System could pore through millions of research papers to extract “recipes” for producing materials. In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Material... Read more
Commuters, skiers, crossing guards and others who endure frozen fingers in cold weather may look forward to future relief as manufacturers are poised to take advantage of a new technique for... Read more
Expanding polymer enables self-folding without heating or immersion in water. As 3-D printing has become a mainstream technology, industry and academic researchers have been investigating pr... Read more
UMass Amherst microbiologists, international team show fungal deconstruction of wood Twenty years ago, microbiologist Barry Goodell, now a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amhers... Read more
UMass Amherst scientists introduce coating that turns fabrics into circuits A lightweight, comfortable jacket that can generate the power to light up a jogger at night may sound futuristic,... Read more
Researchers invent process to make sustainable rubber, plastics Synthetic rubber and plastics – used for manufacturing tires, toys and myriad other products – are produced from butadiene, a... Read more
Discovery could have major impact on the multi-billion dollar tire industry A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new technology to produce automobile tir... Read more
UMass Amherst study finds impaired behavior in pregnant and lactating mice In the first study of its kind, environmental health scientist Laura Vandenberg and neuroscientist Mary Catanese at... Read more
Researchers have discovered a way to program cells to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9 activity. “Anti-CRISPR” proteins had previously been isolated from viruses that infect bacteria, but now... Read more
A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning pro... Read more
Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are leading a research team that is developing a new type of nanodevice for computer microprocessors that can mimic the functioning of a... Read more
UMass Amherst introduces ‘Braidio’ technology, lets mobile devices share power In a paper presented Aug. 25 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group on data commun... Read more
Scientists sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have genetically modified a common soil bacteria to create electrical wires that not only conduct electricity, but are thousands of... Read more
University of Massachusetts Amherst computer science graduate students Kyle Wray and Luis Pineda, with their professor Shlomo Zilberstein, today described a new approach to managing the chal... Read more
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in the current issue of Small that they have genetically designed a new strain of bacteria that spins out extremely thin and high... Read more
