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By Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard March 20, 2024This illustration highlights how two hydrogels (shown in blue) can be bonded in different ways by thin chitosan films (shown in orange). The bonds that form are extraordinarily strong and can resist high tensions. Credit: Peter Allen, Ryan Allen, and James C. Weaver.A novel technique for the quick and efficient bonding of hydrogels offers the potential to significantly propel forward the development of new biomaterials, addressing a wide…

Odysseus passes over the near side of the moon. Credit: Intuitive Machines From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting developments over the past seven days. Love evaluated Prairie voles, native to the U.S. Midwest, are so…

This story contains spoilers from Episode 7 of ABC’s “The Golden Bachelor.” With his abundant hair and smooth-talking demeanor, Gerry Turner, the 72-year-old widower searching for love on “The Golden Bachelor,” is the undisputed breakout star of the fall TV season.But many of the viewers who’ve flocked to the show — boosting ratings for the long-running reality franchise — have been equally charmed by the vivacious women vying for his heart. They’ve dispensed with the usual reality TV catfights and formed palpable…

Rachel Zegler revealed that featuring in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has brought her close to Jennifer Lawrence, who starred in the first edition of The Hunger Games (2012). During the London première of her film recently, Zegler, 22, shared, “I had already filmed it when I had met her, and we were able to bond over the fact that we know so many of the same people.” She added that until that moment, Lawrence didn’t realise they had so many mutual friends in the…

In Bloodline: Daughter of Blade #4, Blade tries to be a dad to Brielle. But Deacon Frost has other plans, and the cards say "Mother's Day Massacre!"Published Sun, 14 May 2023 15:26:14 -0500 by Jude Terror | Well, folks, it looks like Marvel's really trying to tug at our heartstrings with this upcoming issue of Bloodline: Daughter of Blade #4. Hitting stores on May 17th, we get to see Blade, the vampire slayer himself, attempting to play dad to his dear old daughter Brielle. I know what you're thinking – did the world…

Pietro and Bruno are brothers in everything but blood. Their friendship was forged during one glorious pre-adolescent summer, when Pietro’s parents rented a house in the Aosta valley in the Italian Alps, in a village in which Bruno was the only remaining child. The lifelong bond between them also links both to the rocky, vertebral peaks that were their childhood playground: as adults, both find themselves drawn to mountains. Bruno (Alessandro Borghi), a montanaro or mountain man at heart, stays put in the Aosta region;…

The new 13,000-sq.ft facility is the first automotive display bonding centre in India, leveraging advanced robotic technology from Visteon locations worldwide.Chennai: Visteon Corporation, a global technology company serving the mobility industry, has opened a new display bonding facility at Maraimalai Nagar, in Chennai.“Visteon Corporation is proud to announce the opening of our display bonding centre in Chennai,” João Paulo Ribeiro, Senior Vice President of…

Alyssa Sutherland & Lily Sullivan Talk About Bonding Like Sisters During ‘Evil Dead Rise’ Shoot ( Photo Credit – Instagram ; Evil Dead Rise Poster ) As their movie ‘Evil Dead Rises’ is all set to release, actors Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan spoke about the deep connection they built during making of the film. Warner Bros Pictures is all set to return to the iconic horror franchise, ‘Evil Dead Rise,’ written and directed by Lee Cronin. The movie stars Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland. Talking about their…

Ranveer gets photographed with Ben Affleck at NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 2023(Pic Credit: IANS) A picture of Bollywood star Ranveer Singh in which he can be seen along with Batman fame Ben Affleck has gone viral on the Internet. The actor was in the US to participate in NBA All-Star Celebrity Game 2023. Ranveer Singh represented NBA India at the sporting event, which was held on February 17 in Salt Lake City, Utah in the US. The ‘Gully Boy’ star was joined by ‘Shang-Chi‘ star Simu Liu, comedian Hasan Minhaj, and…

New research from the University of California, San Francisco and Stanford Medicine is challenging the long-held belief that the receptor for oxytocin, known as the “love hormone,” is essential for forming social bonds. The study, published in the journal Neuron, found that prairie voles bred without oxytocin receptors showed similar monogamous mating, attachment, and parenting behaviors to regular voles, and even gave birth and produced milk albeit in smaller quantities. This contradicts the previous idea that oxytocin…