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  • The physics of the sneeze

    One laboratory is using slow motion footage of people sneezing to study the physics of these disease-spreading expulsions.

    image credit: Prof. Lydia Bourouiba, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, MIT.

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Industrial research: Drug companies must adopt green chemistry

    Amgen’s John L. Tucker and Margaret M. Faul distil their lessons from going green in a Comment piece this week. They relate how they transformed the drug company from a C+ to an A+ sustainability rating, saving time and money. The ingredients are, they write, “an empowered team with management support to lead the transformation; staff education, awareness and recognition; investment in technology; development of metrics and tools; and external collaboration and outreach”.

    image credit: Amgen