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Building and training human tendons in the lab

Futurum

Professor Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy , based at the University of Oxford in the UK, is taking this a step further with tendon building, by using humanoid robotic arms and soft bioreactor chambers to ‘train’ tendons to deal with the stresses they will encounter in the human body. They often lead to pain and prolonged periods of disability.”.

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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Astrophysicists Professor Raja GuhaThakurta and Dr Amanda Quirk , from the University of California Santa Cruz , USA, are studying starlight to explore the mysteries of our two neighbouring galaxies, Andromeda and Triangulum. Professor Raja GuhaThakurta and Dr Amanda Quirk are galactic explorers. SUPERNOVA – the explosion of a star.

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Examining the extremely small

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Scientific research is so complex that it is impossible for a single research group to do everything by themselves,” says Professor Alexander Urban from the Faculty of Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU). How are researchers benefiting from CeNS? This results in creative and innovative ideas.” What is DNA origami?

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Shining a light on the role of trace metals in neurodegenerative diseases

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Professor Joanna Collingwood is the Head of the Trace Metals in Medicine Laboratory at the University of Warwick. Professor Joanna Collingwood is the Head of the Trace Metals in Medicine Laboratory at the University of Warwick. PROFESSOR JOANNA COLLINGWOOD. HOW DO WE FIND OUT? HOW DO WE FIND OUT? Alzheimer’s Society.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But he had a second hypothesis too—based, he said, on the ideas of “that most ingenious gentleman, Monsieur Descartes”: that instead air consists of “flexible particles” that are “so whirled around” that “each corpuscle endeavors to beat off all others”. The Sadi Carnot who would later become president of France was his nephew.)

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