A Brazilian pilot survived four days in the jungle eating biscuits and drinking water after crashing his farm aircraft. The man was rescued on November 7 in Peixoto de Azevedo, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. As reported by the Brazilian website G1, initially the information given was that the accident had occurred [...]
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Spiral-shaped robots that can travel through an eyeball to deliver medicine were created by a joint Chinese-German research team. The microbots were created using nanoscale 3D printing, a technique capable of producing items 200 times smaller than the width of a human hair. [...]
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The offensive of hackers and telematic scammers against the audience of millions of users who have connected devices does not stop. Whether it is a smartphone, a PC or a tablet, no device that uses the network - as we have been repeating for some time now at the "Rights Desk" - is immune from fraud attempts by [...]
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A French woman with cystic fibrosis since childhood died of lung cancer after receiving those organs in a transplant. After a rapid deterioration in his respiratory functions, typical of cystic fibrosis, the doctors decided, in November 2015, to perform a lung transplant. The donor was a smoker. The study published [...]
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Xylella is spreading throughout Europe, in particular in France, Spain and Germany and it is certainly no longer a problem only in Italy and much less in Puglia. Now the bacterium has been identified for the first time in Dutch territory, where an outbreak has been ascertained in a garden of a building in [...]
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A new rehabilitation protocol for paraplegic patients devised in Switzerland has allowed three wheelchair-bound patients to resume walking. The three had been injured in the spinal cord several years ago (between four and seven years old). The rehabilitation protocols they benefited from combine electrical stimulation [...]
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