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Engineers are looking to schools of fish and flocks of birds to help develop better machines. Robustness, scalability, and the ability to function without complex central control are desirable features of artificial systems, and they can be found all over the natural world. --by Margaret Coulombe

K-12 students are literally stepping into learning with ASU's interactive SMALLab. Through advanced technology, students manipulate a multidimensional, multisensory environment in order to learn about everything from physics to oceanography to language arts. --by Sheilah Britton

Scientists at ASU's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has erupted on the Red Planet. --by Robert Burnham

Nanotechnology is a world of the minuscule. By manipulating matter at atomic and molecular levels, scientists have the potential to radically change consumer technology, health care, energy, and national security.
(Part 1 of 3) --by Joe Kullman

The work of a nurse is connected to the life of a patient. Researchers at ASU and Mayo Clinic Hospital are helping nurses manage stress. Their work will help both nurses and the patients they care for. --by Diane Boudreau

ASU professors have pooled their intellectual resources to formally tackle some of the developing world's most intractable problems. The result is a social entrepreneurship program called GlobalResolve. --by Adelheid Fischer

Heart rate variability, the measure of beat-to-beat changes in heart rate, may play a key role in reducing stress and improving well-being. by Diane Boudreau

ASU bioengineering professors are designing electrical stimulation devices that interact with the nervous system to contract paralyzed muscles. Such devices can help the nervous system recover after devastating spinal cord injury. --by Melissa Crytzer Fry

For decades there has been a controversy about whales eating fish in the tropics. The debate has been at the heart of policy decisions about the culling of whales and is pivotal to the future of commercial whaling in the region. New research, however, shows that culling whales in an attempt to restore fish populations is not scientifically sound. --by Margaret Coulombe

What makes some people natural leaders? Business professor Pierre Balthazard believes it's all in their heads, and he's working with neuroscientists to look into the brain and find out how. --by Jessica McCann