Month: September 2015

Grant Dawson was set to make his first television and Resurrection Fighting Alliance (RFA) debut but ended up getting foiled by the hot tub he was sitting in to cut weight just days before the fight. Dawson (7-0), who trains at Victory MMA, was at Prairie Life Fitness in Lincoln, Nebraska, early last week attempting to cut weight for his scheduled fight on Friday, Sept. 25. Unfortunately, he didn't make it to weigh-in, according to mmafighting.com. Part of his regimen was soaking in the hot tub water for 45-minute intervals. After a couple hours in and out of the hot water he began to feel the sensation of his skin burning right off of him and had to be rushed to a nearby hospital. "It was probably the most pain I've felt in my life," Dawson said. "It really felt like something w...

The human teeth are one of the most durable structures found in the world and can take years of constant use without serious signs of damage. This durability is due to the unique molecular structure of thousands of micro-platelet layers aligned together perfectly. Scientist have now found a way to mimic the pattern found in natural teeth into their newly created, stronger-than-ever artificial teeth. The technique, called magnetically assisted slip casting (MASC), was utilized by André Studart and his team at ETH Zurich. To create the teeth, researchers made a plaster cast, which is used as a mold. The mold is then filled with a suspension of magnetized aluminum oxide platelets, which fills the pores from the mold and solidifies from the outside in. To achieve the complex layer struct...