President Lincoln personally led a recon mission during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln took direct control of the Army and Navy at Norfolk in 1862. He even led a recon mission on the James River to capture the city. (History) As the United States marks Presidents Day ...
Nature

Flexible joints: robot morphs into a range of cyborg species

For a low-cost solution, Karthik Urs, then at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his colleagues 3D printed a robot with legs that can be adapted to match those of various species — complete ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in ...

From Concrete to Canopy: How Mo Helmi Builds Urban Environments That Thrive

Now based between London and Los Angeles, Helmi is pushing into public-health conversations and fire-aware landscapes in Southern California. “As we approach the first anniversary of the Los Angeles ...