The beating heart is a tough place to try sticking things together. When surgeons need to get in there to fix something that has gone amiss, their options for sealing incisions are mostly limited to stitches or liquid adhesives.
Lukla's Tenzing-Hillary airport in Nepal could be the most extreme commercial airport in the world. Perched 9,382 feet high, in a valley filled with wicked wind shear, it has a fearsome uphill runway just four football fields long that ends in a rock wall.
This week on Txchnologist, we learned about advances in transparent electronics that could one day lead to implantable devices that give us real-time status updates on our health.
This flower is drawn with conductive metal ink, creating a complete circuit that lights a green LED bulb. The functioning, flexible circuit is drawn on regular paper with a new ink that is composed of nanoscopic sheets made of copper, its creators say.
Closing the "skills gap" is high on the list of priorities for Washington policymakers. But the debate behind the skills gaps---whether it exists, how large it might be, and what to do about it---is much less clear-cut than a casual reading of the papers would suggest.
University of Chicago astronomers have logged a record amount of time peering through the Hubble Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of a distant world. They’ve detected clear evidence of exotic clouds that may be composed of compounds like zinc sulfide or potassium chloride.
Getting milk from cow to customer is a fairly straightforward proposition: milk the cows, collect the milk from a bunch of different animals, transport it to a processor to get it ready to consume, package it and distribute it for sale to consumers.
