Feature Stories
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Oct-2025 01:11 ET (22-Oct-2025 05:11 GMT/UTC)
3-Oct-2025
An out of this world opportunity
University of Pittsburgh
Through a partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s NSF Center for Space, High-Performance & Resilient Computing (SHREC) and Lockheed Martin, two undergraduates engineering students at Pitt had a unique opportunity to develop and deploy applications to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), 22,236 miles above the earth.
2-Oct-2025
New imaging method helps immune cells zero in on cancer
University of FloridaScientists are testing nanoparticle imaging to monitor how immune cells target and attack cancer.
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- NIH/National Cancer Institute
2-Oct-2025
It’s a new era for knee replacements and other joint surgeries
Mayo Clinic
ot so long ago, undergoing a total hip or knee replacement and recovery was a grueling and often painful ordeal. While these are still major surgeries, new techniques and technologies are redefining them — and improving people's outcomes, explains Dr. Brandon Bukowski, an orthopedic surgeon at the Mayo Clinic Health System.
2-Oct-2025
Power-outage exercises strengthen resilience of U.S. military bases
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Now mandated by law, Lincoln Laboratory's blackout drills are improving national security and ensuring mission readiness for over 33 installations.
2-Oct-2025
Forming bonds between chemical and sustainability engineering
University of Rochester
The University of Rochester’s 110-year-old chemical engineering department recently changed its name to the Department of Chemical and Sustainability Engineering, signaling the disciplines are closely intertwined and central to delivering affordable, reliable, and secure technologies with lower impacts on air, water, land, and communities.
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- DOE/US Department of Energy
2-Oct-2025
Could this year’s drought dull fall foliage viewing? You may be surprised
University of New Hampshire
Fall is in the air and thoughts turn to pumpkins, cider and brightly colored leaves. According to experts at the University of New Hampshire’s Extension, despite drought conditions in the Northeast there should be plenty of leaf peeping opportunities this year, it is just happening a little earlier.
1-Oct-2025
Is there anybody out there?
Georgia State University
Georgia State researchers are joining a bold global mission: to build a revolutionary telescope that could detect life beyond our solar system. An "audacious" leap that might change how we see our place in the universe.
1-Oct-2025
Features on asteroid visited by SwRI-led Lucy spacecraft given official names
Southwest Research Institute
SAN ANTONIO — October 1, 2025 — Surface features on asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, as identified by the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy Mission, have been given official names by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The surface features of the carbonaceous asteroid will be named for significant paleoanthropological sites and discoveries. The NASA Lucy spacecraft flew past the asteroid on April 20, 2025.
1-Oct-2025
PolyU researchers develop underground utilities inspection technologies to locate invisible water pipe leakages and voids
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Proper maintenance of underground infrastructure is crucial for a city’s sustainable development. However, with its high-density underground utilities, such maintenance work is particularly challenging in Hong Kong. A research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has leveraged advanced underground exploration technologies to develop underground utilities inspection systems that support early detection of urban infrastructure anomalies, including voids and pipe leakages, for enhanced urban management.