Robots with football skills ⚽️🤖 Footballing robots have had an upgrade. Two-legged robots trained using deep reinforcement learning, which is driven by artificial intelligence, can walk, turn to kick a ball and get up after falling faster than robots working from scripted lessons. Tap link in bio to learn more #robot, #football, #robotics, #AI, #Artificialintelligence #STEM, #science, #learnontiktok, #sciencefacts

How is this medical device racially biased?🤚🏾🤚🏻⁠ ⁠ The UK government-commissioned review into the equity of medical devices was set up in 2022 after pulse oximetres were thrown into the spotlight during Covid-19 amidst concerns of the accuracy of their readings. Researchers are now calling for urgent action to be taken as the report has concluded that pulse oximetres actually overestimate the amount of oxygen in the blood of people with dark skin. ⁠ ⁠ Those errors can have real clinical consequences as blood oxygen is one of the key vital signs doctors use to determine whether someone needs to receive oxygen or be admitted to the hospital. ⁠ ⁠ So what can be done about it? Well researchers and engineers, predominantly in the US are working towards improving the accuracy of the device in a variety of ways. Some by correcting for skin tone, others by changing the wavelength of light passed through. Whether any of these strategies will fix the bias n pulse oximetres remains to be seen but hopefully the government’s response to the report of the equity in medical devices, will encourage a better understanding of the inequities inherent in this devices as well as a hunt for solutions. ⁠ ⁠ Tap the link in bio to learn more ⁠ ⁠ #medicaldevicebias #pulseoximeter #health #racialbias ⁠

The cure for tinnitus? 🔊🦻 Tinnitus is one of the most common long-term medical conditions, affecting 10 per cent of young adults and up to 24 per cent of older adults. The sounds can be intrusive and distracting, sometimes leading to depression, anxiety and difficulties sleeping. They can also interfere with hearing. The good news is that a better understanding of the underlying causes of tinnitus are leading to novel treatments. One such treatment targets cochlea nerve fibres and synapses, coaxing them to regrow. Another turns down overactivity in the cochlear nucleus. Tap link in bio to learn more #hearing, #cochlea, #ear, #hearing, #hearingloss, #science, #tinnitus, #nerves, #neuroscience, #learnontiktok, #STEM, #sciencefacts,

How do you destroy a black hole? 🕳️🧨 Kicking off a brand new series of Dead Planets Society, Chelsea Whyte and Leah Crane take on the universe's most powerful supervillains. With the help of their cosmic toolbelt and blackhole astronomer Allison Kirkpatrick from the University of Kansas, they test all the destructive ideas they can think of. Whether it’s throwing masses of TNT at it, blasting it with a t-shirt gun full of white holes, loading it up with a multiverse worth of matter, or sending it back in time - they try everything to kill a black hole. Will they succeed? Dead Planets Society is a podcast that takes outlandish ideas about how to tinker with the cosmos – from punching a hole in a planet to unifying the asteroid belt to destroying the sun – and subjects them to the laws of physics to see how they fare. Tap link in bio to listen to the full episode and more #sciencepodcast #science #universe #space #sciencefacts #newscientist #planets #gravity #blackhole #podcast, #STEM, #learnontiktok

How to watch the Lyrids meteor shower ☄️🌃 The Lyrids meteor shower is expected to be active from the 15th to the 29th of April, peaking between the evening of the 21st and the morning of the 22nd. To see the Lyrids, like any meteor shower, the best time to look is just after midnight local time. And you don't have to look in any particular direction but the meteors will appear from the constellation Lyra. On a moon-free night, you can expect 10 to 15 meteors every hour during the Lyrids shower, and try to avoid other sources of light pollution like bright lights and street lights. Tap link in bio to learn more #stargazine, #lyrids, #meteors, #space, #astronomy, #stars, #skyatnight, #science, #night, #STEM, #learnontiktok, #sciencefacts