Fungi in the Amazon Will Eat Your Plastic
The Amazon is home to more species than almost anywhere else on earth. One of them, carried home recently by a group from Yale University, appears to be quite happy eating plastic in airless...
View ArticleHow Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women’s Bodies
Chikako Takeshita’s The Global Biopolitics of the IUD traces the scientific and political history of the intrauterine device (IUD) from the 1960s through today. This birth control device, Takeshita...
View ArticleSelf healing materials – Watch plastic break, bleed, and heal itself.
From ByteSizeScience – “Our latest episode explores materials that mimic the human skin’s ability to heal scratches and cuts. For a first-hand look at self-healing plastics, we visited the lab of...
View ArticlePetri Paintings by Klari Reis
www.klarireis.comFiled under: Paint/Illust./Mix-Media, Science Tagged: colors, petri dish, plastic, polymers
View ArticleMEDICAL SIMULATION by Jim Johnston
Medical Simulation is Jim Johnston’s recent work shot at The Bristol Medical Simulation Centre, a training facility in West England. This center provides medical students and clinicians the opportunity...
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