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Tag: Engineering

Fish fins are teaching us the secret to flexible robots and...

Francois Barthelat, University of Colorado Boulder The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Florida condo collapse – searching for answers about what went wrong...

Norb Delatte, Oklahoma State University The collapse of a huge condominium building near Miami, Florida was shocking news to...

How a professor learned to bring compassion to engineering and design

Tahira Reid, Purdue University Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tahira Reid leads a lab...

Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other...

Hanqing Jiang, Arizona State University and Zirui Zhai, Arizona State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Building robotic...

A tiny circular racetrack for light can rapidly detect single molecules

Judith Su, University of Arizona The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My Little Sensor Lab at the University of...

Teaching kids how to make guitars can get them hooked on...

Mark French, Purdue University The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. The Big Idea: I’m part of a team of professors and high...

Want to solve the world’s problems? Try working together across disciplines

Jonathan M Adler, Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering, and Robert Martello, Olin College of Engineering Labor Day is our New...

Fungi can help concrete heal its own cracks

Congrui Jin, Binghamton University, State University of New York Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the...

EXPLORING NATURE

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...

Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison