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This week on Reactions we head to Portland, Oregon, and learn how blacksmithing is just as much chemistry as it is an artform.

NASA engineers plan to test a new avionics technology -- distributed payload communications -- that would give scientists a never-before-offered capability in sounding rocket-based research. With such technology, sounding rockets could deploy multiple soda can-sized sub-payloads to varying altitudes where their onboard miniaturized instruments could gather multi-point measurements. A distributed payload communications radio receiver located on the main payload would then gather the sub-payloads' data and multiplex them into one data stream that it would transmit to ground stations below.

Stretchable circuits have the advantage that they also work in textiles such as clothing. However, their production is considered to be very costly. A new, simplified process has now been presented by 2 computer scientists from Saarland University.

Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare Releases Primer to Advance Understanding within the Industry. Technical whitepaper, as well as a high-level overview, seek to define a foundational lexicon and illustrate real-world applications of this growing technological movement to improve patient outcomes.