| Lyon star Martin Terrier collapses on pitch in horror health scare during Ligue 1 game with Toulouse
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 LYON players looked on visibly distressed as young winger Martin Terrier collapsed during the Ligue 1 game with Toulouse. The 22-year-old fell to the turf during the 20th minute of the game at Groupama Stadium on Sunday. Terrier received medical attention for a number of minutesReutersThe forward was then stretchered off to a standing ovationAFP or licensors Medics rushed onto the pitch to treat Terrier and he was eventually taken off on a stretcher. The likes of Moussa Dembele appeared upset at the horror episode their teammate had suffered with no other player nearby. More to follow
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| Boeing quits DARPA spaceplane project
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| Aerospace giant Boeing recently pulled out from the futuristic spaceplane program it was working on alongside US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).According to an article on the New York post website that was originally published by BGR, Boeing issued in a statement that it has decided to re-allocate the resources engaged in the spaceplane program into other areas.The Boeing statement provided by the New York Post reads, "We will now redirect our investment from XSP to other Boeing programs that span the sea, air and space domains. We're proud to have been part of a DARPA-led industry team that collaborated to advance launch-on-demand technology. We will make it a priority to harvest the significant learnings from this effort and apply them as Boeing continues to seek ways to provide future responsive, reusable access to space."Boeing previously ousted rivals such as Northrop Gruman for the opportunity to participate in various phases of the program and bagged a ...
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| Hills Ridges and Tracks on Mars
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 Sometimes, even rovers on Mars stop to admire the scenery. Just late last November the Curiosity rover on Mars paused to photograph its impressive surroundings. One thing to admire, straight ahead, was Central Butte, an unusual flat hill studied by Curiosity just a few days before this image was taken.
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| Bacteria in household dust can spread superbug genes: Study
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| Bacteria living in household dust can spread genes that provide antibiotics countering ability to others, according to a study which may lead to new interventions to tackle drug resistance in microbes. Although most bacteria are harmless, the study, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, said these genes could potentially spread to disease causing, pathogenic microbes, making infections more difficult to treat. "This evidence, in and of itself, doesn't mean that antibiotic resistance is getting worse," said Erica Hartmann, study co-author from Northwestern University in the US. "It's just one more risk factor. It's one more thing that we need to be careful about," Hartmann added. According to the study, bacteria can share their genes either by dividing, or via horizontal gene transfer in which a bacterium makes a copy of its genes, and swaps them with a neighbour. The primary method for spreading antibiotic resistance genes among species, the researchers said, is by horizontal gene .
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| Largest high-resolution brain connectivity map published by Google
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| In a fascinating and path-breaking development, a group of scientists has produced the most detailed, high-resolution 3D map of brain connectivity for any animal to date.The model -- which is published by a collaboration between scientists from Google and FlyEM team from Janelia Research Campus, Virginia -- visually represents nearly 20 million synapses linking 25,000 neurons in a fruit fly's brain.According to The Verge, the map can be considered a landmark in connectomics, a spere of technology that utilizes advanced imaging techniques to trace the brain's physical pathways.The fruit fly possesses a brain roughly the size of a poppy seed, and the scientists decided to map one-third of it. Till now only the C. Elegans roundworm has got it's entire nervous mapped in this manner.A milestone without a doubt, this seemingly tiny task turned out to be a laborious one, that demanded the use of peak tier technologies along with countless hours of human effort.The fruit fly's brain was first
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| Weekend Picks: light reading for STEM majors
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| The weekend is upon us, and so is the paralysis that comes with having nothing to do. Fear not, our editorial team picked 9 books on science and tech worth picking up on a cold winter day. You'll learn about the history of space exploration, join a physicist on a surprisingly science-appropriate hike, and more. Read more →
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| Signepupina
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 Signepupina worsfoldi, copyright Femorale. Belongs within: Cyclophoroidea. Signepupina is a genus of small operculate snails with a smooth, glossy shell found in northeastern Australia (Stanisic et al. 2010). Characters (from Stanisic et al. 2010): Shell very small to small in size (up to 12 mm in height); highly polished and glassy, generally pupiform in shape but turbinate as juveniles; whorls rounded to flat in adults, angulate in juveniles, sutures weakly impressed to flat; imperforate as adults but juveniles generally possess a narrow umbilicus; aperture circular in shape, lip thickened and reflected; anterior and posterior breathing canals present, often with accompanying ridges and flanges (auricles) and in some cases considerably elaborated; operculum circular, corneous, thin and multispiral. Colour varies from creamy white to bright yellow, and pale pink to reddish brown. <==Signepupina Iredale 1937 (see below for synonymy) SS10 |--S. meridionalis (Pfeiffer 1864) (see below for synonymy) SS10 ...
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