Missouri University of Science and Technology News

ROLLA, Mo. - A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher has developed a new screening method that uses urinalysis to diagnose breast cancer - and determine its severity - before it could be detected with a mammogram.

Researchers at the Missouri University of Science & Technology have designed a new nanoscale material that can transmit light -- at least its phase front -- faster than the 186,000 miles per second it usually takes to go through air.

Larry Gragg's new book, "Bright Light City: Las Vegas in Popular Culture" traces the evolving perception of the town as it has been depicted in film, TV, fiction and journalism.

How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious food or impulsively check email because we find pleasure in the activity.

Newswise - ROLLA, Mo. -- The current method of inspecting bridges for structural damage is labor-intensive and, in some instances, dangerous to all involved.

Out in the wilds of western Missouri, in Rolla, which is not far from the tornado-devastated town of Joplin, lives a scholar who has made etymology his life's work.

Editor's Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com . Follow him @nireyal . How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious food or impulsively check email because we find pleasure in the activity.

In a process comparable to squeezing an elephant through a pinhole, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have designed a way to engineer atoms capable of funneling light through ultra-small channels.

Their research is the latest in a series of recent findings related to how light and matter interact at the atomic scale, and it is the first to demonstrate that the material -- a specially designed "meta-atom" of gold and silicon oxide -- can transmit light through a wide bandwidth and at a speed approaching infinity.

Front, from left: Megan Eshelman and Joey Fouts, of Ridge Meadows Elementary; and back, from left: Megan Morrow and Emma Morrow, of Ballwin Elementary, and teacher Kathy Nuetzel Students in Kathy Nuetzel's fourth-grade class at Rockwood's Center for Creative Learning earned the Environmental Protection Agency, Region, 7, President's Environmental ... (more)