Researchers in Massachusetts have developed a prosthetic ankle that works more like the real thing than ever before. As Wyatt Andrews found out, many amputees see the limbs as so functional, they stop seeing themselves as impaired.
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Feed SubscriptionPhysicists discover mechanisms of wrinkle and crumple formation
Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological and synthetic sheets, such as plant leaves and crushed foils, say physicists Benny Davidovitch, Narayanan Menon and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but how a featureless sheet develops a complex shape has long remained elusive.
Read More »Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?
Is blogging dead? Not quite, but a recent survey finds it could be on its way out as a marketing tool. Is blogging dead?
Read More »At "recovery" high schools, sober and college-bound
Former addicts receive small-class education and integrated counseling at special schools in Massachusetts
Read More »Honest Tea CEO: What I Told Congress
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Read More »A Pirate’s Life for Me: Celebrating the Science of Pirates
Who says science can’t swashbuckle with the best of them? Jen-Luc Piquant was so very thrilled to learn this week that MIT has been harboring bona fide, certified pirates in their midst.
Read More »Capital Well’s Next-Generation Solution
New Hampshire's Capital Well is facing a classic predicament; Its core product is rapidly becoming commoditized. It needs to innovate--fast. Here's how
Read More »FDA review on tap for Aeroshot caffeine inhalers
AeroShot went on market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also available in France
Read More »Treasure Hunt: One Entrepreneur’s $3 Billion Deep-Sea Quest
Greg Brooks, founder of Sub Sea Research, a small business in Maine, is setting off on a journey to salvage a $3 billion underwater wreck. One Maine entrepreneur is hoping to turn a $5 million investment into a $3 billion payday. Greg Brooks, founder and owner of Sub Sea Research, a Portland, Maine-based business that hunts for treasure, recently came across the biggest find of his career: 1.7 million ounces—62,500 pounds—of platinum aboard a scuttled cargo ship that sank in 1942
Read More »Want to Be More Inventive? Think Like a Fifth Grader
A cognitive psychologist has developed a toolkit to help anyone be more inventive by shedding their preconceived ideas and thinking like a kid. Every entrepreneur is trying to do something new and better. If your business doesn't improve in some way on the other dry cleaner in town or other app in the space, then why bother starting it, right?
Read More »Cutting corners to make superconductors work better
Making superconducting nanocircuits with rounded corners will improve their performance, according to John R. Clem, a physicist at the U.S.
Read More »High Cost of a Winter That Wasn’t
So Punxsutawney Phil says there will be six more weeks of winter. Who cares? This weather has really messed up businesses all around the country
Read More »What You Can Learn From Romney’s Inauthenticity
Communication is the gateway to connect with your constituents. Here's how to be open, honest, and sincere. Mitt Romney may be in danger of throwing away his front-runner status in the Republican presidential primary
Read More »Why Innovation Needs Academia
It's in style to dismiss business school, and higher education in general, as unnecessary. But our company wouldn't exist without it.
Read More »Tapping the Prison Market
It's one of America's fastest-growing and most innovative markets. Here's how one California company tapped it. Like most law -abiding citizens, Peggy Cross never expected to find herself in a penitentiary—let alone a prison riot
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