California’s huge new desert surf park seen in action for the first time: ‘Best in the world’

DSRT Surf, the expansive new Palm Desert oasis set to open in late summer, recently threw its first super session, welcoming ...
Wilson Center

Algeria and Sudan: Sidelining the Military during the Second Wave of the Arab Spring

Algeria and Sudan both broke out in democratic movements in 2019. In both countries, movements have stalled and militaries reasserted control. While the extraction of the military from politics is ...
PNAS

Omnimodal topological polarization of bilayer networks: Analysis in the Maxwell limit and experiments on a 3D-printed prototype

While the mechanical properties of materials are canonically dictated by their composition, in the metamaterial paradigm, structural materials are endowed with unconventional properties via the ...
Frontiers

Utilization of Human-Like Pelvic Rotation for Running Robot

The spring loaded inverted pendulum is used to model human running. It is based on a characteristic feature of human running, in which the linear-spring-like motion of the standing leg is produced by ...