Prosthetic Touch
New advances are giving amputees the ability touch and feel through prosthetic hands.
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Programming Plants
Researchers strive to engineer plants with the same precision they use to design microchips.
Old Lungs & Ibuprofen
Ibuprofen might quell lung inflammation and help prevent infections.
Solar Grass Blades
Unique nanostructures copy grass blade architecture to harvest sunlight.
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.
Smelly T-Shirts
How stinky your workout shirt will become depends on what it's made of.
Yacht Data Collection
A plan to turn recreational sailors into citizen scientists.
Frugal Engineering
How can engineering better address global health challenges?
Chronic Pain Treatment
Researchers search for new ways to tamp down pain signals.
Disaster Tweets
Tweets help civil engineers build higher performing buildings, roads and bridges.