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Micro Fluid Art

This started out as a fun way to display a new technique I developed to pattern proteins onto substrates. This technique allows for filling extremeley long microfluidic channels with solutions in a very facile manner.

Researchers re-create pre-Columbian sounds

Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand.

But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle.

If death had a sound, this was it.

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