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Researchers from Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK have found a solution to the deadly cobra venom that kills 1.38 billion people every year — a solution that could also help the more than 5 million people bitten by cobras every year.Australian researchers have found that the common blood-thinning drug heparin “may significantly reduce the devastating necrotic damage caused by cobra bites and potentially improve survival by slowing the progression of envenomation.” The anticoagulants act as “decoy” antidotes that flood the bite site with “decoy” heparin-like molecules that can counteract toxins in the venom that damage tissue and cause…

Jojo Wilden/Prime Video The TV adaptation of “Fallout” and Donald Glover and Maya Erskine’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” were both nominated for Emmys in drama categories on Wednesday. Amazon MGM Studios CEO Jennifer Salke TV station manager Vernon Sanders It’s a celebration of Amazon’s unprecedented position with two shows up for the top award this year. Salke and Sanders variety The 62 total nominations for Amazon and MGM Studios have been announced, including other nominees from the studio, such as Fallout with 17 nods, Mr. & Mrs. Smith with 16 nods, and the LGBTQ romantic comedy Red, White and Royal…

The British Open kicks off at Royal Troon.The final major championship of the year got underway in Scotland on Thursday morning, with cold, windy and wet conditions expected throughout the week. Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler is the overwhelming favorite to winThere are plenty of other players who could have a shot at winning the Claret Jug on Sunday afternoon, including early-stage Justin Thomas, who hasn’t won since winning the 2022 PGA Championship but shot a 3-under 68 to take the clubhouse lead.Tiger Woods is Back on the job this week After struggling at the U.S. Open last month, He fought back…

Via Sheikh Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum/Instagram Sheikha Maala bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum shared the photo on Instagram. CNN — The daughter of the Dubai ruler appeared to announce the divorce on social media, an unusual move for a UAE princess. of Instagram account Sheikha Mahra bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, daughter of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai, has announced her intention to separate from her husband, who is also a member of the royal family. “I hereby declare divorce,” Sheikha Mara, 30,…

OpenAI today announced a lower-cost “mini” model that will allow more companies and programs to take advantage of its service. artificial intelligenceThe new model, called GPT-4o mini, which is available starting today, is 60% cheaper than OpenAI’s cheapest existing model while offering better performance, the company says.Open AI The company cast the move as part of an effort to make AI “as widely available as possible,” but it also reflects growing competition among AI cloud providers and growing interest in small, free, open-source AI models. Meta plans to launch the largest version of its highly capable free service, Llama 3,…

To start your adventure Hinterberg Dungeon Achievements Today, after spending some time on our list, Upcoming Game Pass Gamesthe dungeon-packed, monster-slaying action RPG, will be available on day one of the service. We had a chance to speak with the team at Microbird Games, who answered all of our questions about the game’s achievements, their design process, and what an ideal achievement list would be. Dungeons of Hinterberg Xbox Achievements Interview!Microbird Games states that “it’s much better to let players do something interesting once than to make them do something mundane over and over again.””We believe that achievements shouldn’t depend…

NASA’s VIPER (short for Volatile Investigation Polar Rover) sits assembled inside a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Image: NASA/Helen Arace Vargas NASA announced Wednesday that it is canceling the VIPER (Volatile Investigation Polar Rover) project. This is the second time in less than a decade that the space agency has canceled plans for a roving spacecraft to search for water ice on the moon. The decision comes six years after the cancellation of a similar mission, Resource Prospector. The 430-kilogram (948-pound) rover is designed to fly to the moon’s south pole aboard Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s Griffin lander, the company’s…

A German man has likely been cured of HIV, a medical milestone that only six other people have achieved more than 40 years after the AIDS epidemic began. The German man, who wishes to remain anonymous, was treated for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a stem cell transplant in October 2015. He stopped taking antiretroviral drugs in September 2018 and is in viral remission without rebound. Multiple ultrasensitive tests have not detected any viable HIV in his body.”A healthy person has many wishes, but a sick person has only one,” the man said in a statement about his recovery.The case,…

Just as ChatGPT generates text by predicting the most likely words in a sequence, new artificial intelligence (AI) models can create new proteins from scratch that don’t occur in nature.Using their new model, ESM3, the scientists created a new fluorescent protein that shares just 58% of its sequence with naturally occurring fluorescent proteins, they said in a study published in a preprint on July 2. bioRxiv databaseA representative from EvolutionaryScale, a company founded by former meta-researchers, also provided more details on June 25th. statement.The research team: A smaller version of the model The company plans to make larger versions of…

Senior Digital Editor/Producer, WCVB.com Massachusetts confirms first measles case since 2020 Health officials say the cases are linked to international travel. Last updated: July 18, 2024 10:33 AM EST Global alert for measles. Hospitals here say they are on high alert for early signs of an outbreak. To explain is Dr. Kristen Moffatt, infectious disease specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctor, it’s nice to see you. You know what I mean. It’s kind of weird to say measles. It’s still 2024. And by the way, the CDC also issued a national advisory this week. So what does that change for…