Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower | Hub

OK- so THIS specific thing is done. I have not seen the data (decibels @ 50') but I do know this... there are many other challenges unsolved (and largely unaddressed) out there.

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Dynamic microvilli sculpt bristles at nanometric scale | Nature Communications

I am often thinking about biomimicry. I wonder if something like this process could be 3D printed at a larger scale... for another valuable use of some sort. (?)

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Scanning electron microscopy/SEM
The refractive index tomograms of isolated bristles were obtained by Nanolive 3D Cell Explorer, and raw data were deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10207240.

Virtual reality warps your sense of time | ScienceDaily

Interesting, perhaps. Well, we DO have a solid VR headset.

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Rocks beneath our feet could be key to carbon-neutral cement

This sort of thing isn't exactly my specialty, but I HAVE had a student do an award-winning project that dealt with engineered concrete...

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Add to the many afterlives of coffee grounds: Toxic cleanup

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The experts selected onion plants to test out this idea, known for their high sensitivity to toxins in the environment. In beakers of water containing bentazone, they grew onion root tissue, called meristems, measuring its cell division and root growth as a sign of health.

Study traces an infectious language epidemic | ScienceDaily

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Rho's work is grounded in a social science framework called Fuzzy Trace Theory that was pioneered by Valerie Reyna, a Cornell University professor of psychology and a collaborator on this Virginia Tech project. Reyna has shown that individuals learn and recall information better when it is expressed in a cause and effect relationship, and not just as rote information. This holds true even if the information is inaccurate or the implied connection is weak. Reyna calls this cause-and-effect construction a "gist."

The Secret Language of Trees - YouTube

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See How Your School District Is Recovering From the Pandemic - The New York Times

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PROOF POINTS: How Covid narrowed the STEM pipeline

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Climate Change Is Causing Trees To Struggle To “Breathe”

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