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‘Print’ almost anything

By Stephen Ornes / April 28, 2013

Caption: For Valentine’s Day this year, a Japanese company used a 3-D printer to produce chocolate copies of people’s faces. Credit: FabCafe/Think 3D/K’s Design Lab

3-D printers allow people to build almost anything they can imagine — from toys to food, buildings to body parts

Posted in Technology & Engineering | Tagged 3-D inks, 3-D printer, 3-D printing, additive manufacturing, artificial heart, August Rodin, Barack Obama, Cambridge, Cody R. Wilson, Cornell University, diabetes, engineering, ESA, European Space Agency, Fashion Week, feature, guns, Harvard University, Ibrahim Ozbolat, Industrial Revolution, insulin, Iris van Herpen, Ithaca, Jennifer Lewis, King Richard III, Loughborough University, makers, manufacturing, Mars base, moon base, NASA, pancreas, printed food, Richard Harris, sintering, space architecture, State of the Union, topstories, University of Iowa, University of Leicester

Cool Jobs: Scents of science

By Pippa Wysong / September 12, 2012

Humpback whales sometimes breach, or leap into the air. Some scientists believe the behavior allows the marine mammals to smell scents wafting over the water.
Credit: NOAA

Better understanding of the sense of smell inspires research into everything from whales to electronic ‘noses’

Posted in Animals, Brain & Behavior, STEM Careers | Tagged acetone, Alzheimer’s, blood sugar, brain scan, breach, cool jobs, diabetes, electronic nose, electronic sniffer, feature, humpback, Institute of Arctic Biology, insulin, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Jan Straley, Julie Hagelin, odors, olfaction, olfactory bulb, Parkinson’s disease, Perena Gouma, Richard Doty, Rush University Medical Center, smell, Stony Brook, SUNY, the State University of New York, topstories, toxic chemicals, type 1, University of Alaska, University of Pennsylvania Smell and Taste Center, University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test, UPSIT, whale, World Trade Center collapse

Kids with ‘adult’ problems

By Stephen Ornes / July 2, 2012

Poor nutrition and lack of exercise contribute to the rising rate of obesity in American children. Obesity, or being extremely overweight, is linked to a number of serious health issues. Credit: Chris Fertnig/iStockphoto

Nationwide survey shows that children are headed toward serious health problems related to excess weight

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged atherosclerosis, children, cholesterol, diabetes, exercise, getinvolved, health, heart disease, high blood pressure, hypertension, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES, obesity, overweight

Losing control over sugar

By Stephen Ornes / March 1, 2012

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A common pollutant and sweetener mess with important hormones

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged diabetes, endocrine, Endocrine system, evolution, getinvolved, hormones, insulin, pancreas, systems

Kids now getting ‘adult’ disease

By Emily Sohn / April 24, 2009

More kids are developing diabetes, and obesity is a major reason why.

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged diabetes, endocrine, Endocrine system, hormones, insulin, obesity, pancreas