Offsetting coal would take covering nearly the whole country in forests: MTU study
HOUGHTON – How many fields of switchgrass and forests of trees would be needed to offset the energy produced by burning coal? A lot, it turns out. While demand for …
StabiLux Biosciences Receives $650,000 in Funding
HOUGHTON — StabiLux Biosciences, a company founded by Michigan Technological University physics professor Yoke Khin Yap, has recently been awarded more than $650,000. The funds are from America’s Seed Fund, …
Detecting cosmic rays from a galaxy far, far away
HOUGHTON — Where do cosmic rays come from? Solving a 50-year old mystery, a collaboration of researchers has discovered it’s much farther than the Milky Way.
MSU, Michigan Tech Advancing To Steel Bridge Nationals
EAST LANSING — The Spartan Spanners of the Michigan State University College of Engineering took first place overall honors in the 2015 North Central Student Steel Bridge Competition. It was …
Students Researching How to Prevent Bird-Window Collisions
HOUGHTON — A red flower makes a picturesque reflection in the window. But outside of it lays a dead hummingbird that has flown into the glass, trying to reach the …