What’s hot in science and engineering? Research news for the day of May 5, 2022

In early September 2020, severe winds, high heat and prolonged drought conditions led to the explosive growth of wildfires along the western slopes of the Cascade Mountains in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The fires engulfed enormous tracts of forestland, destroyed communities, …

A team of researchers based at Duke University and funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation leveraged their experience in optical coherence tomography — known as OCT, a noninvasive test used to image the retina — to refine and improve vision technology for robots …