Medical Sciences

Medical Sciences advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, but they also help us prevent disease in the first place. Too numerous to name, the medical sciences continuously make miraculous breakthroughs that extend lifetimes and expand our ability to experience life.

Science Of Innovation: Biometrics

Science Of Innovation: Biometrics

A method for capturing and analyzing the vein patterns in the white part of the eye to help identify people. Biometrics has potential applications for driver’s licenses, passports or computer identification control.

Origami Chemistry: NYU Professor Folds Molecules

Origami Chemistry: NYU Professor Folds Molecules

21st Century Chemist Kent Kirshenbaum of New York University engineers and folds synthetic peptoids in hopes of creating “hunter-killer” molecules that can target and destroy deadly bacteria like staph (MRSA).

Climate, Weather, And Health

Climate, Weather, And Health

hat’s a medical anthropologist doing at an atmospheric research center? NCAR’s Mary Hayden describes efforts to understand the connections between climate, weather, and health.

Interactive Robot Helps Children With Autism

Interactive Robot Helps Children With Autism

What if a robot could help children with autism learn? That's the question researchers at Vanderbilt University wanted to answer by developing an interactive robot with the help of some young children with autism.

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NSF Science Now series spotlights NSF science and engineering research and discoveries

Science Behind The News: Bio-Inspired Materials

Science Behind The News: Bio-Inspired Materials

In the search for the next groundbreaking tough material, scientists like David Kisalus from the University of California, Riverside are looking to nature for inspiration, including under the sea where one little crustacean packs a walloping punch - the peacock mantis shrimp.

Science Of Innovation: Electronic Tattoo

Science Of Innovation: Electronic Tattoo

A micro-electronic health monitor so thin, light and portable that it can attach right to the surface of skin and go wherever a person goes. This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the field of healthcare technology.

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NSF Science Now series spotlights NSF science and engineering research and discoveries

Wearable Robot Helps Paraplegics Walk

Wearable Robot Helps Paraplegics Walk

Vanderbilt University researchers have developed a 'remarkable' wearable robot that helps some paraplegics get out of their wheelchair and walk again, even going up and down stairs. A Middle Tennessee man shares his emotional story from the life-altering accident to standing up and walking again, using the new robotic prototype.

Baby Brainpower

Baby Brainpower

A variety of UC Berkeley research on babies and young children is revealing how well and how early in life humans are able to perform complicated thinking tasks, sometimes better than computers. In fact, scientists are even trying to develop computer programs that can mimic what's going on in babies' brains.

Science of Innovation: Bionic Limbs

Science of Innovation: Bionic Limbs

Professor Homayoon Kazerooni is a robotics engineer at the University of California, Berkeley with more than 40 patents to his name. His research on exoskeletons relies on more than just ingenuity and engineering expertise, it's also an example of how inspiration can play a part in the innovation process, the simple desire to help other humans.

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NSF Science Now series spotlights NSF science and engineering research and discoveries

Genomics Of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Genomics Of Autism Spectrum Disorders

Three talks and a Q&A panel discussion featuring experts on ASD from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

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NSF Science Now series spotlights NSF science and engineering research and discoveries

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NSF Science Now series spotlights NSF science and engineering research and discoveries