Press

Some of this work turns out to be easier to photograph or explain than it is to do, and now and then it gets picked up outside academic circles. What follows is what we know of.

Feet, fins and the arches of the foot

• Lower Extremity Review
  Overlooked arch in the foot is key to its evolution and function
• Physics World
  Transverse arch puts a spring in your step, biomechanics study reveals
• Nature India
  How the arches on our feet evolved
• Archaeology Magazine
  Curved feet may have helped hominins walk upright
• BBC Radio Scotland
  Newsdrive
  Newsdrive, with Mhairi Stuart
• National Geographic
  Why human feet evolved arches — and what happens if you lack them
• archedfoot.warwick.ac.uk
  The arched foot — a companion site to the Nature paper
• Nature
  Ahead of the curve in the evolution of human feet
• Human Frontier Science Program
  Curvature stiffens fish fins
• ScienceDaily
  Like a slice of pizza, a curvature could give fish fins their strength

The Cheerios effect

• ScienceDaily
  Visualizing floating cereal patterns to understand nanotechnology processes

Tidal and wind energy

• Rhode Island Public Radio
  Capturing a river's energy with wings
  Ocean State Media / The Public’s Radio
• The Providence Journal
  On the Taunton river, Brown researchers pursuing future of tidal energy
  Alex Kuffner · front page
• The Providence Journal
  Brown University engineers design unique device that could harness power of tides
  Alex Kuffner

Elsewhere

• Physics Today
  Making a splash