Materials
Creepy-sounding lab advances show promise for health and sustainability
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A suite of recent studies in American Chemical Society journals describes two‑year‑old brain organoids with measurable activity, a wearable electrospinning glove for on‑site wound patches, an edible coating from the Brazilian “wolf apple” that kept baby carrots fresh for up to 15 days at room temperature, and microplastics detected in post‑mortem human retinas.
Chemists at Rice University have replicated Thomas Edison's 1879 light bulb experiments and found evidence that the inventor may have accidentally produced graphene as a byproduct. The discovery, detailed in a new paper, highlights how modern tools can reinterpret historical innovations. This turbostratic graphene emerged from heating carbon filaments to extreme temperatures.