Two UMR researchers are working to better prepare the military against attacks by improving the materials for missile components such as nozzles.

Researchers at UMR are making road maps for mining and mill operations by developing guidelines to increase efficiency, productivity and communication. This work could result in a significant energy savings for the U.S. mining industry.

In work that may help law enforcement officials better identify terrorists, researchers at UMR using glass microspheres — each about the width of a human hair — to trace explosives back to their manufacturers.

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 […]