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Carbon nanotube speakers play music using heat and two Michigan Tech graduate students received an award recently for their work improving the technology.

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A research team out of Michigan Tech has found a way to solve one of the biggest challenges of making metamaterials. Their optical work is a big step towards creating a "perfect lens".

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Michigan Tech researchers are making better heat exchangers for industrial use using the same plastic as in garbage bags.

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Thomas Werner, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Michigan Tech, has bridged the miniscule and the massive in an effort to better understand the mechanisms behind several unique features of fruit fly genes.

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Old rocks hold on to their secrets. Now, a geophysicist at Michigan Technological University has unlocked clues trapped in the magnetic signatures of mineral grains in those rocks. These clues will help clear up the murky history of the Earth’s early core.

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As drought continues, and demand grows, researchers like Alex Mayer from Michigan Technological University are looking to new models to improve the Rio Grande region's drought resiliency.

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Most people see defects as flaws. A few Michigan Technological University researchers, however, see them as opportunities. Twin boundary defects may present an opportunity to improve lithium-ion batteries.

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Researchers at Michigan Technological University are working on 3D bioprinting synthetic tissue that could help regenerate nerve cells in patients with spinal cord injuries.

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Detecting problems with lysosomes is the focus of a new set of fluorescent probes developed by researchers at Michigan Technological University. The Royal Society of Chemistry published their work in January.

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For the first time, the same Golden-winged Warbler has been caught at both a migration hotspot and in his wintering grounds.

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Every year, many bird researchers catch warblers, finches, thrushes and other feathered travelers to better understand their routes and migration patterns. A number of conservation initiatives seek to secure land to help species make their trek thousands of miles southward. But without a collective vision, these efforts may not be enough to protect birds in the Great Lakes region.

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Buying plastic filament for 3-D printing can be expensive. But a Michigan Technological University researcher and his students have whittled the cost of printing to ten cents per kilogram — down from $30 per kilogram.

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A mechanical engineer and his team have developed a computer-controlled camera that enables their robotic ankle to see where it is going.

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After a forest fire, logging companies often follow to do what is called salvage logging—salvaging the timber that has not been completely destroyed by the fire. The economic benefit is clear. But the ecological effects are unknown.

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Photonic booms--flashes that are faster than the speed of light--may turn out to help illuminate a variety of astronomical objects such as asteroids and the moon.

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Using indium tin oxide, a common coating in modern electronics, an engineer developed a biosensor that enables simultaneous electrical measurements and visual observation.

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Birds fly into windows all the time, often killing themselves. The student chapter of The Wildlife Society at Michigan Tech is researching these collisions at buildings on campus, hoping to develop some protective solutions.

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If natural or manmade disaster strikes, causing global crop failures, the world won't starve--providing they are willing to eat bacterial slime and bugs.

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A biomedical engineer at Michigan Tech has designed a "virtual breast," a software program that could help medical practitioners learn to read ultrasound elastography more accurately.

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Biomedical engineers at Michigan Technological University have designed a 3D, computer-generated "virtual breast" that can help clinicians learn to interpret screening data more accurately.

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Scientists have discovered that lithium ions stress and strain on battery materials. These changes may help explain why most anodes made of layered materials eventually fail.

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New standards could raise workers' living standards and help clean up the earth and its oceans.

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Michigan Technological University engineers has developed a tabletop model of robotic first responders that can bring power to places that need it the most—like communications towers.

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International students at Michigan Technological University have teamed up with Dining Services at the Houghton, Mich., campus to cook and serve the cuisine of their home countries.

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An interdisciplinary lab at Michigan Tech's Great Lakes Research Center brings air, earth and water scientists together to study climate and environmental issues.

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Scientists are concerned about the impact climate change--particularly warming--may have on tropical rainforests. They are undertaking the first field study ever to find out.

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Three early-career women scientists are spearheading a first-ever field study of the effects of global warming on tropical rainforests. Their experimental site is a national forest in Puerto Rico.

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With better brains, underwater drones would spend less time searching and more time finding their target, including airliners lost at the bottom of the ocean. If one scientist has her way, the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles will have a much better chance of getting it right.

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There is a proven system for sustainable management of northern hardwood forests. Everyone subscribes to it, but a study shows few are actually doing it.

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A new TV documentary airing 3 times in May follows a team of mechanical engineering students from Michigan Technological University as they build a better handcycle for wounded veteran athletes, with support from GM,.

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There's an established, accepted and effective system for sustainable management of northern hardwood forests. The only thing is, although they give lip service, almost no one is using it.

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Inbreeding is killing off the wolves of Isle Royale National Park, and as a result, the moose are proliferating, threatening the vegetation on the remote Lake Superior island.

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Most people are fed up with winter, but Guy Meadows loves it. Ice and snow give the director of Michigan Technological University’s Great Lakes Research Center (GLRC) in the frigid Upper Peninsula of Michigan a chance to do something few others can: study the Great Lakes under a cover of ice.

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Former astronaut and NFL football player Leland D. Melvin will be the speaker at Michigan Technological University's 2014 Spring Commencement.

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A meta-data analysis has uncovered more than 1,000 genes in rice that may be key targets for developing new strains of super rice.

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Two Michigan Technological University chefs are holding classes to help faculty and staff learn to cook and eat more nutritiously.

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The spiny water flea, aka Bythotrephes, is devouring its way through the Great Lakes and into the surrounding inland waters, including Minnesota's Voyageurs National Park, disrupting an entire ecosystem from the bottom up.

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Scientists are aiming for a simple, practical way to remediate mine waste laced with copper and other toxic elements. And, they are shedding light on the inner workings of the plants and bacteria that do the cleanup.

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Using iron ions and chemistry found in the adhesive proteins of a certain mollusk, Bruce P. Lee has developed a hydrogel actuator that moves when its pH is raised.

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A life-cycle analysis led by Joshua Pearce of Michigan Technological University shows that making your own plastic 3D printer filament from milk jugs uses less energy—often a lot less—than recycling milk jugs conventionally.

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An aquaponics project studying the interdependence of fish and plants winds up rolled in tortillas and served with organic coleslaw.

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Engineered tissues like the ones used to create artificial skin need a scaffold for cells to grow on. Now a team led by Michigan Technological University’s Feng Zhao has coaxed cells called fibroblasts into creating a scaffold that mimics the body’s own internal matrix, and in early tests, cells seem happy to set up residence.

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Lake Superior is more than 90 percent iced over, and experts say it may be covered completely before winter's end. Someone has proposed a hike across Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron and Lake Erie are 95 percent frozen. But even without 100 percent ice cover, the icy lakes are having a major effect on the environment around them.

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A technological breakthrough on the horizon: a new kind of smart phone that sends scents.

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A winter wonderland will welcome college students competing to build the greenest, quietest snow machines.

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An ingenious new technique may open up new vistas for scientists seeking to understand health and disease at the most fundamental level.