The medical staff at Wuhan Union Hospital have been risking their lives fighting the coronavirus. True medical heroes. Great news that 11 medical staff at the hospital who were infected have turned negative for the virus and symptoms were controlled after treatment!4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
An AI algorithm can now predict faces with just 16x16 resolution. Top is low resolution images, middle is the computer's output, bottom is the original photos.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
First photo of a black hole in the heart of the M87 galaxy taken by the Event Horizon Telescope5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
Series of Self Portraits documenting Alzheimer's disease progression, William Utermohlen, Canvas, 1967-20006yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Art
Microbot picks up sperm, carries it to egg and thrusts it inside. The miracle of life.7yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/gifs
Lung in a box - the system is used to keep organs healthy during transport for transplantation.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
When Americans were ignorant about HIV and how it was spread, Barbara Bush went to a home where children with HIV were being treated. She hugged one them. (1980s)6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
1939: Child poses with the first Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse costumes. Walt Disney was very unhappy with the costumes and later had them redesigned.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
The world's smallest house - assembled inside a scanning electron microscope’s vacuum chamber, the house is just 20 micrometers long. It was built to test whether a robot could achieve nanometer accuracy in building.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
The smallest movie ever made, A Boy and His Atom, was created using individual atoms and a scanning tunneling microscope.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
On this day 98 years ago, a 14 yr. old boy, Leonard Thompson, dying of diabetes (he weighed 65 lb), was given the first injection of insulin. It saved his life; he lived 13 more years. The before & after pics of his insulin treatment are below. A great achievement of our species.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Baby hippo was separated from his family by a tsunami. This 103 year old tortoise became his best friend.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/aww
The smallest movie ever made, A Boy and His Atom, was created using individual atoms and a scanning tunneling microscope.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Image taken from the surface of the asteroid, Ryugu, by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The US has performed its first double lung transplant for lung damage caused by COVID-19. The recipient is a 20 yr old woman. She remains on a ventilator at this time. The damage inflicted by SARSCoV2 is stunning.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The medical staff at Wuhan Union Hospital have been risking their lives fighting the coronavirus. True medical heroes. Great news that 11 medical staff at the hospital who were infected have turned negative for the virus and symptoms were controlled after treatment!4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A healthy society should not have only one voice”: Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, one of the eight whistleblowers who tried to warn other medics of the coronavirus outbreak but were reprimanded by local police, dies of coronavirus on Thursday in Wuhan. RIP.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
X-ray of a patient who attempted suicide by injecting themselves with mercury. The patient recovered with oral chelation therapy.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Researchers found a grain of silicon carbide, dug out of the Murchison meteorite, that is seven billion years old. This presolar grain was belched into the universe by a dying star during the final stage of its life. It eventually hitched a ride to Earth on an asteroid that produced the meteorite.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
A man coughed up a completely intact, six-inch-wide clot of human blood in the exact shape of the right bronchial tree, leaving doctors perplexed as to how it came out in one piece.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Merino sheep are normally shorn annually. One such sheep - named Shrek - avoided being caught and shorn for six years letting his coat grow to an impressive length.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The Daily Mail is at it again. We need better scientific journalism if we want people to better understand science.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The first image of the Earth from the Moon. Taken by NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The night side of Pluto, its thin atmosphere illuminated by the Sun from 4.9 billion kilometers away. Captured by the departing New Horizons spacecraft after its closest approach 19 minutes earlier.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Can Your AI Differentiate Cats from COVID-19? There is a recent interest in using AI to detect COVID-19 from Chest X-Ray images. However, recent work serve as a warning to practitioners by showing that these AIs are susceptible to making overconfident and wildly in accurate predictions.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
CT scan of a patient who had swallowed 63 packets of cocaine. The packets were successfully evacuated using laxatives.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Scientists found 1 billion-year-old fossil cells so well preserved they could see structures inside. The fossils were likely marine bacteria from rivers or ocean water near the Rodinia supercontinent.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The most complex organic chemistry synthesis, at 92-109 steps produced a novel anticancer therapy derived from natural products.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/chemistry
Image taken from the surface of the asteroid, Ryugu, by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The consistent underestimation of global solar capacity growth, illustrated4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
This is the first image ever taken of Earth from the surface of another planet. It was taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit one hour before sunrise on the 63rd Martian day of its mission. (March 8, 2004)5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The world's smallest house - assembled inside a scanning electron microscope’s vacuum chamber, the house is just 20 micrometers long. It was built to test whether a robot could achieve nanometer accuracy in building.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Arterial blood (bottom) is the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system and is bright red. Venous blood (top) is much darker.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
During the Great Depression, candy with a toy inside - usually a coin or lead trinket - was popular. However, they could be deadly when swallowed by small children. These photos helped convince Congress to write a law forbidding the sale of trinkets embedded in confections.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
In 1995, artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Before his death in 2007, he created a series of self portraits, documenting the gradual decay of his mind due to this crippling disease.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
A 300 year old piece of wearable tech: an abacus ring from Chinese Qing Dynasty era.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Baby hippo was separated from his family by a tsunami. This 103 year old tortoise became his best friend.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Eyebleach
So Pence left an NFL game early because he objected to people protesting police brutality by taking a knee during the national anthem7yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/PoliticalHumor
Reprogramming patient white blood cells to attack tumor cells elicits powerful anti-tumor response. Left, black indicates tumor cells; right, one month after treatment tumor is undetectable.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
We are in the middle of a biodiversity crisis - sometimes called the sixth extinction. Yet, many don’t know it. Compare media coverage of climate change (brown) to the biodiversity crisis (green).5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
A man coughed up a completely intact, six-inch-wide clot of human blood in the exact shape of the right bronchial tree, leaving doctors perplexed as to how it came out in one piece.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
2018 molecules of the year: including nerve agents, deathcap mushroom toxins and semi-conductive graphene5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/chemistry
LIDAR (laser scanning) image showing 1500 years worth of movement for the Willamette River in Oregon.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
A premature baby was buried in a jar in an medieval cemetery with a coin to “pay” for passage into heaven. The copper from the coin mummified its arm.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
On this day 98 years ago, a 14 yr. old boy, Leonard Thompson, dying of diabetes (he weighed 65 lb), was given the first injection of insulin. It saved his life; he lived 13 more years. The before & after pics of his insulin treatment are below. A great achievement of our species.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
🔥 This is a hemimastigote. Canadian scientists found it in the woods of Nova Scotia. Genetic analysis shows they're more different from other organisms than animals and fungi and possibly represent a completely new part of the tree of life.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
An AI algorithm can now predict faces with just 16x16 resolution. Top is low resolution images, middle is the computer's output, bottom is the original photos.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Amateur archaeologist unearths an 1,800-year-old Roman signet ring engraved with the goddess of Victory in a field in Somerset.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Technically known as thanatosis, playing dead is a way to trick predators that watch for movement in potential prey5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
For the first time a fertility services company is offering embryo genetic testing for a baby’s eye color.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
This phallus is a Roman symbol meaning 'good luck'. The graffiti from 207 AD was discovered at a quarry near Hadrian's Wall.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The heart of a blue whale, the largest animal on Earth. Weighing in at 440 lbs, technicians at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto were able to preserve the specimen after a blue whale carcass washed ashore in Newfoundland.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
This condition is called Mirror Hand Syndrome, less than 100 cases have ever been diagnosed and the cause is still unknown.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
This plant is the oldest ever to be regenerated. It was grown from 32,000-year-old seeds - buried by an Ice Age squirrel and unearthed from the permafrost by researchers - beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/gardening
If an eye doctor looked at a retinal photo, the chance of getting gender correct would be 50-50. But deep learning training led to an AUC of 0.97. And we have no idea what features machines are seeing the make this possible.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
Archaeologists found the remains of a premature baby who was buried in a jar in an medieval cemetery with a coin to “pay” for passage into heaven. The copper from the coin mummified its arm.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Archaeology
If an eye doctor looked at a retinal photo, the chance of getting gender correct would be 50-50. But deep learning training led to an AUC of 0.97. And we have no idea what features machines are seeing the make this possible.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Extremely rare condition. A skull of a man with Proteus syndrome. Proteus syndrome is a rare condition characterized by overgrowth of the bones, skin, muscles, fatty tissues, and blood and lymphatic vessels.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
First images from the surface of the dark side of the moon. The Chinese rover has succeeded in establishing a digital transmission link with a relay satellite that sends data back to the Beijing control center as it begins to explore the far side of the moon.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The medical staff at Wuhan Union Hospital have been risking their lives fighting the coronavirus. True medical heroes. Great news that 11 medical staff at the hospital who were infected have turned negative for the virus and symptoms were controlled after treatment!4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/pics
IL36R blockade produces impressive early results in Phase I pustular psoriasis trial: Five of seven patients achieved clear or almost clear skin within the first week, following a single dose, and all patients achieved this outcome after four weeks.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Allergic reaction in woman who is allergic to amoxicillin after oral sex with her partner who was taking the drug. A case report.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
🔥 Scientists have discovered enormous termite mounds in Brazil that are visible from space. The insects have been building onto these same mounds for some 4,000 years, so construction began not long after humans built the Pyramids of Giza.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
A tick preserved in amber clutching a dinosaur feather: 99 million year old amber fossil suggests dinosaurs had ticks too.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The power of CAR-T, a therapy where patient T-cells are genetically engineered to destroy tumor cells. 65yo woman, disease refractory to multiple lines of chemo. Then CAR-T: (a) baseline before CAR-T (b) 10 days post CAR-T (c) 60 days post CAR-T. She is in remission more than one year later.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/medizzy
In a first for humankind, China successfully sprouts a seed in a biosphere on the dark side of the Moon5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Hours worked for the same output by the average working class by country. We now do in 7 hours what took us 90 hours a century ago. Why don't we work significantly less?4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/Futurology
Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism - called hemimastigotes - that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
In 1995, artist William Utermohlen was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. Before his death in 2007, he created a series of self portraits, documenting the gradual decay of his mind due to this crippling disease.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/pics
Gerrymandering has gotten so bad in the US that you can buy jewelry shaped to represent the most contorted of districts.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
George, the last of his species of Hawaiian land snail, died on New Year's Day. He was approximately 14 years old.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
🔥 A 37-year-old simiang gibbon on birth control unexpectedly gave birth at the San Diego Zoo5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
This condition is called Mirror Hand Syndrome, less than 100 cases have ever been diagnosed and the cause is still unknown.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
The power of CAR-T, a therapy where patient T-cells are genetically engineered to destroy tumor cells. 65yo woman, disease refractory to multiple lines of chemo. Then CAR-T: (a) baseline before CAR-T (b) 10 days post CAR-T (c) 60 days post CAR-T. She is in remission more than one year later.4yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Scientists have discovered enormous termite mounds in Brazil that are visible from space. The insects have been building onto these same mounds for some 4,000 years, so construction began not long after humans built the Pyramids of Giza.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Combination therapy (autophagy inhibitor + MEK inhibitor) shows promise in pancreatic cancer. Top: blood-borne CA-19, a tumor biomarker, drops after treatment start; bottom: pancreatic bed lesion (red) and liver metastases (white) largely resolve within two months of treatment start.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Reprogramming patient white blood cells to attack tumor cells elicits powerful anti-tumor response. Left, black indicates tumor cells; right, one month after treatment tumor is undetectable.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
r/Sciences - #2 result in Google for science reddit. I continue to be amazed by how quickly this community has grown!5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Biostatisticians report that they receive an alarming number of requests from researchers to conduct inappropriate data analysis.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Scientists develop a mobile app to detect Anemia without the need to bleed - Instead of a blood test, the app uses photos of someone’s fingernails to determine whether the level of hemoglobin in their blood seems low.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Certain species of nocturnal flying squirrel are fluorescent under ultraviolet light. The ecological significance of this trait remains unclear.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Geckos can “walk on water”: high-speed video captures the animals swinging their bodies and tails from side to side and slapping the water with their legs to get themselves going and keep their heads above water.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
If an eye doctor looked at a retinal photo, the chance of getting gender correct would be 50-50. But deep learning training led to an AUC of 0.97. And we have no idea what features machines are seeing the make this possible.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Amateur archaeologist unearths an 1,800-year-old Roman signet ring engraved with the goddess of Victory in a field in Somerset.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/pics
Surface of a comet: The bright dots are background stars, they have that apparent motion as the spacecraft moves and the comet rotates. The streaks are dust particles illuminated by the Sun.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Potential new standard of care for advanced non-small cell lung cancer: addition of pembrolizumab to standard of care chemo regimen halves odds of death in a Phase 3 randomized trial.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/medicine
X-ray of a patient who attempted suicide by injecting themselves with mercury. The patient recovered with oral chelation therapy.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Heart in a box - the system is used to keep organs healthy during transport for transplantation.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Currently, coolers are used to transport organs for transplantation. But the cooler only slows down the organ's deterioration since blood containing nutrients and oxygen stops being supplied to it. A new tech allows for the organ to continue breathing and be supplied with blood during transport.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
The cardiovascular system of a pigeon: a novel, noninvasive imaging method renders blood vessels and capillaries in beautiful detail.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Eczema drug - dupilumab - restores hair growth in patient with longstanding alopecia.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
This weird ribbed oval, known as Dickinsonia, is the oldest known animal. Scientists confirmed its identity as an animal by finding 558-million year old cholesteroid molecules preserved in its fossil.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Multiple myeloma was essentially a death sentence as few as a couple of decades ago. Then proteosome inhibitors, IMIDs etc. changed everything. Can the next wave of BCMA-targeting agents shift the curve upwards even more?5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/medicine
Archaeologists found the remains of a premature baby who was buried in a jar in an medieval cemetery with a coin to “pay” for passage into heaven. The copper from the coin mummified its arm.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
On June 8, 1972 a young girl, Kim Phuc, was severely burned during a napalm attack. The incident was capture in an iconic photograph. A new report describes efforts to finally heal her physical scars.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
Amateur archaeologist unearths an 1,800-year-old Roman signet ring engraved with the goddess of Victory in a field in Somerset.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
“If you see me, weep”. Drought in Hungary is revealing “hunger stones” in the Elbe river. The stones have been used for centuries to commemorate historic droughts — and warn of their consequences.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
This plant is the oldest ever to be regenerated. It was grown from 32,000-year-old seeds - buried by an Ice Age squirrel and unearthed from the permafrost by researchers - beating the previous recordholder by some 30,000 years.5yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
🔥 Phages injecting their DNA into a bacterium. Once inside the DNA will hijack the bacterium, causing it to produce more phages.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
“If you see me, weep”. Drought in Hungary is revealing “hunger stones” in the Elbe river. The stones have been used for centuries to commemorate historic droughts — and warn of their consequences.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/pics
“If you see me, weep”. Drought in Hungary is revealing “hunger stones” in the Elbe river. The stones have been used for centuries to commemorate historic droughts — and warn of their consequences.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
MRI cross-section of the quadriceps of a typical 40 year old in good health vs a typical 70 year old sedentary individual and an active 70 year old individual.6yr ⋅ SirT6 ⋅ r/sciences
