Engineering

Fiery tests can assess new prototypes of portable shelters, the last line of defense for wildland firefighters

A new cilia-covered chip could revolutionize portable medical diagnosis

To safeguard fragile cultural objects, some groups are replicating them with digital models

The coating deters microorganisms to fight both food waste and foodborne illness

The design’s origami pattern creates the flexibility needed to deliver compounds to specific areas of the body

A two-part competition aims to spark innovation and connect the groups trying to redesign high-quality masks that protect against COVID

We need to protect vulnerable people from killer heat without destroying the environment

Complex social information can be felt through a virtual touch

A system could aid forensic searches and crime-scene mapping by detecting reflections from human materials

To propel itself higher than any known engineered jumper or animal can, it had to ignore the limits of biology

The innovators changed the nature of household work, industrial production and high technology

A new bio-inspired algorithm picks out the signal from the noise