Created by Mike Moyer, the DIY nitro sharpener is made out of an RC toy car engine, pistons, and other parts, as well as the metal head of the type of old-fashioned manual pencil sharpener that was ...

The world is facing a perilous challenge of a lack of new antimicrobials coming through while the number of bacteria resistant to antibiotics increases (and a growing number that are resistant to one ...

(Nanowerk News) Picture a brand-new, unsharpened pencil. The graphite at its core can't be used for writing until a pencil sharpener chews away its wooden tip. Now picture microcin B17, an antibiotic ...