December 19, 2024

Digital twins of human organs are here. They’re set to transform medical treatment.

A healthy heart beats at a steady rate, between 60 and 100 times a minute. That’s not the case for all of us, I’m reminded, as I look inside a cardboard box containing around 20 plastic hearts—each a replica of a real human one. The hearts, which previously sat on a shelf in a lab…

A prosthetic leg that feels like a real body part

August 29, 2024
When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most prosthetics are static, cumbersome, and hard to move. Now a new neural interface developed by MIT researchers and colleagues connects a bionic lower limb to nerve endings in the thigh, allowing it to be controlled by the…

This 21-Year-Old College Student Just Made History

August 29, 2024
Karsen Kitchen, a student at UNC, just became the youngest female passenger to cross the Kármán Line. She was one of six passengers aboard Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin New Shepard 26 flight Thursday.

Architecting cloud data resilience

August 29, 2024
Cloud has become a given for most organizations: according to PwC’s 2023 cloud business survey, 78% of companies have adopted cloud in most or all parts of the business. These companies have migrated on-premises systems to the cloud seeking faster time to market, greater scalability, cost savings, and improved collaboration. Yet while cloud adoption is…