http://magazine.mst.edu/ en Copyright 2008 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:06:19 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Pearl millet, a hardy grain that is abundant in even the harshest regions of Africa and India, is a staple for many of the world’s poorest people. But removing the edible seed from the chaff is hard work. Traditional threshing techniques usually involve women pounding the plant with mortar and pestle.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/a_freewheeling_solution_to_pov.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/a_freewheeling_solution_to_pov.html Research Winter 2008 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:06:19 -0600 When corporate America first started talking about lean manufacturing in the 1980s and 1990s, they were looking at ways to cut costs while maintaining customer satisfaction. These days, companies are also interested in portraying themselves as environmentally conscious, but are concerned about the costs associated with green initiatives.

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nation’s power grid into an Internet of sorts for energy - a grid that will speed renewable electric-energy technologies into every home and business.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/building_an_energy_superhighwa.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/building_an_energy_superhighwa.html Research Winter 2008 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:02:31 -0600 You probably won’t be able to drive down the highway in your own non-polluting vehicle that runs on hydrogen power any time soon. Nor will you be powering your whole house with hydrogen-based technology in the coming years. Someday soon, though, you might own a cell phone equipped with a hydrogen-powered fuel cell instead of a battery. The cell phone would come with an insert-ready hydrogen pack and a small solar array for charging.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/hydrogen_the_hype_and_the_hope.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/11/hydrogen_the_hype_and_the_hope.html Research Winter 2008 Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:59:14 -0600 ]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/an_ecochallenge_for_engineers.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/an_ecochallenge_for_engineers.html Fall 2008 Research Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:50:58 -0600 http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/st_students_take_second_in_met.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/st_students_take_second_in_met.html Fall 2008 Research Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:44:26 -0600 http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/a_big_look_into_the_ultra_smal.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/a_big_look_into_the_ultra_smal.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:18:15 -0600 In one corner of a huge civil engineering laboratory on campus, Ronaldo Luna watches a machine shake silt from the Mississippi River until it liquefies.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/what_we_dont_know_about_liquef.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/what_we_dont_know_about_liquef.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:13:54 -0600 With 12 inland ports and increasing biofuel production, Missouri can increase its use and capacity of freight traffic on the state’s waterways. http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/getting_more_out_of_missouris.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/getting_more_out_of_missouris.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:10:43 -0600 http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/greening_in_a_bottle.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/greening_in_a_bottle.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:06:13 -0600 http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/missouri_st_has_a_new.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/missouri_st_has_a_new.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:57:21 -0600 A new treatment in development at Missouri S&T could improve the quality of life for more than 36 million people currently infected with HIV. One-third of adults with HIV and half of children with HIV develop HIV-1 associated dementia, which causes behavioral and cognitive dysfunctions.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/antioxidants_could_reduce_hivr.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/antioxidants_could_reduce_hivr.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:47:25 -0600 Although former Vice President Al Gore got most of the credit in the media for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the award was shared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). A team of Missouri S&T researchers were integral to the IPCC’s work and in April 2008 the group received official recognition of their “substantial contributions” to the award by the IPCC.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/emissions_research_takes_off_c.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/09/emissions_research_takes_off_c.html Fall 2008 Research Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:29:30 -0600 If Yinfa Ma’s res­earch holds up, pregnant women and those on probation won’t be the only ones asked to pee in a cup. Ma, Curators’ Teaching Professor of chemistry, has developed a non-invasive instrument for pre-cancer screening that uses urine samples to detect cancer in the body and predict the cancer’s type and severity using a group of biomarkers.

]]> http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/06/a_no_1_tool_for_early_cancer_d.html http://magazine.mst.edu/2008/06/a_no_1_tool_for_early_cancer_d.html Research Summer 2008 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:35:52 -0600 The ultrasmall holds huge possibilities for the future if you ask Julia E. Medvedeva, assistant professor of physics.

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