Josie Ford
Seeking a soft landing
The elegant structure of a naturally evolved cat’s paw has inspired a new way to protect paratroopers’ legs. This adventure is sketched in a study called . The idea is to replace the current kind of shoe soles with something more resembling what one can find by disassembling a cat.
The need is great. Paratroopers, says the study, “have always been the personnel at the highest risk of injury in the military, and their lower extremity injuries…
