For more than 70 years, Paul Alexander — who died aged 78 this week — was kept alive with the help of ‘iron lungs’.
The spooky contraption, created in the 1920s, allowed him to breathe after he was completely paralysed as a child by polio.
It saw him lay flat on his back, with his head resting on a pillow and body encased in the metal cylinder from the neck down.
Polio, known medically as poliomyelitis, does not directly damage
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The Washington Roundtable: This week, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved a step closer to calling for Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden, on the ground that Biden has used the “weaponization of government to benefit his family.” For years, Hunter Biden’s dealings with Ukrainian and Chinese companies have been the focus of Republicans’
You can’t divide the indivisible, unless you use quantum mechanics. Physicists have now turned to quantum effects to split phonons, the smallest bits of sound, researchers report in the June 9 Science.
It’s a breakthrough that mirrors the sort of quantum weirdness that’s typically demonstrated with light or tiny particles like electrons and atoms (SN: 7/27/22). The achievement may one day lead to sound-based versions of quantum computers or extremely sensitive measuring devices. For now, it shows
Die Mechanics Bank aus Walnut Creek, Kalifornien, verlässt das Geschäft mit indirekten Autokrediten, wie ein Sprecher bestätigte Automobil-News.
Das Autofinanzierungsgeschäft der Bank plante, ab Mittwoch keine Kreditanträge mehr anzunehmen, sagte der Sprecher.
Fragen, warum die Bank das Autokreditgeschäft verlässt, beantwortete er nicht.
Die Mechanics Bank sagte in ihrem Jahresbericht 2021, sie biete indirekte Autokredite für Neu- und Gebrauchtwagen an und arbeite mit Franchise- und unabhängigen Händlern in 27 Bundesstaaten zusammen.
Im Brief der Mechanics Bank an die Aktionäre in
Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s foundations do not mirror the world of everyday appearances. At its roots, reality is described by the mysterious set of mathematical rules known as quantum mechanics.
Conceived at the turn of the 20th century and then emerging in its full form in the mid-1920s, quantum mechanics is the math that
