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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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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. However, changes in metal chemistry appear to be more marked in diseased brains than in healthy brains. Professor Joanna Collingwood is the Head of the Trace Metals in Medicine Laboratory at the University of Warwick.

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Examining the extremely small

Futurum

“Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. For us, CeNS is the ideal hub to catch the scientific questions in physics, chemistry, materials science and biology that can be addressed with TEM,” he says.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. But in 1834, Émile Clapeyron (1799–1864)—a rather distinguished French engineering professor (and steam engine designer)—wrote a paper entitled “ Memoir on the Motive Power of Heat ”.

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