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BMI alternative for identifying obesity ‘could prevent misdiagnosis in millions’

Combining body mass index with other measurements and tests would lead to better care and outcomes, experts say An alternative to BMI for diagnosing obesity could prevent misdiagnosis in millions of people worldwide, according to doctors who found it more accurately distinguished healthy people from those with harmful excess body fat. Medical experts have long considered body mass index a blunt instrument for defining obesity, leading to concerns that substantial numbers of people with excess body fat are missed while others who are healthy are wrongly diagnosed. Continue reading...

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Ciencia

El cohete espacial en el que podría haber estado explota: la mejor fotografía de Rhiannon Adam

“Me eligieron para dar la vuelta a la Luna en una nave espacial SpaceX. Los preparativos se apoderaron de mi vida. Luego, cuatro minutos después de observar un cohete en un vuelo de prueba, se rompió. Y ese fue el final de mi aventura”. Esta fotografía fue tomada el 20 de abril de 2023 desde la sección VIP del área de observación del lanzamiento de SpaceX, mirando desde South Padre Island, Texas, hacia Boca Chica, una reserva natural cerca de la frontera con México que alberga la plataforma de lanzamiento Starbase de SpaceX. En 2021, otros siete civiles y yo fuimos seleccionados de una convocatoria abierta para dar la vuelta a la Luna en un vuelo gratuito de SpaceX Starship financiado por la b japonesa

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Internacional

How years of research built Grand Theft Auto VI’s obsessively detailed world

The developers behind its virtual Florida share how they built their most ambitious world so far • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here In 2015, a group of Grand Theft Auto developers from Rockstar North took their first trips to Miami to do field research for the next game in the phenomenally popular crime series. “Before you’re doing hyper-organised research trips, you’re immersing yourself in the place and its history, the vibe of it,” Rob Nelson, one of the lead developers on GTA VI, tells me. “[You see] the physical places you want to move characters through, th

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Ciencia

Molecular signal in blood helps detect early risk for ovarian cancer, study finds

Researchers discover a potential diagnostic breakthrough for a disease often ⁠discovered after it has already spread A molecular signal in the blood helps identify microscopic changes that precede development of ovarian cancer, researchers have found, ⁠a potential diagnostic breakthrough for a disease often ⁠discovered after it has already spread. For decades, ​efforts to detect ovarian cancer earlier have focused on finding smaller tumors, the researchers noted in their report published on Tuesday in Nature Medicine. Continue reading...

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Defensa

AI datacentres plan on-site power stations on huge scale despite climate risks, research reveals

181GW of gas-fired capacity proposed for sites in US and Europe because of delays in connecting to national grids, says report Developers of AI datacentres plan to build on-site climate-destroying gas power stations on a huge scale to meet their energy demands, research reveals. Datacentres planned across the US, the UK and mainland Europe have proposals to build fossil fuel plants on-site to create 181GW of gas-fired capacity because of delays to connect to national grids, according to the findings. This is almost four times the total peak electricity demand of Great Britain. Continue reading

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Criptomonedas

SpaceX 擬砸 240 億美元在德州蓋燃氣電廠與超算中心

德州 Starbase 市政府公告，SpaceX 計畫在 444 英畝土地上興建燃氣電廠與超級運算設施，初期投資約 240 億美元，市議會 12 月 9 日審議減稅；預定地今年夏天才脫離已實施資料中心暫停令的布朗斯維爾市。 這篇文章 SpaceX 擬砸 240 億美元在德州蓋燃氣電廠與超算中心 最早出現於 鏈新聞 ABMedia。

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