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Can An Eye Movement Test Assess Your Brain Age?
A new study shows how University of Liverpool researchers have used a newly developed eye movement test to improve the understanding of how parts of the brain work. Healthy, older adults are widely reported to experience cognitive decline, including impairments in inhibitory control (the ability to stop ourselves thinking or doing things). However, because …
Guardant Health and Amgen to Develop CDx Test for AMG 510 in KRAS G12C+ NSCLC
To support the commercialization of the blood-based companion diagnostic (CDx) test Guardant360 CDx for AMG 510, Guardant Health, Inc, will collaborate with Amgen, developer of AMG 510, and pursue an FDA Pre-Market Approval as a CDx for AMG 510 in patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a KRAS G12C mutation, according to a press …
Pocahontas Heacham mulberry tree DNA test ‘inconclusive’
Image copyright Carolyn Johnson Image caption The tree (far right) is planted at Heacham Manor Hotel in Norfolk Tests aiming to establish the truth of a legend claiming that Pocahontas planted a mulberry tree in Norfolk have proved inconclusive. The Native American travelled to England in 1616 with husband John Rolfe after helping save a …
U.S. officials bracing for imminent North Korea intercontinental ballistic missile test.
President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un shake hands before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images Pete Buttigieg’s Campaign Says This Wikipedia User Is Not Pete. So Who Is It? Trump Is Freaked Out by Christianity Today’s Support for Impeachment Documents Show Ukraine Aid Freeze …
Boeing Starliner launches crucial test flight, but encounters a problem after liftoff
NASA said plans for the capsule to rendezvous with the space station Saturday had been canceled and that the Starliner would attempt to land in the New Mexico desert on Sunday. The mission had been scheduled to last eight days. There were no crew members aboard the flight, the first for the Boeing spacecraft in …
Hong Kong protests test Beijing’s ‘foreign meddling’ narrative
Image copyright Getty Images A few months ago a Chinese official asked me if I thought foreign powers were fomenting Hong Kong’s social unrest. “To get so many people to come to the streets,” he mused, “must take organisation, a big sum of money and political resources.” Since then, the protests sparked at the beginning …
Seafloor scar of Bikini A-bomb test still visible
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionDr Art Trembanis: “The crater speaks to just terrible, awesome forces” The date was 25 July 1946. The location – Bikini Atoll. The event – only the fifth A-bomb explosion and the first-ever detonation under water. The pictures we’ve all seen: A giant mushroom cloud climbing out …
North Korea claims to have conducted rocket test
A spokesman for North Korea’s Academy of the National Defense Science said the test was carried out at Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in Tongchang-ri, a site near the Chinese border that has been used to launch satellites into space in the past. The United Nations bans North Korea from launching satellites, viewing it as a …
Startups Use Renewables-Rich UK to Test Power Electronics Technologies at Scale
Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. But the providers of such technologies have faced challenges moving past pilot projects and into real-world utility deployments. A few contenders have managed …
Sewer technology passes the sniff test – UQ News
University of Queensland monitoring technology to identify potential odour and corrosion hotspots in urban sewerage networks has been adopted by ASX-listed environmental management technology firm Envirosuite. The SeweX technology uses mathematical modelling to predict odour and corrosion hotspots and to optimise mitigation strategies in sewer mains, and was developed by researchers from UQ’s Advanced Water …
