Taking on a hiking trail or a cobblestone street with a prosthetic leg is a risky proposition – it’s possible, but even in relatively easy terrain, people who use prostheses to walk are more likely to fall than others.
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Flexible Generators Turn Movement into Energy
Wearable devices that harvest energy from movement are not a new idea, but a material created at Rice University may make them more practical.
How the Enzyme Lipoxygenase Drives Heart Failure After Heart Attacks
Heart failure after a heart attack is a global epidemic leading to chronic heart failure pathology.
Native Plant Species May Be at Greater Risk from Climate Change Than Non-Natives
As spring advances across the Midwest, a new study looking at blooming flowers suggests that non-native plants might outlast native plants in the region due to climate change.
Vulnerability of Cloud Service Hardware Uncovered
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are, so to say, a computer manufacturer’s “Lego bricks”: electronic components that can be employed in a more flexible way than other computer chips.
Intensification of Cattle Ranching Doesn’t Always Help Reduce Deforestation
The intensification of cattle ranching in a particular area to boost its productivity was proposed by experts as a measure to reduce deforestation of new lands in the Amazon, but a new study shows that sometimes it can have the opposite effect.
