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person with prosthetic limb

Health

Spinal cord stimulator dramatically reduces phantom limb pain

Pressure sensors on a prosthetic foot that send electrical pulses to the spinal cord help improve walking stability 鈥� and they also reduce phantom limb pain by an average of 70 per cent

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Close-up of Lithium-ion Cells for High-voltage Electric Vehicle Batteries

Technology

Ultrasound could spot battery defects that might lead to fires

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Technology

Robotic third arm controlled by breathing is surprisingly easy to use

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2R7B07K London, UK. 14th June 2023. UK screenwriters and Writers? Guild Of Great Britain (WGGB) members stage a rally in Leicester Square in solidarity with striking screenwriters in the USA. Credit: Vuk Valcic/Alamy Live News

Technology

Artificial intelligence and climate change were 2023’s twin challenges

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2RFE6YH LK-99 room-temperature revolutionary superconductor. High quality photo

Physics

LK-99 superconductor mania swept the internet for a few weeks in 2023

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A nurse prepares a shot for Jonathan Halter as the German embassy begins its roll out of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines for German expatriates at a Beijing United Family hospital in Beijing, China January 5, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Health

Covid-19 ’emergency’ ended in 2023 but the virus still lingers

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David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Craig S. Kaplan prove that a polykite that we call "the hat" is an aperiodic monotile, AKA an einstein https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/

Mathematics

Mathematicians discovered the ultimate bathroom tile in 2023

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NEW DELHI, INDIA - AUGUST 23: People celebrates after successful landing of Chandrayaan 3 on Moon at Nehru Planetarium on August 23, 2023 in New Delhi, India. The Chandrayaan-3 lander module has successfully touched down on the Moon's south pole, making India the first nation in the world to achieve this feat. India is also the fourth nation, after the United States, China and Russia to have landed on the Moon. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Space

India made history with 2023’s low-budget Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

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2PNBXXP Pack of Ozempic, antidiabetic for weight control, taken in a pharmacy in Niesky, April 13, 2023.

Health

Wegovy and Ozempic made 2023 a revolutionary year for weight loss

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EVROS, GREECE - AUGUST 31: A firefighters runs as wildfire intensifies in the village of Sidiro and Yannuli in Evros, Greece on August 31, 2023. Efforts to extinguish wildfire continues. (Photo by Ayhan Mehmet/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Environment

Why 2023 was almost certainly the hottest year ever recorded

Greenhouse gas levels and the arrival of the El Ni帽o weather pattern pushed the world鈥檚 climate into 鈥渦ncharted territory鈥� in 2023

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Technology

2023 was the year that artificial intelligence went mainstream

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Health

Cancer in young people is rising and 2023 saw a plan to figure out why

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Technology

The spy balloon saga of 2023 inflated US-China political tensions

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Space

Six of the most amazing space pictures from 2023

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