Industry and government leaders know the key to sustainable growth and continuous innovation is to invest in the young minds that will...

With five years and up to $15 million of NASA funding locked up, Purdue University's Resilient Extra Terrestrial Habitats (RETH)...

Many of us have experienced the sizzle and aroma of steak on a grill. Now, we are one giant step closer to sourcing that meat from a lab...

With the aid of 3D printing and electrospinning, a team of bioengineers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine lead by...

A high-speed soft robotic “tongue” can spring out to five times its original length, snag a beetle crawling on the ground, and bring it...

Climate change is getting costlier and deadlier. A new report from British charity Christian Aid found that 15 of the world's largest...

Skin is one organ that varies greatly from patient to patient. Unlike damaged livers or lungs, which can be replaced by a donor,...

Perception is a tricky thing. Humans use all their senses to learn about their location and the objects with which they interact. If one...

The same mechanism that enables a parasitic wasp to lay her eggs inside a caterpillar without killing it could one day help surgeons...

Treating diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer, is so difficult that less than 1 percent of children survive...

Sometimes, it’s the simplest things that take the longest to master. Which is why a new haptic device that simulates the insertion of a...

By using a softer material as a scaffold, biomedical engineers Lance Kam and Helen Lu of Columbia University can generate a dramatically...

A research lab has found an innovative way to close the gap between low-tech passive ankle prostheses and high-tech robotics. A morning...

2017 was an exceptional year for ordinary citizens who stepped up to come to their communities' needs and in the process, sent a clear...

As we look back on the most noteworthy environmental stories of 2017, one cannot help but start with the extreme weather that has caused...

Protecting the natural environment may seem overwhelming with increased natural disasters, melting sea ice, and threatened wildlife. But...

This was a year of tug-of-war for the environment. With Donald Trump becoming president of the U.S. at a time when wildfires, hurricanes,...

A new wound dressing fights infection and uses human cells to regrow tissue without scarring. A new antimicrobial wound dressing that...

Here’s how a “normal” solar storm happens: Magnetic fields and plasma explode from within the sun’s corona, called a coronal mass...

A cancer research company's "No Cell Left Behind" technology can identify just five cells in a sample of 30 million. Cancer is...