Ancient Brain Surgery, 3D Heart, Supermassive Black Hole

Curiosity Daily

Today you’ll learn about how archaeologists have found evidence of brain surgery from the Bronze era in the Middle East, how 3D-printed hearts are becoming closer to a reality than ever before, and the recent discovery of how a black hole is eating a dust cloud in space.

Ancient Brain Surgery

• “Archaeologists uncover early evidence of brain surgery in Ancient Near East” by Brown University
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141115.htm
• “Cranial trephination and infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean: The evidence from two elite brothers from Late Bronze Megiddo, Israel” by Rachel Kalisher et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281020
• “Ancient Legacy of Cranial Surgery” by Mohammad Ghannaee Arani, Esmaeil Fakharian, and Fahimeh Sarbandi
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3876527/#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20French%20physician,mentally%20ill%20people%20(4).
• “Clues to Bronze Age cranial surgery revealed in ancient bones” by Ari Daniel
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/22/1158721573/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones
• “Curiosities of medical history: Trepanation” by Maria Cohut
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326281

3D Heart

• “Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing” by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141222.htm
• “Soft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling” by LUCA ROSALIA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade2184

Supermassive Black Hole

• “A mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center” by Holly Ober
  • https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole
• “The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole” by Anna Ciurlo et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb344
• “A black hole is destroying this object. Scientists are watching its last days.” by Mark Kaufman
  • https://mashable.com/article/black-hole-destroying-object-milky-way-galaxy

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