How to Make Bionic Limbs (Literally) Very Cool
Temperature is one of the hardest aspects of touch to re-create for prosthetic users. This tiny patch could help people with amputated limbs sense coldness. ..
Temperature is one of the hardest aspects of touch to re-create for prosthetic users. This tiny patch could help people with amputated limbs sense coldness. ..
Environmentalist Jamie Beard has been pushing her vision to tap into geothermal energy—by working with Big Oil. Can it ever work? ..
Actuators inspired by cucumber plants could make robots move more naturally in response to their environments, or be used for devices in inhospitable places. ..
Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted ..
A new paper showing how water actually travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient. That’s good news for a thirsty world. ..
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler. ..
The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi. ..
Bringing people with a range of perspectives to the table is the quickest way to solve difficult problems, experts tell WIRED Impact. ..
Any smartphone in any car can pick up a span’s unique vibrations. Tracking how that changes over time reveals hidden structural problems. ..
Physicists have solved a key problem of robotic locomotion by revising the usual rules of interaction between simple component parts. ..