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.
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 …
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.
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 …