The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) selected eight cutting-edge projects for the latest round of Sustainable Smart Campus as a Living Lab program for testing on campus. Covering a wide range of sustainability challenges on campus, the projects address energy efficiency, renewable energy optimization, water management, wellness, ecosystem enhancement, and predictive maintenance strategies, providing students and faculty with hands-on experience with prototypes before real-world implementation.

A new type of drone, inspired by the aerial precision of birds of prey, could one day navigate through dense city skyscrapers to deliver our packages or inspect hard-to-reach offshore wind farms, thanks to pioneering research from the University of Surrey.

Across the globe, deserts are spreading, engulfing homes, roads and even entire villages in sand. Engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder are exploring how humans can shift the paths of these towering formations.

A new research project at the Texas A&M Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management Ecology and Natural Resources Teaching Area will contribute to a greater understanding of white-tailed deer biology and ecology while providing students with vital experience in field-based data collection and analysis.

A Potential Cure for Paralysis: The First Human Spinal Cord Repair using The Patient Own Cells The surgery is expected to soon take place in Israel, in which a personalized engineered human spinal cord will be implanted in a paralyzed patient, with the goal of enabling the patient to rise from a wheelchair and walk again. Behind this medical advance stands Prof. Tal Dvir, Head of the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, Head of the Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University, and Chief Scientist of the biotech company Matricelf.

Row crop producers in West Tennessee have begun growing rice in recent years, accessing new international markets and financial opportunities.

The simplified connection and separation of individual elements can save time, material and construction waste during repairs, renovations or changes of use.

Tereza Magalhaes, Ph.D., is living an old, oft-used adage: “Science saves lives, one discovery at a time.”

Magalhaes, a vector biologist in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology, grew up in Brazil in a family of scientists and academics, and she developed her natural interest in biology from an early age. Her aunt would tell Magalhaes she would be a detective one day.

It’s Tuesday morning in early June and the Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) control room is crawling with visitors. Men in fatigues thumb through logbooks, monitor radiation levels, and consult data and images on laptop computers. These visitors are members of the U.S. Army’s Nuclear Disablement Team (NDT), participating in a new Nuclear Infrastructure, Assessment and Disablement (NIAD) field exercise that validates and certifies training received during INL’s annual NIAD course. The annual course is designed to improve the soldier’s proficiency and knowledge of nuclear fuel cycle processes, hazard mitigation and successful characterization and disablement of nuclear facilities.