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    Researchers developed new method for Detecting Heart Failure with a Smartphone

    April 9, 2024, Categories  Health/Medical, Biology/Biotechnology

    The new technology, which was created at the University of Turku and developed by the company CardioSignal, uses a smartphone to analyse heart movement and detect heart failure. The study involved five organisations from Finland and the United States.

    Heart failure is a condition affecting tens of millions of people worldwide, in which the heart is unable to perform its normal function of pumping blood to the body.

    It is a serious condition that develops as a result of a number of cardiovascular diseases and its symptoms may require repeated hospitalisation.

    Heart failure is challenging to diagnose because its symptoms, such as shortness of breath, abnormal fatigue on exertion, and swelling, can be caused by a number of conditions.

    There is no simple test available to dete...

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    This 3D-Printer can figure out How to Print with an Unknown Material

    April 9, 2024, Categories  Chemistry/Nanotechnology

    A 3D printer with two-tier cube structure while revealing open wires and circuitry.
    Caption: Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically identify the parameters of an unknown material on its own.
    Credits:Credit: Courtesy of the researchers

    Researchers developed a 3D printer that can automatically determine the printing parameters of an unknown material. This could help engineers use emerging renewable or recycled materials that have fluctuating properties, which makes them difficult to print with.

    While 3D printing has exploded in popularity, many of the plastic materials these printers use to create objects cannot be easily recycled. While new sustainable materials are emerging for use in 3D printing, they remain difficult to adopt because 3D printer settings need to be adjusted for each material, a process generally done by hand.

    To print a new ma...

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    Researchers Enable Detection of Remarkable Gravitational-Wave Signal

    April 9, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    coalescence and merger of a lower mass-gap black hole with a neutron star
    The coalescence and merger of a lower mass-gap black hole (dark grey surface) with a neutron star with colours ranging from dark blue (60 grams per cubic centimetre) to white (600 kilograms per cubic centimetre) and highlight the strong deformations of the low-density material of the neutron star. Credit: I. Markin (Potsdam University), T. Dietrich (Potsdam University and Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics).

    Researchers from the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (ICG) have helped to detect a remarkable gravitational-wave signal, which could hold the key to solving a cosmic mystery.

    The discovery is from the latest set of results announced by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA co...

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    Inexplicable Flying Fox found in Hydra Galaxy Cluster

    April 9, 2024, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    GMRT radio image of the central region of the Hydra Cluster. The “head” of the Flying Fox discovered this time points to the south-west (lower right). The Flying Fox has a “wingspan” of 220,000 light years. The white contours in the background show the X-ray surface brightness as observed by ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite.(Credit: Kohei Kurahara)

    High sensitivity radio observations have discovered a cloud of magnetized plasma in the Hydra galaxy cluster. The odd location and shape of this plasma defy all conventional explanations. Dubbed the Flying Fox based on its silhouette, this plasma will remain a mystery until additional observations can provide more insight.

    A team led by Kohei Kurahara at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan analyzed observations from the Gia...

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