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Released: 2-May-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Researchers Create Shape-Memory Aerogels with Rubber-Like Elasticity
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Chemists from Missouri University of Science and Technology have made aerogels that have rubber-like elasticity and can “remember” their original shapes.

Released: 24-Apr-2017 5:05 PM EDT
AI and E-Commerce: A Perfect Storm for Retail Jobs
Missouri University of Science and Technology

If you work in retail sales, it might be time to explore a new career. Dr. Keng Siau, chair and professor of business and information technology, writes that online retailers like Amazon are “crushing” brick-and-mortar department stores in terms of sales and these online retailers are replacing their retail salespeople with “AI, robotics, and machine learning,” or, as Siau has taken to calling them, “salesmachines.”

Released: 24-Apr-2017 4:05 PM EDT
S&T Physicist Improves Particle Interaction Modeling
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Quantum electrodynamics is a lot like baking a cake. At least, that is what physicist Dr. Ulrich Jentschura equates to the process of creating an equation that can couple particles’ and antiparticles’ predicted masses at the same time.

Released: 19-Apr-2017 8:05 PM EDT
Associate Missouri S&T Engineering Dean Earns Outstanding Educator Award
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. John Myers selected as a top educator by the Architectural Engineering Institute.

Released: 13-Apr-2017 10:05 AM EDT
How World of Warcraft Can Get You a Job
Missouri University of Science and Technology

A new study by researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology found that World of Warcraft (WoW) gamers who were successful working as a team in “raids” had qualities that psychological studies have shown to translate to success on virtual workplace teams.

Released: 12-Apr-2017 4:05 PM EDT
Missouri S&T Miner Tank Fuels Student Innovation
Missouri University of Science and Technology

From a proposal to create synthetic amino acids to help meth babies recover from addiction to the design of a new type of robotic joint to simplify complex movements, some inventive ideas of several Missouri University of Science and Technology students are a step closer to reality thanks to the university’s Miner Tank project.

Released: 4-Apr-2017 10:05 AM EDT
Wound Care Technology Invented at Missouri S&T Hits Marketplace
Missouri University of Science and Technology

A glass-based wound care product that emerged from research by a doctoral student at Missouri University of Science and Technology has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for human use and is now available on the commercial market.

Released: 4-Apr-2017 9:30 AM EDT
Military Expert Addresses 100th Anniversary of U.S. Entrance Into World War I
Missouri University of Science and Technology

It was the “War to End All Wars,” and America’s entrance into the conflict on April 6, 1917, dramatically shifted World War I in favor of the Allies. “The U.S. had a major impact on the outcome of World War I,” says military historian Dr. John C. McManus, the author of 12 books on war and military history.

Released: 3-Apr-2017 1:05 PM EDT
Missouri S&T Students Host 24-Hour Artificial Intelligence Coding Competition
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Sleep will be at a premium this weekend at Missouri University of Science and Technology as a computer science student group hosts a 24-hour artificial intelligence coding competition.

Released: 29-Mar-2017 11:00 AM EDT
Grant Builds Bridge Between Humanities and Engineering at Missouri S&T
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T’s humanities departments – history and political science; English and technical communication; and arts, languages, and philosophy – have received a $100,000 Humanities Connections grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop a series of four courses related to Latin American studies.

 
Released: 21-Mar-2017 1:25 PM EDT
New Mass Effect Game Could Make or Break Franchise, Researchers Say
Missouri University of Science and Technology

The fallout from the poorly received ending of the third video game in the popular series Mass Effect could doom the upcoming release of “Mass Effect: Andromeda,” say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

   
Released: 16-Mar-2017 2:00 PM EDT
Research Leads to a Golden Discovery for Wearable Technology
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Writing in the March 17 issue of the journal Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers say they have developed a way to “grow” thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon, remove the gold foils, and use them as substrates on which to grow other electronic materials.

Released: 27-Feb-2017 1:05 PM EST
Program Prepares Nation’s Future Researchers
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Many of the nation’s future engineering and science researchers are preparing for their careers in the laboratories of Missouri University of Science and Technology, thanks to more than $2.2 million in federal funding through a program designed to encourage more students to pursue Ph.D.s in those fields.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 6:05 PM EST
With Scholars’ Mine, Over 1 Million Served Globally
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Somewhere on the lower west side of Chicago, an internet user seeking information about photografting – a technique for attaching polymers to surfaces – struck gold with a visit to Scholars’ Mine (http://scholarsmine.mst.edu), Missouri University of Science and Technology’s online repository of research papers, creative works and other documents.

Released: 22-Feb-2017 5:00 PM EST
S&T Researcher Studies Next Generation Phones, Cars
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T professor studies electromagnetic interference in cellphones to lay groundwork for next-generation 5G phones.

Released: 3-Feb-2017 10:05 AM EST
Missouri S&T Research Team Helps Boeing Set Up Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology recently worked with The Boeing Company to establish a new nondestructive evaluation laboratory that uses millimeter wave technology to improve the detection of potential flaws in coatings, surfaces and materials.

   
Released: 1-Feb-2017 4:05 PM EST
Missouri S&T Researcher Works to Develop Nanodiamond Materials
Missouri University of Science and Technology

By designing modified diamonds, a Missouri S&T researcher hopes to create diamond-based materials for multiple applications.

Released: 18-Jan-2017 9:05 AM EST
Researchers Develop Ways to Improve Machining, Milling Processes
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Fixing flaws introduced during the machining of large components used in the aircraft and heavy equipment industries can be time-consuming for manufacturers – and costly if they must scrap the flawed parts after they’ve been fabricated. A new approach developed by researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology is helping manufacturers eliminate those flaws before the parts are created.

   
Released: 11-Jan-2017 3:00 PM EST
Ants Need Work-Life Balance, Research Suggests
Missouri University of Science and Technology

The work habits of ants could provide valuable insight into making our societies more productive and sustainable, says a team of Missouri S&T researchers.

Released: 3-Jan-2017 12:05 PM EST
Additive Manufacturing: A New Twist for Stretchable Electronics?
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Electronic components that can be elongated or twisted – known as “stretchable” electronics – could soon be used to power electronic gadgets, the onboard systems of vehicles, medical devices and other products.

Released: 21-Dec-2016 1:05 PM EST
S&T Historian’s Latest Book Focuses on Jewish Post-Holocaust Reconstruction in France
Missouri University of Science and Technology

After World War II, French Holocaust survivors returned to their homes to find them stripped of personal belongings and occupied by new inhabitants. Attempts to reclaim those belongings were key in efforts to rebuild Jewish political and social inclusion after the war, says historian Shannon Fogg.

Released: 19-Dec-2016 9:00 AM EST
New Approach to Water Splitting Could Improve Hydrogen Production
Missouri University of Science and Technology

A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece have demonstrated a more efficient, less cost-prohibitive way to split water into its elements of hydrogen and oxygen. Their approach could make hydrogen fuel a more viable energy source in the future while addressing the technological challenge of developing clean and renewable energy without depleting earth’s natural preserves.

13-Dec-2016 10:00 AM EST
Biomaterials Expert Delbert Day Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Dr. Delbert E. Day, a prolific inventor whose work with specialty glasses has led to treatments for cancer, bone tissue regeneration and wound care, has been named a National Academy of Inventors Fellow.

Released: 6-Dec-2016 10:00 AM EST
Robotic Bridge Inspection, Preservation Is Focus of New Transportation Center
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Your commute to work may be smoother in the future, thanks to new federally funded research at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Released: 2-Dec-2016 5:05 PM EST
Electronically Picking Your Brain -- for Market Research
Missouri University of Science and Technology

A researcher at Missouri University of Science and Technology wants to scrap the traditional electronic and paper survey approaches to gathering marketing and information systems data in favor of scanning your brainwaves.

Released: 14-Nov-2016 10:05 AM EST
S&T Students Help Homeless in Globalhack
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T student teams won first and second at the GlobalHack VI in St. Louis. Teams were charged with designing systems to help the homeless.

Released: 9-Nov-2016 11:05 AM EST
10 Missouri S&T Grads Named Alumni of Influence
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Ten graduates of Missouri University of Science and Technology were honored as Missouri S&T’s 2016 Alumni of Influence during a special event Saturday, Nov. 5, at Hasselmann Alumni House on the Missouri S&T campus.

Released: 13-Oct-2016 9:40 AM EDT
Researchers Create 3-D Full-Color Holographic Images with Nanomaterials
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are creating a new approach to reconstruct 3-D full-color holographic images by using just one layer of nanoscale metallic film. This work has a huge potential to change our daily lives by equipping our cell phones with 3-D floating displays and printing 3-D security marking onto credit cards.

Released: 6-Oct-2016 11:05 AM EDT
World's First Engineering Management Program Celebrates 50 Years
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Training engineers to manage complex organizations is now accepted practice on many college campuses as well as in the modern workplace. Combining the worlds of technical-oriented problem solvers and bottom-line number crunchers into its own academic discipline? A half-century ago, that notion took root not in a corporate boardroom, but on the campus of what is now Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Released: 22-Sep-2016 9:15 AM EDT
Low Oil Prices Reduce Pain at the Pump
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T professor Joseph Smith explains why oil prices -- and gas prices -- remain low across the United States.

   
Released: 2-Sep-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Wearable Tracker Keeps Tabs on Patients, Soldiers
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Wearable sensing device tracks movements, ambient environment, bio-signals and more.

Released: 1-Sep-2016 10:05 AM EDT
‘Care Chair’ Helps Detect Patients’ Movements, Mental State
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri S&T researchers create chair that detects daily behavior and mental state of elderly patients or those subject to dementia.

Released: 30-Aug-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Research by Missouri S&T Faculty Could Prevent Next Major Human-Related Disaster
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Headline-grabbing disasters like the Chernobyl nuclear incident and the Exxon Valdez oil spill could have been prevented through better labor practices, like shorter shifts and more structured shift rotations, say two Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers in a new book on risk management.

   
Released: 26-Aug-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Missouri S&T Expert to Present at Governor’s Cybersecurity Summit
Missouri University of Science and Technology

A computer science professor from Missouri University of Science and Technology will join top government hackers, corporate risk managers and information technology professionals at the inaugural Governor’s Cybersecurity Summit this week in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Released: 5-Aug-2016 8:05 AM EDT
Ph.D. Student Conducting Research to Restore Historic Mines
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Thanks to the work of a Missouri University of Science and Technology doctoral student in civil and environmental engineering and her faculty mentors, mine remediation of former mine tailings impoundments could receive an organic boost from a product most communities are eager to get rid of — sewage sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant.

Released: 27-Jun-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Missouri S&T Physicist Works to Predict Atom Movement
Missouri University of Science and Technology

By laser-cooling atom clusters and studying their movements, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher hopes to better understand how atoms and their components are impacted and directed by environmental factors.

Released: 24-May-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Missouri S&T Researcher Tracks Subsurface Water Flow
Missouri University of Science and Technology

By combining computational mathematics and several engineering disciplines, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher hopes to consistently predict the underground flow of water through porous terrain with large fractures and channels.

Released: 5-May-2016 9:05 AM EDT
Missouri S&T Team Boosts Lithium-Ion Battery Performance
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers are working to solve the problem of short-life of lithium-ion batteries like those used in laptops and cellphones, making them reliable and longer-lasting using a thin-film coating technique called atomic layer deposition (ALD).



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