Taking inspiration from claws and scales found in nature, a new, engineeed kirigami shoe sole technology could reduce slips and falls. A gripping tale from researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and MIT, with funding from the National Science Foundation.

Sooner than we may once have imagined, new technologies will leverage quantum properties in a shift to a "quantum world." For decades, the National Science Foundation has led strategic investments in foundational research and development that have jumpstarted teh quantum revolution. Now NSF is working to address key scientific and technological challenges that must be overcome to unleash its full potential.

A rare, transmissible tumor has brought the Tasmanian devil to the brink of extinction, but new research by NSF-funded scientists at Washington State University and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates hope for the animals' survival and possibly new treatments for human cancers.

With the right food in the right lab conditions, scientists have coaxed microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years to revive and multiply, even after the microbes lay dormant since large dinos prowled the planet. It's the work of a National Science Foundation-funded team at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography along with researchers in Japan.

A shield of graphene-wrapped nanospheres can help particles destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and free-floating antibiotic-resistant genes in wastewater treatment plants. The innovation comes from researchers in the NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nantechnology Enabled Water Treatment Systems (NEWT), based at Rice University, who also worked together with researchers at Tongji University.

Motors originally designed for the International Space Station are part of a new robotic prosthetic leg design that's more comfortable and offer users a more natural gait. It's the work of a National Science Foundation-funded team at the University of Michigan and University of Texas at Dallas.

A new handheld technology uses cell-free synthetic biology to test for 17 contaminants, costs pennies and takes minutes to work. The technology was developed by a team led by researchers at Northwestern University, with funding from the National Science Foundation.

A new multifunctional nanofiber could protect soldiers, firefighters, astronauts and others against explosions. Protective against both extreme temperatures and ballistic threats, the lightweight material was developed by NSF-funded researchers at Harvard University in collaboration with the U.S. Army.

UCLA engineers funded by the National Science Foundation have designed a thin adhesive film that could upgrade a consumer smartwatch into a powerful health monitoring system.

A University of Arizona discovery with funding from the National Science Foundation suggests that the Maya civilization developed more rapidly than archaeologists once thought and hints at less social inequity than in later periods.