Engineers have developed an experimental strategy to control and observe the chemical reaction of a single nanocatalyst using an optical microscope -- Expected to contribute to catalyst design based ...

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical ...

In many communities around the world, students’ ability and enthusiasm to pursue STEM fields in their high school and college careers is limited by a lack of resources which prevent them from ...

Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — For more than 20 years, Matt Maschmann, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri, has worked with materials that require specialized ...

Astronaut Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) studied the effect of microgravity on bone density as well as on plants building their shape during his stay in the ...

When Eric Alm got food poisoning from eating the French toast special at a restaurant three years ago, he was ecstatic. Congratulatory notes from colleagues began to show up in his inbox. The ...

Galileo’s most famous experiment has taken a trip to outer space. The result? Einstein was right yet again. The experiment confirms a tenet of Einstein’s theory of gravity with greater precision than ...

Located in Dongguan City, south China's Guangdong Province, the China Spallation Neutron Source was put into use in August 2018. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei) These experiment proposals, including one applied by ...