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Today you\u2019ll 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.\xa0

Ancient Brain Surgery

• \u201cArchaeologists uncover early evidence of brain surgery in Ancient Near East\u201d by Brown University
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141115.htm
• \u201cCranial trephination and infectious disease in the Eastern Mediterranean: The evidence from two elite brothers from Late Bronze Megiddo, Israel\u201d by Rachel Kalisher et al.
  • https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0281020
• \u201cAncient Legacy of Cranial Surgery\u201d 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).
• \u201cClues to Bronze Age cranial surgery revealed in ancient bones\u201d by Ari Daniel
  • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/02/22/1158721573/clues-to-bronze-age-cranial-surgery-revealed-in-ancient-bones
• \u201cCuriosities of medical history: Trepanation\u201d by Maria Cohut
  • https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326281

3D Heart\xa0\xa0

• \u201cCustom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing\u201d by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/02/230222141222.htm
• \u201cSoft robotic patient-specific hydrodynamic model of aortic stenosis and ventricular remodeling\u201d by LUCA ROSALIA et al.
  • https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ade2184

Supermassive Black Hole\xa0

• \u201cA mysterious object is being dragged into the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way\u2019s center\u201d by Holly Ober
  • https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/X7-debris-cloud-near-supermassive-black-hole
• \u201cThe Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole\u201d by Anna Ciurlo et al.
  • https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb344
• \u201cA black hole is destroying this object. Scientists are watching its last days.\u201d by Mark Kaufman
  • https://mashable.com/article/black-hole-destroying-object-milky-way-galaxy

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