Like a spider’s web stops a fly in flight, a patent-pending man-made
fibrous web stops a bedbug in its tracks. Commercialized as Fibertrap,
this material, created in the laboratories of Stony Brook University’s
Center for Advanced Technology in Sensor Materials, has tested effective
not only for trapping bedbugs, but also for stopping termites in their
tracks.
An effective anti-malaria vaccine has been developed by a team of researchers at the Osaka University Research Institute for Microbial Diseases in Japan. The results of clinical trials conducted over a two-year period on location in Uganda, Africa, and published in the U.S. journal PLOS One confirm the BK-SE36 dry powder vaccine lowered the risk of acquiring malaria by a whopping 72 percent.
Most of us don’t immediately associate post traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) with heart attacks, but when we stop and think about it… a
heart attack is a hell-of-a traumatic event, one which could certainly
induce symptoms of PTSD….
Carbon aerogel created by Chinese scientists from Zhejiang University has a measured density of 0.16 mg/cubic centimeter or one-sixth as dense as air! The ultra-light synthetic material is also able to absorb up to 900 times its own weight, offering environmentalists a potentially useful tool for cleaning up oil spills and hazardous waste leaks.
In a recent report published in the Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology, a group of European researchers believes they’ve
found a cure to the graying process.
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Quicker than George Orwell’s ink could dry on the page, "1984"
introduced the world to a whole new level of paranoia that’s kept us
looking over our shoulders for the last sixty years or so. From the "Red
scare" of the 1950s to Presidents justifying unjustifiable wars in the
21st Century, to the Patriot Acts’s reduction of citizen rights — right
up to today’s CCTV cameras surveilling us à la ‘Person of Interest,’ Big Brother has carved out a permanent foothold in our society.
Poultry feather removal machines are commonly used to pluck freshly slaughtered chickens, ducks and geese at China’s urban live poultry markets. Trouble is, hot water steam and spray emanating from the machines could be a transmission vector of the virulent H7N9 bird flu virus.
Got an idea to change the world? Verizon wants to hear it, and it might even get you a cool $10 million.
A Japanese medical research team employing stem cells mixed with patients’ own fat has been able to regenerate up to 90 percent of tissue removed during breast cancer surgery. If adopted as a standard treatment protocol, the procedure could significantly affect the number of radical mastectomies performed and post-surgery prostheses required.
While the vast majority of Japanese medical device designs are insightful, beneficial and, er, normal, a rare few stand out by virtue of their extreme niche applications and distinctive attributes such as borderline inappropriate cuteness. This isn’t always a bad thing, especially if one of these strange and bizarre medical devices is about to be used on you!
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