❤️ Health Tech
💉 New malaria remedy is twelve times more effective than older remedy
A new type of pesticide is up to twelve times as effective as today’s pesticides in killing malaria mosquitoes. 405,000 people died of malaria in 2018 so this could save many thousands of lives.Insecticides usually consist of small crystals that act as a kind of...
🔬 An algorithm can predict who can get tuberculosis and save millions of lives
Ten million people fell ill with tuberculosis last year and 1.4 million people died from the disease. But now there is hope that those numbers will be able to fall in the future. A research team from University College London has created an algorithm that can predict...
🎞 AI can automatically describe images for the blind and visually impaired
There are a lot of pictures on the web and it can be a problem for the blind and visually impaired. They can have the text read out by a digital voice, but information in pictures they often miss. It is possible to enter text that describes the image and which is then...
🦜 Animal prosthetics: 13 animals that were given a new lease on life
What are animal prosthetics made of?Animal prosthetics can be made from a variety of materials depending on the design and need for the prosthetic. For example, some prosthetic limbs can be made from plastic or titanium. They can be either molded or, more commonly,...
