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- Human-robot teams work better when there’s an emotional connection https://news.umich.edu/humans-robot-teams-work-better-when-theres-an-emotional-connection/ 5 comments
- International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/15/international-team-creates-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos/ 24 comments worldnews
- Name the Pakistan-born surgeon among team who made history with pig-to-human heart transplant? https://www.pakimcqs.com/2022/01/name-pakistan-born-surgeon-among-team.html 26 comments pakistan
- The new A-Team: refers to “agile team,” which DARPA refers to as hybrid teams of humans teamed with intelligent machines. https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/29/the-new-a-team-agile-teams-of-machines/ 3 comments technology
- A team of researchers has found in the human gut biome two types of enzymes that together, can transform type A blood to type O blood https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-019-0469-7 4 comments science
- Human-scale invisibility cloak created by father and son team for $150 http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164106-human-scale-invisibility-cloak-created-by-father-and-son-team-for-150 11 comments technology
- South Korean team develops bendable solar cell that's as thin as a human hair http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113414644/flexible-solar-cells-062016/ 29 comments science
- A team of French scientists has started clinical trials on humans for a potential HIV vaccine. http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/star/index_en.cfm?p=128&calledby=infocentre&item=infocentre&artid=30974 9 comments science
- Just a bit to add to the John Terry isn't a terrible human being thing. Account of former youth team player Sam Tillen about what Terry did for the young players of the club. http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/chelsea/109807/former-chelsea-youth-players-candid-account-reveals-another-less-gimpish-side-to-john-terry.html 79 comments soccer
- Human-monkey hybrid embryo created by joint China–U.S. scientist team https://www.newsweek.com/human-monkey-hybrid-embryo-created-joint-chinaus-scientist-team-1584232?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=partnerships 78 comments worldnews
- Chimps chomp on crabs: In world first, Kyoto professor and team observe apes eating aquatic animals - The finding is contrary to the common belief that anthropoid apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, the closest species to humans, do not eat aquatic animals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/30/national/science-health/world-first-kyoto-professor-research-team-observe-chimps-catching-eating-crabs/#.xo_wib7li0m 3 comments worldnews
- [Lewis Hamilton on Instagram]: “Today we won our 100th race! Words can’t describe how it feels to make history with this team of hardworking, driven and passionate human…” https://www.instagram.com/p/cusxvx6le2e/?utm_medium=copy_link 34 comments formula1
- Team of physicists showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v2/n4/full/ncomms1263.html 9 comments science
- How to put a human on Mars: UK team's walkthrough of the designs needed for a human mission to Mars. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23349496 46 comments space
- A protein discovered in fruit fly eyes has brought a Johns Hopkins team closer to understanding how the human heart and other organs automatically "right size" themselves http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100325143231.htm 6 comments science
- Turkey backs Pakistan’s stance on sending team to probe human rights violation in Kashmir http://indianexpress.com/article/world/world-news/turkey-backs-pakistans-stance-on-sending-team-to-probe-human-rights-violation-in-kashmir-2949887/ 7 comments india
- Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History | An international team of scientists, anthropologists, and economists have identified 31 cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage sites across 29 countries that are directly threatened by climate change. http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/stonehenge-easter-island-venice-climate-change-will-destroy-human-history-unesco 56 comments worldnews
- UK scientists seek permission to genetically modify human embryos: Researchers apply for licence months after Chinese team become first to announce they have altered DNA http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/uk-scientists-seek-permission-to-genetically-modify-human-embryos 15 comments technology
- Researchers team has mapped the location and spatial features of blood-forming cells within human bone marrow. Their findings confirm hypotheses about the anatomy of this tissue and provide a powerful new means to study diseases https://news.weill.cornell.edu/news/2023/11/researchers-chart-the-contents-of-human-bone-marrow 3 comments science
- High metabolism is an early sign of Alzheimer’s disease: Researchers now show that a metabolic increase in the mitochondria, the cellular power plants, is an early indicator of the disease. The teams behind the study used mice that developed Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a similar way to humans. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-023-02289-4 2 comments science
- Alex Caruso in the locker room following the Bulls win: “They automatically have the advantage right now. Human nature effect. We win, they lose. They’re going to be the hungrier team just naturally. Enjoy it. Learn from it. We gotta get back to the same mentality” https://streamable.com/jr7sae 169 comments nba
- A research team has demonstrated that members of a group of baboons can establish shared social conventions -- in this case, by all agreeing on how to solve a problem in order to get a reward faster. This is the first time that such conventions have been studied experimentally in non-human primates. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2020.0310 8 comments science
- [Goal] Joachim Low on Ozil : "Mesut leaving the National Team without consulting me beforehand was a great human disappointment for me. The time will come when we will talk or meet again. At some point, the day will come when we will talk things out and put everything aside." https://twitter.com/goal/status/1410244985543270400 831 comments soccer
- [Fabrizio Romano] Neymar: “It’s a great pleasure to extend the adventure at PSG as I'm very happy in Paris. It is a real pride to be part of this team. Here I grew up as a person, as a human being and as a player. So I'm very happy to extend and I hope to win a lot more trophies here”. 🇧🇷🚨 #PSG https://twitter.com/fabrizioromano/status/1391010659014483973?s=21 241 comments soccer
- A team of scientists from Japan have found success in growing small intestinal cells, akin to those found in the human body, from human-induced pluripotent stem cells. They claim that the grown cells can be used for laboratory studies focusing on human small intestinal drug transport and metabolism. https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2021/048927.html 3 comments science
- Haley Smith: “My relationship with mental illness is still active” - Team Canada--- And on a spiritual level, my bike gave me a positive connection to nature and the fundamental, primitive elements of the human experience. In other words, it allowed me to escape my illness for a few hours at a time. https://olympic.ca/2021/01/28/haley-smith-my-relationship-with-mental-illness-is-still-active/?ref=facebookad&fbclid=IwAR0XDimPVVd4J53kQjSWJJR2yd1_VGHI-SR4ep08AO7UTCp9TPZZCGw4IVE 3 comments bicycling
- Indian Teams from Mumbai, Ghaziabad and Punjab Win at NASA's Rover Challenge. Three Indian student teams from universities in Ghaziabad, Mumbai and Punjab win awards at NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge. https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/indian-teams-from-mumbai-ghaziabad-and-punjab-win-at-nasas-rover-challenge-2104737.html 12 comments india
- In a hopeful sign for young boys left sterile by chemotherapy, scientists cryopreserved a pre-pubescent male monkey’s testes and grafted the material back into the monkey later in life. Despite chemo, the monkey conceived a baby girl. It’s the final step before human trials, the team says. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/03/21/frozen-testes-restore-fertility-in-monkeys-offering-hope-to-childhood-cancer-survivors/#.xji1zmhonyu 3 comments science
- Scientists spotted signs that Alzheimer's may be transmissible after taking human growth hormone from cadavers and putting it into mice. Several years ago, the same team showed 8 young people had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after HGH transfusions. Both diseases are amyloid-β related. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/12/13/human-growth-hormone-from-dead-people-may-pass-on-alzheimers/#.xblanhpypom 19 comments science
- “NVIDIA announced Sunday that a team of researchers has built a first-of-its-kind deep learning-based system that allows robots to learn how to do a task by simply watching human beings do that task.” https://www.cnet.com/news/robots-can-now-complete-tasks-by-simply-observing-humans/ 32 comments technology
- We’re a group of scientists representing the Human Cell Atlas, an international team effort to create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells—the fundamental units of life—as a basis for understanding human health as well as diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease. Ask us anything! https://www.genome.gov/20519689/celebrate-dna-day-with-nhgri/ 47 comments science
- A Canadian team have found several brain genes that make wild birds cleverer than others at foraging for food are linked with those making humans intelligent, which provides an insight into the evolutionary mechanisms affecting cognitive traits in a range of animals. http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/3/eaao6369 5 comments science
- The scientific team planning to carry out the world’s first human head transplant have announced the successful repair of severed spinal cords in rats, confirming their proof-of-principle study and showing their technique “works across the board.” http://www.newsweek.com/head-transplant-sergio-canavero-repair-spinal-cord-rats-625689 809 comments science
- Vegetarian diet permanently shaped human genome and may increase risk of heart disease and cancer. Cornell team compare vegetarian population from India to meat-eaters from Kansas. https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/human-genome-shaped-by-vegetarian-diet-increases-risk-of-cancer-and-heart-disease 135 comments science
- Scientist who found new human species accused of playing fast and loose with the truth: The palaeontologist whose team found Homo naledi has been criticised for rushing his findings and making basic errors http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/25/discovery-human-species-accused-of-rushing-errors 5 comments worldnews
- The Rapid Action Battalion – described by Human Rights Watch as a “death squad” that has perpetrated systematic abuses over more than a decade – wanted to see “a practical demonstration” of Hacking Team’s surveillance equipment https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/08/hacking-team-emails-exposed-death-squad-uk-spying/ 22 comments worldnews
- Heads up, World Cup teams, The robots are coming: the machines participating in this month's international RoboCup tournament are making passes and scoring points. Their ultimate goal? To beat the human World Cup champs within the next 35 years. http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20140713/business/140719875/ 4 comments worldnews
- Human Brain Cells Make Mice Smart "A team of neuroscientists has grafted human brain cells into the brains of mice and found that the rodents’ rate of learning and memory far surpassed that of ordinary mice." http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2013/03/07/human-brain-cells-make-mice-smart/#.utjahrtq80e.reddit 107 comments science
- The idea that human ancestors were using stone tools about 3.4 million years ago has been challenged by a Spanish-led team of researchers. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11756602 7 comments science
- Helen Thomas: Obama Ignores Torture. "Many Americans heaved a sigh of relief last January when President Barack Obama banned the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It made the administration look more humane than the Bush-Cheney team. But that is not the whole story." http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23148.htm 25 comments politics