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A new type of materially enhanced “Super Wood” that is stronger than steel is closing in on full production and it could be the answer to using tropical hardwood
Source: The World’s First ‘Super Wood’ is Weeks Away from Full Production
Pretty cool stuff.
An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is working on a 3D printable material that behaves like human bone and can be individually adapted to the anatomical conditions of individual patients. The aim is to make surgical interventions for bone damage more precise, safer and more efficient in the long term. At the […]
Source: 3D-printed bone grafts: Researchers develop patient-specific replacement material
Pretty cool.
New research, which tracked a group of men and women from 11 to 79, has added further validity to the links between mental health and gardening.
Source: The secret to living longer could be found in your own backyard, study finds
The “Toddler Mobility Trainer” is fully modular and requires no tools to assemble, making it easy to replace and grow with its user.
Source: Design lab invents fully 3D-printed wheelchair for kids, will give them away for free
Very cool.
The slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds can trap microplastics better than the slightly-toxic synthetic polymer in use.
Source: Okra and Fenugreek Extracts Safely Remove Microplastics From Water in New Texas Research
Behold the power of … okra? 
CDC study finds big declines in hospitalizations—and they may be underestimates.
Source: New RSV vaccine, treatment linked to dramatic fall in baby hospitalizations
Vaccines work.
A nursing home in the heart of the Netherlands is giving college students free housing. All they ask is that the students lend their time, and friendship, to their senior neighbors.
Source: Dutch nursing home has a simple fix for senior loneliness: give college students free rent
Neat idea.
The tiny mammal’s population was decimated by drought and bushfires, but after five years of struggle they are starting to thrive.
Source: From slim chance to ‘shiny and fat’, pygmy possums back from the brink
Because: cute!
Pegleg’s story of perseverance is among many at a celebration of 100 years of surfing in Cornwall.
Source: ‘Nothing stops me,’ says Cornish surfer with one leg
Inspiring.
“My first couple bites were really crazy,” he says. “It’s like a bee sting times a thousand. I mean, you can have levels of anxiety that goes through the roof.”
Source: He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom
Wow. “Really crazy” indeed.