♪ music ♪ jordan d'eri: in case you missed it… charlie heck: here's just some of the highlights from this week on nsf's science three-sixty. there's a new robotic exoskeleton in town, and it's doing what no other exoskeleton
3d printing service cape town, has done before; act natural. it's called harmony, and it could help deliver full upper-body therapy for patients suffering from spinal and neurological injuries. with fourteen axes to enable natural motion, data collection
two-thousand times a second, and tunable force and pressure to make it feel weightless, engineers believe harmony will one day help reduce patients' recovery time. jordan d'eri: i've got a riddle. what's small and sticky, found in the ocean, and can hold up to one-hundred and fifty times its own body weight? one of the world's best suction cups, the northern clingfish. in fact, this "suction cup" works so well, it continues to stick and unstick to both rough and smooth surfaces even after the fish has died. researchers
are looking at this fascinating fish for inspiration in designing surgical devices and instruments, even noninvasive long-term tagging tools for whales that don't puncture the skin. charlie heck: there's something in the water, and it shouldn't be there. one-four dioxane is turning up in rivers and streams all across north carolina. jordan d'eri: it's a possible human carcinogen current water treatment methods aren't able to remove. now, a team of
researchers is working towards helping to treat the problem at the source, before the chemical ever gets to the rivers and streams. male voice: the whole equation is very tricky. on one hand manufacturing activities create jobs. manufacturing activities lead to pollution. ideally, we would avoid this pollution at the source. if that doesn't happen, then in the end as a society we all have to pay for it. charlie heck: the team is also investigating the effectiveness
of low cost carbon filters to use at home. jordan d'eri: if this weekly wrap-up of all things
science isn't enough. charlie heck: and let's face it, how could it be… jordan d'eri: get your daily dose online at news.science360.gov.
