Image: Small Tortoiseshell, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
This interesting NPR Shortwave podcast episode talks about researchers in South Africa that have discovered high concentrations of microclots in the blood of patients with Long COVID, which could lead to a biomarker diagnosis method for the condition.
Image: CDC, Christine Daniloff/MIT
Researchers at MIT used AI to discover an antibiotic effective against the hospital superbug Acinetobacter baumannii, in less than 2 hours
Image: Prasad Shirvalkar
Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco have developed a method that uses brain waves to identify chronic pain. By surveying patients during chronic pain episodes about their pain, with electrodes attached measuring their brain activity, the researchers created a dataset that could be used to train an AI model to detect the onset of chronic pain from brain wave measurements, and distinguish it from acute pain.
Image ChatUML
ChatUML is an AI tool that allows you to generate a UML diagram from a text prompt. The hours this tool could have saved me in the noughties!
Image: Derek Lovley/Ella Maru Studio
Engineers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a method to generate electricity from air using two porous nanofilms that create an imbalance of charge between water droplets. Stacking this air-gen device could allow the technology to scale up to the kilowatt level of electricity generation.
Image: RTÉ, Maud Gonne
RTÉ digitised their acetate archives and made them available online. Among them is an incredible interview from 1945 with Maud Gonne, in which she describes disruption land war evictions on horseback, and going on the to France, before she was 21!
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
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