Now there’s another good reason to recycle those aluminum cans.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, materials scientists have developed an aluminum alloy that can be 3D-printed, stands up under extreme heat, and has tested at five times the strength of commercial aluminum made in the customary way.
Researchers at the University of Vermont’s medical school have found that replacing a missing fat in the brain may be a key to preventing—and even reversing—some common forms of dementia, a condition afflicting an estimated 50 million and growing number of people worldwide.
While this instinctive, instantaneous response is innate in humans, it has been a struggle to develop a pain reflex in robots.