Ingenious: Sustainable Substitutes
Professor D.K. Lee still remembers the Korean proverb his grandmother taught him: “Crops grow to the music of the farmer’s footsteps.” “She was trying to say that you need to
Ingenious: Body Rocks
When Bruce Fouke, Illinois professor of earth science and environmental change, first came to the Mayo Clinic to make a case for incorporating geology into medicine, its physicians had never
Ingenious: Smart Shirts
The Shirt on your back might just save your life. At the very least, it could provide warning signs that might prevent a cardiac event from striking out of nowhere.
Ingenious: The Best
When organizers of the Armour Institute in Chicago were seeking “the best man” to head their new library in 1893, they sought the advice of librarian Melvil Dewey, who created
Ingenious: Minecraft-Inspired
Zaida Luthey-Schulten was presenting one of her lab’s cell models at Seattle’s Allen Institute in 2021 when a Microsoft intern approached her and observed, “That model looks like it could
Ingenious: Bacteria Zapper
During thunderstorms, electric charges build up within and between clouds, as well as between clouds and the ground. When the difference in charges between the clouds and the ground grows
Ingenious: Crop Rings
If you drive to the university’s Crop Sciences and Education Center, commonly referred to as South Farms, you’ll find a historic 80-acre field that was the first of its kind
Ingenious: Engineered Healing
If computers can be programmed to perform a myriad of functions, then why can’t materials be programmed to do the same? And how could those programmed materials be applied to
Ingenious: Molecular Prosthetics
When Martin Burke, M.D., was making his rounds at Harvard Medical School in 1999, he visited a young woman suffering with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that can severely damage
Ingenious: Breaching Molecular Walls
Researchers have long run up against “a wall” in attempting to thwart some of the world’s deadliest bacteria. That’s because antibiotics cannot penetrate the membrane walls of those pathogens, says
