Working knowledge: Left ventricular assist devices: Restoring flow

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Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are used to keep heart failure patients alive until they get an available transplant organ. The complications involved in LVAD devices are discussed and engineers are evaluating experimental, third-generation devices, which use magnetically levitated rotors, reducing moving parts.

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Ball bearings: Ease the grind

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The way in which ball bearings work in any machine is presented. It is a key to the devices that spin or roll like power plant turbines, steering columns, wheels, skateboards and many more machines.

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Predicting wildfires: Fires are burning more acres than ever

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The article discusses the factors responsible for the cause of wildfires in forests lands of the U.S. The increase in fires are usually caused due to the accumulation of deadwood forest wreckage.

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