Symmetry Magazine: Physicist Monica Dunford remembers when the CERN press office asked her if she wanted to be interviewed by a visiting documentary film crew. It was 2007, and she had just arrived at CERN as a postdoc on the ATLAS experiment. “I thought I would do this interview and…
Materials Today: Holes help to make sponges and English muffins useful (and in the case of the latter, delicious). Without holes, sponges wouldn’t be flexible enough to bend into small crevices, and muffins wouldn’t be able to sop up the perfect…
Futurity: Researchers report 20 new case studies on the use phage therapy to treat deadly Mycobacterium infections, showing the therapy’s success in more than half of the patients. It’s the largest-ever set of published case studies for therapy using bacteria-killing…
Materials Today: Glucose absorbed from food is the fuel that powers every cell in our bodies. Could glucose also power tomorrow’s medical implants? Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Technical University of Munich in Germany think so. They…
MDDI: There are generally two types of heart valves on the market today: mechanical, and tissue-based prosthetic heart valves. If you get a mechanical heart valve it will probably last you the rest of your life, but you’ll also be…
