Treatments for osteoarthritis-related knee pain range from store-bought medication all the way up to total knee joint replacement. The recently trialled Misha Knee System is intended to help fill the ...

See how an autonomous robot created a shock-absorbing shape no human ever could -- and what it means for designing safer helmets, packaging, car bumpers, and more. Inside a lab in Boston University's ...

Granular materials, including sand and soil, have long been used to absorb impacts, but if the grains are all the same size, the shock waves are not always dispersed effectively. Instead, Sen’s team ...