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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

New life for a used organ

By Stephen Ornes / April 26, 2013

A rat kidney was stripped of its cells and repopulated with human and rat cells. Researchers transplanted the organ into a rat, where it functioned to produce urine and filter impurities from blood. Credit: Ott Lab/Center for Regenerative Medicine/Massachusetts General Hospital

Scientists transplant a rebuilt kidney into a rat

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged bioengineering, blood vessels, dialysis, Edward Ross, extracellular matrix, getinvolved, Harald Ott, Harvard University, kidneys, nephrology, rats, topstories, transplantation, transplants, University of Florida, urine

Stem cells: The secret to change

By Alison Pearce Stevens / April 10, 2013

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Unusual, versatile cells hold the key to regrowing lost tissues

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged adult stem cells, Anne Cherry, axon, cornea, dachshund, embryonic stem cells, feature, genetic disease, glaucoma, Harvard University, induced pluripotent stem cells, Iowa State University, iP stem cells, iPS cells, Iqbal Ahmad, Kyoto University, marrow, neuron, Nick Jeffery, Nobel prize, Pearson syndrome, red blood cells, retina, Robin Franklin, Shinya Yamanaka, specialization, spinal cord injury, Stem cells, topstories, University of Cambridge, University of Nebraska Medical Center, vision loss, white blood cells

Where cosmic rays are born

By Sid Perkins / February 16, 2013

Here we go! Shock waves in the clouds of gas surrounding an exploding star (as in this artist’s depiction) accelerate charged particles called protons to very high speed, creating cosmic rays.
Credit: Greg Stewart, SLAC Nat'l Accelerator Lab.

New evidence links origin of these very energetic particles to massive explosions of distant stars

Posted in Earth & Sky, Space | Tagged astrophysicist, atoms, cosmic rays, galactic magnetic field, gamma rays, getinvolved, Harvard University, light year, light-speed, Milky Way, Patrick Slane, protons, Stanford University, Stefan Funk, subatomic particle, supernova, supernova remnant, topstories

Color-changing robot

By Stephen Ornes / October 14, 2012

Tiny tubes filled with colored dyes let these soft robots blend in with their environments. Credit: S. Morin, Harvard University

Tiny tunnels within the “skin” of a robot allow it to blend in with or stand out from its surroundings

Posted in Technology & Engineering | Tagged chameleons, color-changing, colors, DARPA, engineering, getinvolved, Harvard University, infrared, materials science, octopus, physics, robots, soft robots, topstories, University of Cincinnati