The core of a nuclear reactor is often referred to as no-man’s land because it sits under at least 25 feet of water and is so radioactive that no living thing should go near it. But a researcher at UMR is developing a water-submersible craft to safely inspect the core to determine whether maintenance or […]

A good wax mold lies behind every fast car. And a UMR researcher’s efforts to improve wax investment casting — a technique with roots dating back to ancient Egypt and China — should make fast cars even more efficient by improving the quality and strength of the mold shells used to create engine parts.

In the nation’s only pyrotechnics course offered for college credit, UMR students are lighting up the skies with fireworks displays at football games and other public events throughout Missouri.

A UMR researcher and 11 geological engineering students will use wind power to clean up groundwater at a former munitions production site in Nebraska in the effort to use renewable energy for such a task.

Chemists at the University of Missouri-Rolla have developed a new process that could be used to sort biologically potent, useful chemicals from their less useful and sometimes toxic counterparts in a way that is less expensive and more widely applicable. Details of the process, which could improve the process for developing certain medicines, are published […]

Researchers at UMR and Motorola Inc.’s Advanced Technology Center in Schaumburg, Ill., are developing three-dimensional switches and tiny fuel cells to improve the reception quality and extend the operating time for wireless communications and other wireless sensing devices.

Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla are patenting a process that makes metal stronger, more efficient and more cost effective — by making it flow like chewing gum. The result could be manufacturing improvements for the aircraft industry.