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1/ I'm a cardiologist. I've practiced for twenty-five years, through a lot of "breakthroughs" that turned out to be press releases. So understand the weight of what I'm about to say: I have never seen a single week in medicine like the one we just lived through.
In the span of a few days, four separate scientific breakthroughs landed. The stock market treated them as four unrelated stories and sent a handful of biotech companies soaring. But that's the shallow read. Look closer and they are not four stories at all. They are four faces of the same story — the biggest shift in medicine since the discovery of antibiotics.
Medicine is becoming programmable. Individualized. Written for one human being instead of the average of millions.
Let me walk you through exactly what happened, in plain language, and show you where this is actually headed. Because the future arrived quietly this week, and most people scrolled right past it.
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“To all those of you, struggling with your own demons…”
Martin Lewis’ acceptance speech as he received the Special Award on 10 May at this year's BAFTA TV awards.
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Scientists knew this moon existed before they ever saw it. They spotted these waves in Saturn's rings in 2005 and realized something had to be making them. They did the math and found it. The moon is about the size of Mount Everest.
It's called Daphnis. About 5 miles across, shaped like a frozen potato, orbiting inside a 26-mile-wide gap in Saturn's brightest ring. As it moves through, its gravity yanks on the ice along the edges of that gap, pulling chunks up and letting them fall back down. Those are the waves in the photo. They rise almost a mile above the rest of the ring.
Saturn's rings are huge. Stretched end to end, they'd go three-quarters of the way from Earth to the Moon. They're also absurdly thin. In places, they're about 30 feet top to bottom. The height of a three-story house. If you shrunk the whole ring down to the size of a football field, it would be thinner than a piece of paper. So a mountain-sized moon is pushing mile-high walls of ice out of a sheet thinner than paper.
This is also how planets get built. When a new star is born, it's surrounded by a thin, spinning pancake of dust and ice. If a chunk of rock in that pancake grows big enough, its gravity starts sweeping material out of its path, carving a gap. Do that for a few hundred million years and you've got a planet. What the Cassini spacecraft photographed at Saturn is that exact process, happening in miniature, right now. Telescopes on Earth have spotted the same ring-and-gap patterns around other young stars, where baby planets are carving gaps just like Daphnis is here.
Saturn's rings are also young. Maybe 100 to 200 million years old, which means they formed during the age of dinosaurs. And Cassini's data showed they're disappearing. Ice is raining down onto Saturn fast enough to empty them out in another 100 million years. We happen to be alive during one of the only windows in Saturn's history when any of this exists.
Went to Autodrome de Linas Montlhery to see the holy grail line up of Renault 21 Turbo's. Did not disappoint.
Ice land speed record car
88 superproduction
89 superproduction
Gouhier Europa Cup
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA
ALT Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA
ALT A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA
ALT A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA
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Atoms, captured in the highest resolution ever.
What you’re looking at is praseodymium orthoscandate (PrScO₃), magnified 100 million times. Each dot in the image represents a single atom, locked into a crystal lattice.
It may look slightly blurry – but that’s not a flaw. Atoms never sit still. They vibrate constantly due to thermal motion, and this image captures them in their natural, restless state.
The milestone was achieved using a technique called ptychography, a form of electron interferometry. By analyzing how electrons scatter when they bounce off atoms, researchers reconstructed an image with unprecedented precision – pushing atomic imaging to its theoretical limits.
Here’s what you’re seeing:
◦ Praseodymium atoms – bright blobs appearing in pairs
◦ Scandium atoms – single bright blobs
◦ Oxygen atoms – faint red dots
[📷 Cornell University]
DaveL485 retweeted
We didn’t LiCo into and through a qualifying lap back then. But as the intercoolers, turbos, and motors melted with 1300 bhp at the start of the lap, we probably had 400bhp less by the end of that one lap, and the qually tyres were good for about half of that. And Senna managed this massive variability better than anybody else in a car that inherently wanted to crash, and would hurt you badly if it did. He was my kind of champion.
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When manufacturers sell a 2TB SSD, they calculate storage using the decimal system. To them, 1TB equals 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. So 2TB means 2 trillion bytes.
But your operating system (Windows, macOS, Linux) doesn’t count storage that way. It uses the binary system, where 1TB (technically 1 TiB) equals 1,099,511,627,776 bytes.
So when your OS converts those same 2 trillion bytes into binary units, it shows:
2,000,000,000,000 ÷ 1,099,511,627,776 ≈ 1.8 TB
It’s just two different measurement standards fighting each other.
On top of that, a tiny bit of space is also used for file systems, formatting, and system metadata, which makes the number look slightly smaller again.
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Riccardo Adami, Lewis Hamilton's race engineer, has moved to a new role with the Ferrari Academy.
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My MP salary donation this month is going to Caister Lifeboat - they are completely independent.
Funding state-of-the-art waterproof headsets that the team have been after for ages.
Proper people doing a proper job for their community.
Delighted I can help.
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Immense planning and technical precision was required for this absolutely preposterous (but real) view: I captured my friend @BlackGryph0n transiting the sun during a skydive.
This might be the first photo of it's kind in existence. See a video of this moment in the reply 👇
