By: Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas at Austin As millions of students of all ages return to school this fall, they are making important choices that have a strong influence on their eventual career path – which college majors to pursue, which high school classes to take, even which elementary school extracurricular activities to join. Many of them – especially women, girls and members of minority groups – make choices that lead them away from professions in the fields…
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We’ve talked about the advancements in prosthetic limbs in the past, but now a group of researchers out of Seoul National University are taking innovation in prosthetics one step further with this new “smart skin.” Researchers from the Republic of Korea have developed a stretchy synthetic skin embedded with sensors, which will be able to help those with prosthetics regain their sense of touch. This from “Stretchable silicon nanoribbon electronics for skin prosthesis” in the journal Nature Communications: This collection…
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Here in the home office we are not just honoring U.S. Veterans today. As a society with international membership, we are thinking about the men and women who have served their countries around the world. We couldn’t help but look into how electrochemistry and solid state science might have shaped a soldier’s life. It turns out, when you are working for an organization that has been around since 1902 and that cuts across so much of our everyday lives, you…
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