At least one person has reportedly undergone the cutting-edge technique. Suspended animation involves replacing patients’ blood with cold saline fluid for up to two hours, before their hearts are restarted. Doctors have yet to reveal whether the trials have been fully successful. Dr Samuel Tisherman, who is leading the trial […]
Daily Archives: November 21, 2019
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The FLOTUS was out on duty again and posted to her millions of followers on Twitter. She visited the Red Cross with the Second Lady, Karen Pence. They donated comfort kits for the troops. On Twitter she wrote: “It was an honor to return to the @RedCross today with @SecondLady […]
Jon M. Chu, who directed last summer’s rom-com blockbuster “Crazy Rich Asians,” is denying Brenda Song’s claim that she was told she wasn’t “Asian enough” to audition for the film. Song, best known for her role as London Tipton on Disney Channel’s “The Sweet Life of Zack and Cody,” told […]
Washington (AFP) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Iranians on Thursday to send photos and other information documenting repression amid ongoing protests, while vowing to sanction “abuses” by the Islamic republic. Demonstrations erupted in sanctions-hit Iran last Friday, hours after the price of gasoline spiked by as much […]
BREMEN, Germany — The International Telecommunication Union on Nov. 20 said the world’s spectrum regulators had reached consensus on milestones for constellations of satellites outside of the geosynchronous arc to preserve their spectrum rights. Regulators meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference this month said that for […]
Martin Lewinson/Flickr You may have seen the aftermath of a landslide, driving along a twisty mountain road—a scattering of rocks and scree impinging on the pavement. And up until now, that’s pretty much how scientists have tracked landslides—roadside observations and spotty satellite images. Now, researchers are hoping to track landslides […]
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – The first foreign asylum-seeker arrived in Guatemala on Thursday from El Paso, Texas, under a U.S. agreement that establishes it as a so-called safe third country to process people fleeing persecution in their homelands. Guatemalan migrants walk on the tarmac after being deported from U.S., at […]
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. Army is undertaking a security assessment of China-owned social media platform TikTok after a Democratic lawmaker raised national security concerns over the app’s handling of user data, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said on Thursday. FILE PHOTO: A person holds a smartphone with Tik Tok […]