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ICYMI: Harnessing mother nature's fury for energy
try{document.getElementById("aol-cms-player-1").style.display="none";}catch(e){}Today on In Case You Missed It: A Japanese engineer created a wind turbine that can harness energy from both typhoons and hurricanes, watch the video of it here. Meanwhile, researchers at Northwestern University developed a 3D printed bone made of ceramic and polymer materials that can encourage bone to regrow itself once it's implanted. Scripps Institution for Oceanography had bad news for humanity this week after the group said the world's carbon levels went over 400 parts per million. There are three RIP items in the news this week, so get acquainted with the Rosetta Probe's storied history, Blackberry's decision to stop making its own handsets, and camera wearable company Narrative deciding to call it a day. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
Surgeons could use these fake elastic bones to fix injuries
A team of American scientists have developed a 3D-printed bone biomaterial that can coax your own skeleton to grow and fix injuries on its own. They haven't tested it on humans just yet, but they were able to use their creation to repair a monkey's skull and to fuse rat spines. The synthetic material called "hyperelastic bone" is primarily made of ceramic and polymer and can be manufactured using an expensive but commercially available 3D printer. It's dubbed hyperelastic, because unlike other bone graft materials, which are typically brittle, it's flexible, strong and not prone to chipping or breaking.
