It's been nearly 5 years since the island nation of Haiti was rocked to its core by the a massive earthquake. And, in the aftermath, Haiti has made some promising progress—but it's far from where it was 6 years ago.
Stanford Graduate student Elliot Hawkes took on the task of creating a Gecko-inspired controllable adhesive for part of his dissertation project. The resulting product is causing excitement far beyond the mechanical engineering department at Stanford.