Key Takeaways Squeaks from soft-on-rigid interfaces, like shoes on a smooth floor, are driven by opening slip pulses that rapidly detach and reattach the interface at near-supersonic speeds. The ...

One of the challenges in studying diabetes and developing new treatments is that the endocrine cells that control glucose — known as islets — are hard to monitor and study. They are tiny — much ...

Key Takeaways A new study finds that sustainable aviation fuel made from municipal solid waste could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80-90% compared with traditional jet fuel. Municipal solid waste ...

New textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties Imagine a road cyclist or downhill skier whose clothing adapts to their wind speed, allowing them to shave time just by pulling or stretching the ...

Key Takeaways Harvard researchers have created a soft, wearable robotic device that provides personalized movement assistance for individuals with upper-limb impairment, such as stroke and ALS ...

Harvard SEAS researchers have built a robotic platform inspired by California blackworms, where individual robots tangle together into large, active blobs. The researchers aim to study dynamics of ...

Harvard SEAS researchers have demonstrated that they can grow green algae inside shelters made out of bioplastics in Mars-like conditions. The experiments are a first step toward designing sustainable ...

In the past, scientists have used patch-clamp or metal electrodes inserted into mature brains to record electrical activity of single neurons with high resolution. Further breakthroughs in tissue-like ...

Falletta, who now works at Radical AI on accelerating materials discovery, said that foundational models based on the one described in Nature Communications could allow machine learning-enabled ...

When a crack forms in the new material, the long spaghetti strands spread out the stress by sliding past each other, allowing more rubber to crystallize as it stretches, and overall making the ...

To go airborne, the robot uses what’s called latch-mediated spring actuation, in which potential energy is stored in an elastic element – the furcula – that can be deployed in milliseconds like a ...

Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences ...