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Human Elements: Using bird wings to build better planes
Zoology researcher Vikram Baliga is turning everything we know about flight on its head by studying how birds take to the sky.
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Human Elements: When science stations you in space
NASA astronaut Anne McClain’s perspective on her work changes when she’s 250 miles above the planet.
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Human Elements: Healing forests with fire
By studying how Indigenous societies use fire, ecologist Ernesto Alvarado is learning how we can fight wildfires.
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Human Elements: Through origami, science unfolds
Aeronautics professor Jinkyu ‘JK’ Yang informs design, medicine and the future of space travel with a single sheet of folding paper.
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Human Elements: Studying stars by going back in time
Emily Levesque studies the moment of mystery when a star dies — the millisecond when its bright light explodes into a