Special care needs to be taken when handling delicate materials used in medical applications. Small diameters provide increased flexibility needed for the long flex life applications, such as cardiac catheter wires. Many other applications also use these fine materials as winding...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studies sea animals that have washed up to help determine what natural or man-made effects are responsible for the deaths, including the recent dolphin die-off, working with their own CSI group - the Computerized Scanning and Imaging Facility.

The lack of gravity in space reduces the mechanical loading seen by both the muscles and bones of the body, especially those related to standing and moving. The body adapts to reduced loading by losing bone mass and muscle mass. In long duration space flights this leads...