“President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur, aviator and private astronaut, to lead NASA. The selection comes as the $25-billion-per-year space agency faces intense pressures to return U.S. astronauts to the moon as part of its over budget and behind-schedule Artemis program—while also balancing the denouement of the International Space Station and a vast, ambitious portfolio of space science and aeronautical initiatives.” (Scientific American)

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A precisely printed, ultrathin e-tattoo conforms perfectly to the scalp’s unique topography, jetting biocompatible conductive inks through hair to create a personalized, skin-conformable neural sensor. Researchers have developed a digital printing technique that allows custom EEG sensors to be printed directly onto the scalp, overcoming traditional limitations of cumbersome electrode placement. By using a 5-axis microjet printing robot and personalized 3D head scans, they can create breathable, stretchable e-tattoos that enable comfortable, long-term brain monitoring. (via Cell Biomaterials)

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