a little water into the bottle. Close the lid and shake it well. The rice works like a natural scrub and helps remove dirt and residue stuck inside the bottle. Rinse with clean water and see the difference. A simple way to keep your bottles clean and hygienic. ✨show more

Many Christians choose to break the covenant of circumcision... even though the covenant should be everlasting, but at the same time, they say God will never flood the Earth again because He made a covenant and the rainbow is the sign. So why do people think they can break covenants, but God can't, even though the Bible is clear that God can withdraw judgment if there is repentance, and He can also withdraw a blessing if there is disobedience? Also, the promise might be for a certain Age or Aion. Life will not be destroyed entirely, the same as it was not destroyed during Noah's Flood. Everything points out that the Flood is a cyclical event, and being born again from water, or purification by water and baptism, is connected to the Flood.show more

This work makes a humanoid robot do simple parkour... moves by looking with a depth camera and choosing the right move on the fly. The big deal is that it turns lots of small human moves into long, real-time robot behavior, without hand-coding every transition or retraining for each new course. A humanoid robot is usually good at steady walking, but it often fails when it has to do fast moves like jumping up, vaulting, or rolling, and then keep going to the next obstacle. The hard part is that you cannot easily collect training data for every possible obstacle shape, distance, and mistake, so robots end up learning a few moves that only work in a narrow setup. This work starts from short clips of real human parkour moves, like stepping over, vaulting, climbing, and rolling. It uses motion matching, which is basically a smart “pick the next clip that fits best right now” search, to stitch those short clips into a long, smooth plan that looks like a human doing a whole course. Then it trains a controller with reinforcement learning (RL), which means the robot learns by trial and error to copy that plan while staying balanced and not falling. After training separate expert controllers for different moves, it compresses them into 1 controller that uses only onboard depth sensing and a simple “go this fast in this direction” command. In real tests on a Unitree G1 humanoid, it can clear multiple obstacles in a row, adapt when obstacles get moved, and climb a wall up to 1.25m.show more

Where do you think he's going? Create your version... on BudgetPixel AI using Seedance 2.0 Prompt A surreal, hyper-realistic video inside a crowded indoor hotel swimming pool. A giant woman’s massive wet head and neck fill most of the frame, floating in the water like a living island. Her face is freckled, shiny, and expressive. A normal-sized shirtless man in blue plaid swim trunks stands on the pool ladder holding a white plastic cup, then steps onto her forehead, balances, and deliberately climbs into her open mouth. He grabs her nose and upper lip for leverage, swings his legs inside, and disappears completely into her mouth as water and bubbles surge around her lips. Background swimmers (men and women in swimsuits) point, laugh, and react with shock and amusement. Depth markers on the wall read 3FT and 5FT. The giant woman keeps her eyes open, looking upward and sideways with a mix of surprise and mild amusement while the man vanishes. Cinematic lighting, wet skin reflections, realistic water physics, absurd scale contrast, 9-second duration.show more

✨🇨🇳A girl was swept into a raging river in... Anhui, China. A passerby didn’t think twice — he bolted to the edge and dove straight into the churning water. No hesitation. No second guessing. Just pure instinct to save a life. He pulled her to safety, then walked away like it was nothing. No cape, no badge — just an ordinary person doing something extraordinary. The most touching heroes are the ones who never asked to be called one. ❤️show more

This video reveals what appears to be sewage flowing... into water on Southend seafront. The footage was captured on Sunday. The area of darker coloured water was spotted by a man in an aircraft who labelled it “disgraceful”. Mark Hutley said: “I’ve never seen anything like it. It could be seen for miles.” It was spotted between Chalkwell beach and Westcliff beach. The apparent sewage spill is close to one of Anglian Water’s ‘storm overflow’ pipes that leads into the water from the land. Latest records indicate that it was active on Sunday 8 September and emptying into the area of the Thames Estuary for a period of time. Anglian Water have a permit from the Environment Agency to operate the storm overflow pipe, which specifies conditions for controlled sewage and stormwater spills during heavy rainfall. This is in order to prevent flooding in homes and businesses when the sewer network becomes overloaded with rainwater.show more