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Injectable Pacemaker, Starving Black Holes, Bat Blood Sugar

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about an injectable pacemaker that dissolves after 5 days, how a black hole is starving a galaxy to death, and the bats with record-high blood sugar levels.  

 

Injectable Pacemaker 

 

 

Black Hole Starves 

 

 

Bat Blood Sugar 

 

 

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0:00.0

Time flies when you learn super cool stuff and that's what's about to happen here on

0:08.2

Curiosity Daily from Discovery. I'm Nate.

0:11.1

Guys welcome back we have some really fun stories for you today I'm super excited and I'm Nate. Guys, welcome back. We have some really fun stories for you today.

0:14.0

I am super excited and I am Callie.

0:16.0

Today you'll learn about an injectable pacemaker that dissolves after five days,

0:20.0

how a black hole is starving a galaxy to death, and the bats with record high blood sugar

0:26.5

levels.

0:27.5

Okay, but I relate to these bats so hard.

0:29.8

I can't wait for you to hear about it.

0:32.0

When most of us hear the word pacemaker,

0:33.7

we conjure up images of operating rooms

0:36.1

and super invasive, but life-saving open heart surgeries,

0:40.2

and all the things that come with getting

0:42.0

an electrical device implanted to keep your heart beating.

0:45.0

Yeah, I know that pacemakers can be literal lifesavers and they give folks with heart issues their normal lives back,

0:52.0

but the implantation process is easy as it could be,

0:55.7

doesn't sound like fun.

0:57.7

Not only that, but the equipment and the resources to implant such a device might not always be available in an emergency and

1:04.6

for anyone suffering from arrhythmia where the heart beats irregularly

1:08.7

sometimes minutes can be the difference between life and death so So a team of researchers at Lund University in

1:14.4

Sweden have developed a new kind of pacemaker that is unlike anything you can imagine.

1:19.2

Whoa, okay, so what is it like a tiny machine or a nanobot?

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