Preparing for Bloodshed in Space, With Pigs

“Be Prepared!” cries the motto of several organizations. It could also be the motto of everyone connected with this study: “Extraterrestrial regolith is hemostatic and potentially suitable for hemorrhage control in space,” Nabil Ali-Mohamad, Ting-Hsuan Wang, Lih Jiin Juang, Nuoya Peng, Massimo F. Cau, Kevin Cannon, and Christian J. Kastrup, Research and Practice in Thrombosis […]

Ig Nobel Show in LEIDEN Thursday, June 11

Join us this Thursday afternoon in  Leiden, the Netherlands. The show features Marc Abrahams and these Ig Nobel Prize winners: Mirjam Tuk (Medicine Prize, 2011): decision making with a full and empty bladder Antoine Deblais (Chemistry Prize, 2024): using chromatography to separate drunk and sober worms Ida Sabelis (Medicine Prize, 2000): sex in an MRI […]

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