These Microneedles Would be So Much Better Than Injections
By using many more, much smaller needles, life could be made better for fragile babies and scaredy-cat adults alike.
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By using many more, much smaller needles, life could be made better for fragile babies and scaredy-cat adults alike.
So far,all of the materials we've used to produce need to be kept at near absolute zero temperatures in order to be superconducting. Well not any more.
Researchers used a technique called Compressed Ultrafast Photography to chase the ball of light.
A Massachusetts courts want to use a pioneering test for identical twins in court.
It looks like the Americans don't have a monopoly in accidentally releasing vials of deadly disease into the world.
The tech could allow computers to trade electrons for photons, amping up their performance considerably.
This "cosmic fridge" could replace air conditioning system all together.
It's one of those urban legends that just won't die. Was Walt Disney actually cryogenically frozen after he died so that he could be reanimated in the future? No.
Scotch tape wasn't invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a university dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper that later became 3M.
And It's all thanks to a group of UK scientists.
Some scientists found that Human eyes do indeed perceive infrared light, but not they same way they perceive ordinary colours. It's weirder than that.
Naloxone can reverse an otherwise fatal heroin overdose within minutes, and Carrie Arnold meets the doctors who put this remarkable drug in the hands of people and saved thousands of lives.
For the first time in history, a theory of what doesn't exist is successfully predicting what does.
Feeling intellectual? Then you'll delight in the fact that Nature has made all of its archived scientific papers free to read, though sadly you can't print them out.
Physicists at the University of Warwick created a new hard-to-eat pasta shape they call anelloni to demonstrate the complicated formations ring-shaped polymers can form when they intertwine.
The Bristol Interaction and Graphics group has used ultrasound to render floating 3D shapes in thin air, creating an object that can be seen and felt.
