Science Summary: Hospital develops 3D printed prosthetics; Falcon 9 rocket lifted and more


Devdiscourse News Desk | Updated: 06-03-2019 11:03 IST | Created: 06-03-2019 10:27 IST
Science Summary: Hospital develops 3D printed prosthetics; Falcon 9 rocket lifted and more
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Following is a summary of current science news briefs. MSF-run hospital develops 3D printed prosthetics for war victims

A hospital in Jordan has given a victim of Yemen's war new hope for the future, thanks to the cutting edge technology of 3D printed prosthetics. 21-year-old Abdullah Ayed lost one arm and badly damaged the other when his home in Aden was hit by an explosive in 2017. SpaceX rocket with unmanned U.S. capsule blasts off for space station

A SpaceX rocket with an unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk's space company and NASA's long-delayed goal to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil later this year. SpaceX's 16-foot-tall (4.9 meters) Crew Dragon capsule, atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 2:49 a.m. (0749 GMT), carrying a test dummy nicknamed Ripley. Body language: The Russian science keeping North Korea's dead leaders looking fresh

Perhaps none of the communist legacies shared by Vietnam and North Korea highlighted during Kim Jong Un’s “goodwill visit” to Hanoi is stranger than the embalmed leaders on display in their capital cities, and the secretive team of Russian technicians that keeps the ageing bodies looking ageless. Kim laid a wreath outside Ho Chi Minh’s mausoleum in the Vietnamese capital on Saturday, after the conclusion of his shortened summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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