Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

A Q&A session on how to deal with the phenomenon of tin whisker growth. The tin whisker phenomenon is a failure mode associated with all electronic devices that use a number of low melting-point ...

Two Northwestern University engineers have been studying rat whiskers to learn how mechanical information from the whiskers gets to the rat's brain. The goal is to develop artificial whisker arrays ...

Missy Frederick is the Editorial Director for Eater’s dining team. She has covered the D.C. restaurant industry since 2007, offers expertise in business reporting and regional American dishes, and ...

A harbor seal’s whisker is shaped so that it can detect turbulence from its fleeing prey without being influenced by the seal’s own movements. How does this work in underwater sensor technology? Like ...

Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory ...

What is a tenth of the diameter of a human hair and only 1.5 mm long, but can shut down nuclear plants, misguide Patriot missiles, and cause the recall of thousands of quartz watches? The answer is ...

Rats have up to 70 whiskers on their faces, varying hugely in size and shape. Almost every mammal possesses whiskers, but these rodents are what we call “whisker specialists”, meaning they have ...