Up to 40,000 residents of towns contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foams are set to sue the Australian government, amid cancer risk fears Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222219-australian-government-to-be-sued-over-firefighting-foam-contamination/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Engineers Develop Bone-Like Metal Foam That Can Be ‘Healed’ At Room Temperature
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Now, for the first time, Penn Engineers have developed a way to repair metal at room temperature. They call their technique “healing” because of its similarity to the way bones heal, recruiting raw material and energy from an external source. The study was conducted by James Pikul, assistant professor in the Department of…