August72012
A Texas company has successfully tested a ‘spray-on skin’that promises to help wounds heal faster without the need of skin grafts.
Dr. Robert Kirsner at the University of Miami and his colleagues tested the solution of recycled skin and blood-clotting proteins on 228 patients with leg ulcers, or open wounds that are notoriously hard to heal.
The result was “superior healing and a faster time frame than anything else we’ve seen in the treatment of venous leg ulcers,” Kirsner tells MedNews Today.
(Source: theweek.com)
June252012
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In a relationship, one mind revises the other; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love…
Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
” How Love Rewires the Brain (via explore-blog)(Source: , via explore-blog)
June52012
It’s a spectacle that won’t repeat for another century — the sight of the planet Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun. It’s starts tonight around sundown — here’s how and where to watch.
(via smithsonianmag)
May182012
Check this out: Sweet Home Alabama played by ELECTRICITY. Not only is this maybe the awesomest use of Tesla coils to date, but the reason it works is really interesting too. From the creator’s website (but edited for grammar and punctuation…I can’t help it, I’m sorry):
[Tesla coils] create an extremely high frequency voltage at their output. This voltage has enough energy to convert a small part of the air around the coil to a plasma (the purple stuff you can actually see). Now this plasma, when it’s created, forces air out of it’s way as it forms. This creates a pressure wave that propagates away from the spark at the speed of sound.
It’s the same thing that happens with a speaker. The cone moves forward and back, creating a pressure wave we perceive as sound. Cool, eh?
I absolutely love that scientists out there are trying to discover the cure for cancer and other noble things, but damn if I’m not super happy that they’re also playing around with stuff like this.
AWE and then SOME.
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