Black and blue: different silicon drops cost of solar cells
HOUGHTON — At the end of one of the hottest summers on record, as fights rage on about how to power homes, renewable solar energy continues to present as an …
Endangered Species Act is popular — so why are politicians trying to gut it?
HOUGHTON — In the past two years, nearly 150 amendments, bills and legislative riders have aimed to weaken the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The law is often portrayed — by …
DENSO Foundation awards nearly $1M STEM grants to 25 colleges, universities
SOUTHFIELD — The DENSO North American Foundation announced that it will donate naerly $1 million in funding to 25 institutions of higher learning across North America to support science, technology, …
Break it down: Understanding chemical byproducts in water treatment
HOUGHTON — Synthetic chemicals are ever-present in modern life — in our medications, cosmetics and clothing — but what happens to them when they enter our municipal water supplies? We …
Michigan Tech faculty, alumni offer dispatches from Kilauea
HOUGHTON — Volcanoes are an ongoing source of fear and fascination for humanity. The heat and destructive power are both harbingers of destruction and heralds of creation. Kīlauea, Hawaii’s youngest …
Michigan Tech’s 60th Isle Royale wolf-moose study finds wolves struggling to survive
HOUGHTON – Researchers from Michigan Technological University have released the annual Winter Study report detailing updates on the ecology of Isle Royale National Park. For the third year in a …
In Michigan Tech research, a fluorescent probe IDs cancer cells fast
HOUGHTON – Determining the presence of cancer, as well as its type and malignancy, is a time-consuming process – patients can wait up to two stressful weeks for a diagnosis. …
Michigan Tech names LSU provost as its new president
HOUGHTON — Richard J. Koubek will lead the University as its 10th president, the Michigan Technological University Board of Trustees announced. Koubek, currently executive vice president and provost of Louisiana …
Mending broken hearts with new cells grown in molds
HOUGHTON — Two and a half billion. That’s approximately the number of times the human heart beats in 70 years. And sometimes during the course of its unrelenting contractions and …
Farm sunshine, not cancer: Michigan Tech study explores turning tobacco fields to solar arrays
HOUGHTON — Although tobacco use is the leading cause of avoidable death globally, farming tobacco continues to provide the primary source of income to many farmers. But two Michigan Technological …