Designing to Enhance Fire Safety
In the United States, making buildings code-compliant and fire-resistant costs tens of billions of dollars annually. Despite these expenditures, major…
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Deciphering the Brain
With its 86 billion neurons and more than 100 trillion connections, the human brain is sometimes described as the most…
Life in the Fast Lane
“These findings could inspire new treatment for mucus-related illnesses, including chronic lung diseases and mucinous cancer, the deadliest subtype for…
Opening Access to Windfarm Data
Wind power produces over 8% of our nation’s electricity, but one impediment to increasing reliance on this clean, sustainable power…
3 Questions: Howard Katz on the Power of Plastics
Plastics are known for being robust and flexible, but most aren’t particularly good conductors of electricity; in fact, they are…
Tech Tools: Tiny Caps for ‘Mini Brains’
It could be the world’s tiniest EEG electrode cap, created to measure activity in a brain model the size of…
Prime Posture for Pill Taking
When you have a headache and reach for a pain reliever, you’re probably not thinking about your body position when…
How Cancer Cells Organize
“By measuring what genes are being expressed in what cells while maintaining the spatial organization of the cells in tissues,…
Trending: Winter 2023
“The perfectly harmless conversation you had yesterday might come back to hurt you years from now. That’s why we don’t…