Prosthetic Touch
New advances are giving amputees the ability touch and feel through prosthetic hands.
Programming Plants
Researchers strive to engineer plants with the same precision they use to design microchips.
Curiosity to Learn
Heightened curiosity about one subject primes people to learn less interesting information as well.
Old Lungs & Ibuprofen
Ibuprofen might quell lung inflammation and help prevent infections.
Solar Grass Blades
Unique nanostructures copy grass blade architecture to harvest sunlight.
Seafloor Mapping
Space-based measurements of the ocean’s surface are revealing the topography of the seafloor miles below.
Monarch Genetics
Scientists have identified the genetic underpinnings of monarch butterfly migration.
Gut-Powered Biofuels
Human gut microbes could break down grasses into sugars for biofuel production.
Syrian Cultural Site Destruction
War in Syria is reducing much of the country’s cultural heritage to rubble.
Campfire Stories
Campfires may have played a big role in bringing early humans together.
Eliminating Rabies
Mass canine vaccination campaigns could eliminate human deaths from rabies in developing countries.
Earth’s Ancient Water
The earth’s water is older than the sun’s and may point to the possibility of life in other parts of space.
Flu Shots & Pregnancy
Flu shots protect pregnant women - and their babies.
Changing Foliage
Climate change may affect fall foliage in many different ways.
Smelly T-Shirts
How stinky your workout shirt will become depends on what it's made of.
American Bird Report
Even common birds are showing declines in this year’s State of the Birds report.
Circadian Colds
Why do the symptoms of common respiratory infections often worsen at night?
Yacht Data Collection
A plan to turn recreational sailors into citizen scientists.
Wastewater Earthquakes
Regions of the U.S. that rarely saw earthquakes in the past are now shaking regularly due to oil and gas extraction activities.
2014-2015 Flu Shot
Healthy people need the flu shot every year, especially to help protect those who are more vulnerable to complications from the virus.
Frugal Engineering
How can engineering better address global health challenges?