As the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Ida approaches later this summer, researchers across Penn show that flooding was not a statistical anomaly but the result of compounding forces—climate change, urbanization, and infrastructure—that are reshaping flood risk. By building a street-level model of the Schuylkill River, the team has identified a critical tipping point at which floods become uncontained, offering new insight into how urban rivers behave under extreme conditions.

New standards have been proposed into the decades’ old prosthetic donations market, improving the quality of lower limb prosthetic feet by two-thirds.

Broken or disrupted circuits in the brain contribute to many neurological disorders. A new custom-built biological “wire” developed at Duke University School of Medicine points the way toward a new treatment approach — bypassing broken brain connections, rather than relying on long-term medication or external stimulation.