If you were a kid before the age of smartphones, you probably played with a whirligig at least once. The design for this simple toy, which will spin twine threaded through a button at rapid speeds ...

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Fidget spinners can generate enough force to separate blood plasma with the flick of a finger, reveals a new study. Blood plasma can be separated easily not only with a centrifuge but also with a ...

Some people use fidget spinners -- flat, multi-lobed toys with a ball bearing at the center -- to diffuse nervous energy or whirl away stress. Now, researchers have found a surprising use for the toys ...

Scientists at Monash University in Australia have developed a process for rapidly and efficiently separating blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing ...

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the BD Vacutainer Barricor plasma blood collection tube. is a single-use plastic tube that relies on new separation technology to extract plasma from ...