‘Injectable bone’ helps fractures
A substance that can be squirted into bone fractures where it hardens within minutes is developed by scientists.
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Archive for December 6th, 2008
Cairo’s Congested Ramses Square to be Redesigned for "Urban Harmony"
Cairo’s Ramses Square at night: Public space that cries out to be rescued from cars. (photo via www.urbanharmony.org)
After noise levels in Cairo have gotten so out of control that one study compared life in the city center to living inside an industrial factory, things in Africa’s biggest metropolis may soon be headed in a new […]
Pollution to Put an End to Endless Summer Days?
The view looks great–for now.
When the days are short and cold, one’s thoughts often turn to warm memories of an idyllic summer vacation–or to making plans for the next one. A “blue cruise” on Turkey’s Aegean or Mediterranean coast is about as idyllic as you can get, traversing gorgeous coastline on a gület (wooden yacht) […]
EPA Ignores Own Scientists’ Advice, Makes a Gift to Coal Mining Interests
Image from Jen SFO-CBN
In what’s become a depressingly predictable trend, the EPA’s higher-ups have once again chosen to consciously ignore the better advice of their scientists and reverse a long-standing rule banning the dumping of coal mining debris into mountain streams. ProPublica’s Joaquin Sapien writes that the reversal will clear the new for a new […]
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