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Can Slug Glue Make Stitches Obsolete? 27 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
by Michael Keller When it comes to sealing up surgical cuts and deep wounds, stitches are so last century. Though suture thread is now made of synthetic materials like nylon or absorbable polymers, ...
Burn Scars: Seeing The Aftermath of Wildfires From Above by... 27 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
The Rim Fire in central California sequenced on August 22 by MODIS on NASA's Aqua Satellite. The burn scar from the Yarrabin fire in New South Wales.The fire, which burned from January 6 until Januar...
Science as Art — Bamboo Up Close by Txchnologist... 26 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Science as Art — Bamboo Up Close by Txchnologist staff This is what the surface of bamboo looks like under a scanning electron microscope. The image comes from the “Science as Art” series from the m...
Shaky Dominoes: Hardening Power Grids Against Cascading Failure 26 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
by Charles Q. Choi Ten years ago, a giant power blackout hit the northeast United States and Canada. At the time, it was the second most widespread electricity outage in history. But now researchers ...
Txch This Week: Bridging the Digital Divide, Earth Overshoot Day, and the History of Physics 23 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
by Ysabel Yates This week on Txchnologist, our eyes were set on the Red Planet. We shared some recipes of what future Mars colonizers might whip up in their extraterrestrial kitchens, and got an upda...
Rustling An Asteroid With Cowboy Astronauts by Txchnologist... 23 Aug 2013 | 04:01 pm
This conceptual image shows NASA’s two-person Orion spacecraft approaching the robotic asteroid capture vehicle after traveling nine days from Earth. An astronaut preparing to take samples from the c...
Can Urban Bees Provide Insight Into Colony Collapse Disorder? 22 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
by Ysabel Yates A coroner can’t determine a cause of death without a body. That’s why a mysterious malady called Colony Collapse Disorder has put honeybee researchers in a tough position: Not only do...
Playing With Fire by Txchnologist staff In a recent video, GE... 22 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Playing With Fire by Txchnologist staff In a recent video, GE made fireballs out of balloons filled with a mix of helium and hydrogen to visualize the sun’s power. We just thought we could make some...
Time-Lapse Videos of Aquatic Embryos Give Insight Into... 21 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
Time-Lapse Videos of Aquatic Embryos Give Insight Into Development and Evolution by Ysabel Yates When Oliver Tills needed a way to image aquatic embryo development, he thought an off-the-shelf micro...
Going Vertical by Michael Keller Urban-Think Tank, an... 21 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Going Vertical by Michael Keller Urban-Think Tank, an interdisciplinary design firm focusing on contemporary architecture and urbanism, announced the opening on Aug. 10 of the latest and largest of ...
