HumansInvent: In places like Singapore, where fresh water is scarce, one method to obtain drinking water is to filter out the salt from seawater. The usual process for doing this is known as reverse osmosis. Using membrane filtration technology, the salt is filtered out and chucked back into the sea. But this is an expensive, […]
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Just because your area of expertise is something exotic like anthropology, doesn’t mean you can’t make a business out of it. A forensic anthropologist from North East England has started his own business to help police identify human remains: A Senior forensics and crime scene lecturer at Teesside University is launching a new digital business
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WorldCrunch: Earlier this week, within hours a photo taken at Xiaogan City High School in Hubei Province China was circulated all over China. In the photo some students were in class reviewing their homework. What is unusual in the picture is that more than half of the 50 or so students had an intravenous infusion
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Fortune Small Business: Shri Thanedar’s job is to help companies beat the competition. His secret? Chemistry. Take Devro, a Columbia, S.C.-based sausage-casing manufacturer that was losing business to a rival with a shinier product. Devro called on Thanedar, whose firm, Chemir, does chemical analysis and manufacturing. After paying Chemir $7,000 to reverse-engineer the competitor’s product,
On this day in 2007, Don Herbert, better known as Mr. Wizard, died. Donald Jeffry Herbert (“Mr. Wizard”) (1917 – 2007) was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and of Mr. Wizard’s World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short
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USA Today: Using cow stem cells grown in a petri dish, the researchers have created small strips of muscle that will be mixed with blood and artificially grown fat to make a hamburger, the BBC writes. Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is being courted to cook “a golf ball-size of this stuff,” physiologist Mark Post of
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Medical Daily: Scientists have created a mouth spray that can instantaneously intoxicate a person for a few seconds without the harmful effects of alcohol. One spray from the “WAHH Quantum Sensations” device is a small lip-stick sized aerosol can is enough for “a few seconds of intoxication,” according to its makers, French designer Philippe Starck
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Fast Company: Taiga Biotechnologies may wipe out blood banks as we know them. The Aurora, Colorado-based startup has developed and licensed stem-cell technologies that can grow an almost limitless supply of red blood cells. If they work (and it’s looking likely) the technologies could be used to provide blood where it’s needed the most—ambulances and
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I don’t understand the science, but Doctor Tipster is reporting that soon we’ll have the ability to make our bodies burn their own fat: A new study reveals the key element related to the activation of brown adipocytes. The cellular activation results in the burning of the fat molecules, instead of storage. This new discovery
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Because who hasn’t burnt their tongue on a slice hot pizza or a sip from McDonald’s coffee, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a dissolvable oral strip that provides instant relief for burns on the tongue. An dissolvable oral strip has been developed to immediately relieve pain from burns caused by
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