Thanks to the deterioration of Olympic medals, the field of metallurgy, which in recent years has tended to call itself “materials science“, is having a shining moment in the sun. La Lettre reports [here machine -translated into English]: Investigation How the Paris Mint fell off the podium with its Olympic medals According to information from […]
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Low-gravity blood spatter, Thinking inside the box, Stick to Fruit, Genital glow
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Blood spatter on high — “Be prepared!” This enduring motto of the Scout movement will come to mind for many readers of a paper called “Bloodstain pattern dynamics in microgravity: Observations of a pilot study in the […]

