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Bio-Inspired Lower-Limb ‘Wearing Robotic Exoskeleton’ for Human Gait Rehab

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25, 2016 — Stroke and spinal cord injury patients often require gait rehabilitation to regain the ability to walk or to help strengthen their […]

Controlling Ultrasound with 3-D Printed Devices

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 25, 2016 — Ultrasound is more than sound. Obstetricians use it to peer inside a woman’s uterus and observe a growing baby. Surgeons use […]

Space-based Droplet Dynamics Lessons?

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2016 — Droplets in space can grow freakishly large and bounce off nonwetting surfaces in truly unearthly ways. Astronauts frequently encounter huge droplets, […]

When It Comes to Polymer Fragility, Size Does Matter

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 18, 2016 — Polymers are very large molecules consisting of thousands, even millions, of atoms bonded together in a repeating pattern similar to a […]

“Shadow Method” Reveals Locomotion Secrets of Water Striders

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 17, 2016 — While walking beside the creek in the Beijing Botany Garden one autumn, Yu Tian, a professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua […]

Synchronizing Optical Clocks to One Quadrillionth of a Second

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — An international team of researchers, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has advanced […]

Mapping Free-Fall Styles of Solid Objects Within Fluids

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from trees or dandelion seeds blowing in the wind, we can see […]

Cicada Wings Inspire Antireflective Surfaces

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 11, 2016 — A team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University researchers has used the shape of cicada wings as a template to create antireflective […]

Measuring the Flowing Forces and Bending on Aquatic Plants

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2016 — Beneath the surface of rivers and streams, aquatic plants sway with the current, playing an unseen but vital role in the […]