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Through neuroimaging, engineers discover that prosthetics that provide haptic sensory feedback lessen the mental energy users expend when using the device.

Jaafar El-Awady, associate professor of mechanical engineering, has co-authored research that reveals more clues about the microscopic mechanisms that govern the strength of metals. The findings were recently published in Nature Communications.

Kang has written a focus article about the fabrication of and potential applications for an electrically-controlled shape-memory microactuator that operates in a solution matching the ion concentration of the human body.

Using DNA as a scaffold, engineers create synthetic nanomaterial that could pave the way for rapid and more accurate diagnostic testing from a single molecule.

Mechanical engineer Charles Meneveau co-organized a mini-symposium on Wind Energy Fluid Mechanics at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics, where researchers described the promise and fluid dynamics challenges of wind energy.

Inspired by the famed Drake equation, the Contagion Airborne Transmission (CAT) inequality seeks to make sense of the many variables, including environmental ones, that can affect transmissibility of COVID-19.

In a paper published in Science, Johns Hopkins University researchers detail a new method for testing metals at a microscopic scale that allows them to rapidly inflict repetitive loads on materials while recording how ensuing damage evolves into cracks.

Wang and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers were awarded $3 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop a diagnostic device for self-testing HIV viral load.

A new robotic system designed by researchers from Johns Hopkins University’s Laboratory for Computational Sensing & Robotics may help hospitals preserve protective gear, limit staff exposure to COVID-19, and provide more time for clinical work.

When completed, the system will test for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in as few as 10 minutes and can be performed in healthcare facilities or the workplace.

Grants from the NIH-funded Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program (IREK12) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support Brown’s research on haptic perception in robotic applications.

Study led by Ryan Hurley reveals how and why granular materials respond to wave force, paving the way for a new understanding of how to design materials and technologies.