Today’s Headline of the Day comes from the science blog called ScienceBlog reports: Researchers use human cells to engineer functional anal sphincters in lab Researchers have built the first functional anal sphincters in the laboratory, suggesting a potential future treatment for both fecal and urinary incontinence. Made from muscle and nerve cells, the sphincters developed […]
Tag: engineering
How to disassemble a skyscraper but not its neighborhood?
In the race to top the top, to build a tall building that’s at least momentarily taller than all the other tallest buildings, a two-part question lingers. These towers are so costly, and the real estate market so unpredictable, that one or more of these buildings could turn out to be financial failures. Then might arise […]
Slope Stability of Pretzel Bags
How much can or should be known about the physics of pretzels in a bag? One man contemplates the question: “Slope Stability of Pretzel Bags,” Brian Brenner [pictured here], Leadership Management in Engineering, vol. 11, 2011, p. 267-10. Read the text of it on Brenner’s blog. (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.)
Further advance in woodpecker head science
Joe Eaton reports in the Berkeley Daily Planet: Wild Neighbors: Woody Has the Last Laugh A few years back I wrote about the bestowal of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine on UC-Davis ophthalmology professor Ivan Schwab [pictured here] for his explanation of why woodpeckers don’t get headaches…. Just last month, though, two UC-Berkeley researchers, […]