For the first time ever, a child infected with HIV has been declared cured by scientists.
An unnamed two-year-old child in Mississippi no longer shows any detectable levels of HIV following aggressive treatment of antiretroviral drugs in its first days alive, and after receiving no medication for the past 10 months.
via Venture Beat
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When lightning flashes across the sky, you only get a chance to glimpse its fractal form for a split second. But when you send 15,000 volts coursing through plywood, you get a much better look at how it grows. Melanie Hoff, a student at the Pratt Institute in New York City did just that, and the result is a timelapse where you can see the patterns slowly grow out and smolder, like lightning made from molasses.
via Gizmodo
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In the ecosystem gamble of “open” or “closed,” Ford is putting all its chips on open. At this week’s Mobile World Congress, Ford announced it’s releasing the proprietary source code for its Sync AppLink platform to Genivi, an automotive-centric open source alliance.
The announcement follows Ford offering up its Sync AppLink system to competing automakers, and both the Blue … Read More → "Ford goes open source to speed app development"
At midnight tonight, the federal government’s budget sequester kicks in. That means—if congressional leaders and President Obama can’t sort out their disagreements over the country’s finances—$85 billion will be cut from the 2013 budgets for government programs. Space exploration, medical research, and technology investment are just a few of the items on the block.
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This is a short video from Sweden of ice crystals beginning to form on a soap bubble in -30°C (-22°F) temperatures.
via Geekologie
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NASA’s got all kinds of cred when it comes to space, but the very depths of our own planet’s oceans aren’t that much different. So who better to take a deep dive and drudge up the first images of the watery world beneath Antarctica’s ancient glaciers?
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In this awe-inspiring video from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, you can see the Sun’s massive, roiling surface in action. The loops of plasma coming off the star’s surface — known as prominences — are far, far larger than our entire planet.
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Unmanned aircraft crash. In fact, they crash a lot—though there’s no recent specific data, the Congressional Research Service reported last year that despite improvements, “the accident rate for unmanned aircraft is still far above that of manned aircraft.” And while many of those accidents can be attributed to being exposed to hostile fire or operating in conditions when aircraft normally wouldn’t, a significant percentage of drone crashes is caused … Read More → "Pushing the wrong button: Bad button placement leads to drone crashes"
Now in its sixth year, GE Healthcare’s annual competition sees art, science, and discovery converge, with incredibly detailed abstract images the result. The competition is divided into two categories: high-content analysis, and microscopy. It received over 100 entries from researchers based around the world who are investigating conditions including cancer, HIV, and neurodegenerative disease.
via Gizmag
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If you’re one of the many people who hate poking at the tiny virtual keys on smartphone keyboards, then you might like the experimental “airwriting” glove system created by a team of computer scientists at Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. When the glove’s wearer draws letters in the air with their hand, the system can identify which letters are being drawn. Those letters are converted … Read More → "“Airwriting” glove turns arm-waving into text messaging"
