Discover When Hearts Beat as One In her book Seven and a Half Lessons about the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, suggests that all this synchronizing is just a part of being a social species — and often a very advantageous part. “One advantage,” she writes, “is that we live longer if we have close, supportive relationships with […]
New England Public Radio Slug slime inspires scientists to invent sticky surgical glue They ended up creating a gel-like patch using similar ingredients to the mucus. As Li and his colleagues write in the journal Science, the material successfully stuck to bloody, beating pig hearts. It patched holes in rat livers and didn’t cause damage to human cells. Li says it’s as good at sticking to organs as […]