Reality Checks:Pleurobot, Drug Resistant Yeast Infections, Building with Bone, and Vegetables on Mars

Elizabeth — June 30, 2016

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Pleurobot has been built to move like a salamander.(via Newsweek)
There is a drug-resistant strain of yeast infections. (via The CDC)
Imagining buildings built from bone. (via CSMonitor)
Vegetables from Mars. (via Gizmodo)

Featured image credit: Jannis via Flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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Reality Checks:Pleurobot, Drug Resistant Yeast Infections, Building with Bone, and Vegetables on Mars

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