A researcher in Michigan Technological University's Institute of Materials Processing has developed a new manufacturing approach that combines casting, forging, powder metallurgy, bonding, and coating in one process to produce high performance components at lower cost for a variety of industries.
A researcher at Michigan Technological University has found a way to control polymer reactions and permit scientists to create tailor-made polymeric materials with unique properties. The development could facilitate the manufacture of valuable new commercial products.
A cockpit display system being developed at Michigan Technological University would alert pilots of small planes about other aircraft in the vicinity and drastically reduce the number of mid-air collisions.
Residents of tornado-prone areas across the country may soon be able to purchase an inexpensive form of protection that will warn them when a tornado is approaching.
After several years of concern about whether wolves would survive the ravages of canine parvovirus on Isle Royale National Park, park officials and researchers have now turned the focus of their attention to the island's moose herd.
Scientists at four universities have received National Science Foundation grants totaling more than $1 million for a collaborative study of the effects of soil nitrogen on plant growth in forest ecosystems. A research team from Michigan Technological University is involved.
A Michigan Technological University researcher has received a $150,000 grant from the Department of Energy and a $19,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service to conduct a three-year project monitoring the exchange of carbon dioxide and water between the atmosphere and a Douglas fir forest in the Wind River region of southern Washington.
Dynamic hardness testing is a time-consuming, complex, costly task. Now researchers at Michigan Technological University have found a way that could render these elaborate and costly tests absolete.
Researchers from Michigan Technological University, Notre Dame, and the University of Minnesota have embarked on a joint effort to determine how wetland ecosystems respond to global warming.
Researchers from Michigan Tech University and the Forest Service Science Lab at Rhinelander, WI are studying the effects of landscape structure on plant species, habitat, and economic output in public forests.
Within the next 5 years, residents of the Great Lakes region may see their dependence on road salt decrease, along with a decrease in landfill wastes.
Imagine a world where we could predict when an airplane rivet was about to break or a pipe about to burst; the part could be replaced before it caused a serious problem. Researchers at Michigan Tech and Carnegie Mellon are searching for ways to make it happen.
Researchers at Michigan Technological University are working to develop new techniques for sensing distortions in space telescopes.
If you own stocks or an export business and the uncertainty in Asian financial markets has you worried, don't expect any big changes soon.
In high-end electronics, where success hinges on being lighter,faster, and smaller, size is the biggest barrier to progress. Researchers at Michigan Tech have discovered little tin "worms" that could have important potential.
Officials at Isle Royale National Park reported today that more than half of the timber wolves present on the Lake Superior island park last year have died.
Researchers at Michigan Tech University are studying an enzyme that is being used to help clean up the environment and has great potential to be part of the solution to the global problem of excess nitrate and related nitrogen nutrients in water sources.
The pending international Treaty on Global Warming proposed at a recent UN-sponsored conference in Kyoto, Japan has one educator wondering if the treaty's rationale is based more on politics than science. Dr. Vernon Dorweiler of Michigan Tech's School of Business and Economics answers his own question by saying, "It's one chance in a hundred it's science."
Bullet-proof cashmere? Well, maybe not. But Michigan Tech's Gerard Caneba's new polymer process has investors looking at building all kinds of new substances that tie together all kinds of contradictory properties.
Michigan Tech researchers are studying ecosystem responses to global change in old growth forests in an attempt to find a part of the solution to the greenhouse effect problem.
Researchers are looking at a new method that would give decision-makers a multi-objective tool to help them solve groundwater remediation problems.
Two Michigan Tech researchers have found a way to move some of Nature's most delicate objects with the precision of pieces on a chess board.
The National Park Service is providing $100,000 to fund a 3-year study of timber wolves in Minnesota and Upper Michigan.
Four years ago, when the sun never set on the golden global economy, Michigan Technological University's Peck Cho said it couldn't last.
Researchers at Michigan Tech will spend the next three years trying to devise the best possible way to use high quality seismic data to determine the value of the nation's oil and gas reservoirs.
Researchers at Michigan Tech are hoping a new process they developed for creating liquid methanol from methane will open the door for greater commercial use of this plentiful gas.
Researchers at Michigan Technological University and Arizona State University have launched an open Internet based workshop on pollution prevention research and teaching in higher education.
Researchers at Michigan Technological University are developing ways to use wastes from the aluminum industry to manufacture a variety of commercially valuable products.
The wolves of Isle Royale National Park have surprised scientists again by staging a dramatic comeback just when wildlife managers were worried that the island park's most storied species might be headed for trouble.
A Michigan Tech-based Internet service is helping the chemical industry comply with government regulations.
Michigan Tech researchers have found a way to reduce the evolution of toxic gas from ferrosilicon.
America is trying to cope with many thousands of contamination sites, and each one is unique. But a team of researchers at Michigan Tech has developed a series of software packages to make the cleanup a lot easier.
Researchers at Michigan Tech have genetically engineered a new breed of aspen that could revolutionize pulp and paper production.
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Michigan Tech has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to study some very strange--and potentially very useful--materials.
The way wolves respond to significant climate changes can have far-reaching effects on the ecosystems in which they live, according to an article by Michigan Tech University researchers in the Oct. 28 issue of Nature magazine.
A researcher at Michigan Technological University hopes to find an exercise regimen that will prevent fainting in persons who are otherwise healthy.
A 10,000-year-old buried forest, preserved virtually intact in sand and water, has been studied by researchers at Michigan Technological University and Harvard (Journal of Ecology, 2-21-00).
A home test kit that will enable HIV-infected individuals to monitor their condition themselves and avoid unnecessary trips to the doctor is being designed by Michigan Tech researchers.
The wolves of Isle Royale National Park are doing well and should continue to hold their own in the foreseeable future, according to a survey of the island's wolf and moose populations.
Michigan Tech researchers are transferring altered genes into fungi that facilitate the flow of nutrients through tree roots to help trees protect themselves against disease and insects.
There are fewer wolves on Isle Royale this year than last, but those that remain are experiencing the best of times.
If you want to measure air pollution drifting across the North Atlantic, there's just one place on earth to do it. Thus, it was on top of a volcano, Pico mountain in the Azores, that a research team lowered a laboratory the size of an ice-fishing shanty, with considerable assistance from a Portuguese Air Force helicopter crew, on July 2.
When picking out the perfect tree, consider what you pine for.
A mild winter is behind a decline in the wolf population at Isle Royale National Park, home of a 44-year study on the predator-prey relationship between wolves and moose.
An ultrasound device that features a lens only one millimeter across could help prevent coronary arteries from re-blocking following bypass surgery.
A Michigan Tech faculty member has taken 150 very special trees back to the country of their ancestors.
Now in its third year, Michigan Technological University's Enterprise Program is giving 400 students a serious (and unprecedented) introduction to the world of troubleshooting, R&D, manufacturing and market research.
When picking out the perfect tree, consider what you pine for.
The trees of the future may be much more vulnerable to a variety of pests, say scientists studying greenhouse gases in northern Wisconsin forests.
Dr. Charles Nelson has been teaching J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" at Michigan Tech since 1973, a labor of love that hasn't grown cold in three decades.
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