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Israeli Emergency Bandage
I was first introduced to the Israeli emergency bandage several years ago as a medic in Iraq. It was a huge step up from the standard military dressings that we had been issued. The old military style dressings hadn’t changed since WWII and were not really effective as the canvas ties didn’t always hold the […]
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Israeli Emergency Bandage
I was first introduced to the Israeli emergency bandage several years ago as a medic in Iraq. It was a huge step up from the standard military dressings that we had been issued. The old military style dressings hadn’t changed since WWII and were not really effective as the canvas ties didn’t always hold the […]
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Bacteria Used To Fix Cracked Concrete
An anonymous reader writes “Researchers at the U.K’s University of Newcastle have created a new type of bacteria that generates glue to hold together cracks in concrete structures – that means everything from concrete sidewalks to buildings that have been damaged by earthquakes. When the cells have been germinated, they burrow deep into the concrete […]
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Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles
mmmscience writes “The newly-discovered exoplanet COROT-7b has an unusual form of precipitation: rocks. Because it orbits so close to its sun, the temperature on its sun-facing side is around 4220 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hot enough for rocks to vaporize — not unlike water evaporating on Earth. And, like Earth, when the vapor cools in the […]
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10 Fantastic Futuristic Materials that Actually Exist
Sometimes technology leaps so far ahead it seems like the future has arrived a few years early. When the improvement comes in the area of materials the leap can seem even greater, as the new material can boost the performance of whatever they’re used in. Teflon is a perfect example but it’s not the only […]
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Flexing muscles made of carbon nanotubes
Artificial muscles are likely to be essential components of robotics, prosthetic limbs, and a variety of micro-machinery. Quite a few designs are out there, involving materials like carbon nanotubes and silicon elastomers but, to one degree or another, these usually fail to operate as well as natural human muscles. In today’s issue of Science, University […]
