#72 Biomanufactured materials are coming

Biomanufactured materials are coming

Twenty milligrams, about the weight of a feather. Spiber's founders had only made this much spider silk protein in three months in 2008. For their first year operating, it was an inconspicuous amount and very humble beginnings.

If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever

Alex Baia humorously imagines the seemingly unending hiring process for a tech company.

Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

Pacemakers are used to stimulate a regular heartbeat when the body’s natural electrical pacing system is irregular or not transmitting properly. Over the years, various power sources have been used for pacemakers, including a radioactive material called plutonium-238.

Lost islands cited in Welsh folklore and poetry are plausible

A Welsh tradition dating to the medieval period of a landscape lost to the sea is plausible, new evidence on the evolution of the coastline of west Wales has revealed. Drawing on geological data and a medieval map, the researchers propose how two islands may have come into existence and then disappeared again.

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