Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot’s brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store? […]

A video on social media shows a high-ranking U.S. legislator declaring his support for an overwhelming tax increase. You react accordingly because the video looks like him and sounds like him, so certainly it has be him. […]

Some of the key mottos for Purdue Polytechnic High School Indianapolis are “learn through STEM and design thinking immersion,” “personalized learning,” and “learn by doing.&rdquo […]

What will it take for the U.S. to return to the moon and send humans to Mars and beyond? […]

A drone delivery is great – on a perfect, sunny day. But what about when it’s windy? Most drones are not able to withstand wind because of their fixed-arm design. […]

From chariot racing in ancient Rome to the modern Kentucky Derby, horse racing has been celebrated in some form for more than a thousand years. Whether the horses’ hooves were pounding around in a dirt-filled coliseum or a racetrack surrounded by spectators in wide-brimmed hats, they probably had one thing in common: asthma. […]

The cryo-electron microscope is a modern marvel of a machine that allows scientists to look at how proteins and viruses are built atom by atom. And it’s so important to the science that the original developers of this technique received the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work. […]

Cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and strokes, is the leading cause of disease-related death in the world. Eighty percent of cardiovascular deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. […]

What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers have been trying to create a material that “thinks” like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s. Thinking is a long way off, but Purdue University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have engineered a new material that can at least “listen.&rdquo […]

The Army’s selection of Adranos Inc. as the winner of its xTechSearch competition highlights the attention three companies that have emerged from the Purdue Energetics Research Center are receiving for their work in the defense industry. […]

HaptImage LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated startup, will present an assistive technology that helps people with visual impairments “see” digital images at the 2019 University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Showcase in Washington, D.C. […]

Membrane proteins play an important role in many biological processes. Studies suggest they’re targeted by more than 50% of all modern medicinal drugs. Unfortunately for researchers, determining their structures has been a longstanding challenge because it’s difficult to track the protein without damaging the cellular membrane using current techniques. Not anymore. […]

Graphene, a new material with applications in biomedical technology, electronics, composites, energy and sensors, may soon help send rockets to space. […]

Farmers bear much of the burden for growing the food to feed billions of people as the world’s population continually trends upward. […]

U.S. trade policy expert Doug Irwin will speak at the Economic Ideas Forum on April 18. […]

The world’s elderly population is booming. The number of older people — those age 60 years or older — is expected to more than double by 2050 and is growing faster than all younger age groups across the globe. […]

Viruses are often used as vehicles for delivery in gene therapy because they’re engineered not to damage the cell once they get there, but neglecting to consider how the virus will exit the cell could have consequences. […]

A report released Monday by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association indicated more than 47,000 bridges in the United States are in crucial need of repairs and it will take more than 80 years to do the work. […]

A startup is advancing a unique way to transform algae used to purify municipal wastewater into specialty bio-based chemicals such as biofuels or bioplastics that could help reduce the risk of toxic algae blooms that often kill fish and surrounding wildlife. […]

Political theorist Francis Fukuyama will discuss personal identity and its relationship to the current political climate when he visits Purdue on April 16 to present the inaugural Jack Miller Center Lecture. […]

Job interviews over lunch or dinner in a swanky restaurant might shock a soon-to-be college graduate more accustomed to guzzling junk food and ramen noodles. […]

Gene editing has been a much sought after and controversial technology. Last month, part of the World Health Organization called for an international registry to track all research into editing the human genome. […]

April 20 marks the 20th anniversary of the high school shooting massacre in Columbine, Colorado. The number of school shootings has increased steadily since then, causing short- and long-term grief for survivors and members of society across the nation. […]

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that causes infection in various parts of the body, is often called a “superbug” thanks to its ability to dodge many common antibiotics. Although most MRSA infections aren’t serious, some can be life-threatening, sometimes resulting in amputation of the infected appendage. […]

Research continues on an eventual 140-million-mile mission to Mars, developing the latest transportation as well as habitats necessary for the red planet. […]

The worlds of STEM and policy can be very different in areas including environmental instability, global health, digital infrastructures and security. So, what will it take to bring a stronger voice of STEM expertise into global policy discussions and implementations? […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently warned that various medical devices made by the company Medtronic, such as implanted cardiac defibrillators, are vulnerable to cyberattack. This is because a hacker could easily gain wireless access to the equipment’s settings and change them. […]

It is a figure that has been thrown around quite a bit lately in the energy debate – the United States has enough energy in shale to provide all of the nation’s transportation fuels for 100 years. But two challenges remain – how to tap into that supply and how to process it into fuel at a reasonable price. […]

Nearly one year has passed since Wang Yi, the outspoken pastor of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, was first detained by government authorities. This marked the beginning of a campaign to Sinicize Christianity, or make it more Chinese, by removing crosses from church rooftops, hanging portraits of Xi Jinping on church walls, re-translating the Bible to align with Communist Party political goals and closing three unregistered “house” churches with hundreds of members. Pastor Wang was arrested again Dec. 9 and has been under secret detention. […]

Today’s puberty research is not just about endocrinology and metabolism, pediatrics and reproductive biology. According to a new study, the topics most written about include age, gender issues and obesity and diabetes. Combining those traditional foundations with new topics, researchers are now aware of including puberty topics in developmental research, as well as expanding interdisciplinary research. […]

What if you could save the planet by eating bugs? That not only might be a possibility, but in some parts of the world, eating insects isn’t a novel idea. Some researchers and chefs are working to demystify the concept of edible insects. […]

The number of malnourished people on the planet had been decreasing — but then something happened. Over a three-year period from 2015, the number of those impacted by hunger and food insecurity returned to levels not seen for a decade and jumped from about 785 million to 840 million. […]

One frustration for doctors and patients dealing with certain cancers and autoimmune diseases is that they know the cause, but they don’t know how to reduce its effects in the body. […]

The Marion County Health Department is now warning residents of possible exposure to measles at two Indianapolis businesses. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 314 individual cases of measles in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The CDC updates the data on a regular basis. […]

Many internal components used in today’s computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue – and much of the heat is simply wasted energy, a byproduct of the computer’s internal functions. […]

On Tuesday (April 2) 150,000 meals will be packed by students to send to families in need for Hammer Down Hunger as part of the university’s 150th celebration and the eight annual Purdue Ag Week. […]

Your chances of getting a nasty migraine increase following a spinal cord injury, thanks to a chemical messenger in the brain that spikes to toxic levels, past studies have suggested. […]

Purdue Galleries will host NASA spacesuit designer Amy Ross, visiting assistant professor Jennifer Scheuer, and artists Frances Gallardo and Michael Oatman for a panel talk on the subject 'What if Artists Helped Us Get to Space?' […]

NASA was directed Tuesday (March 26) by Vice President Mike Pence to step up the timeline for humans to return to the moon, setting the goal at five years via the Space Launch Systems rocket or a private space company. […]

From a new emoji to an Oscar-nominated documentary, discussions about periods are becoming more acceptable. […]

'She says she will burn the house down with me in it.' […]

The countdown and final checklist review happen every morning for Stephen Scott. […]

Twenty-eight U.S. women’s soccer players, including stars Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Carli Lloyd, recently filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, accelerating their fight for equal pay and working conditions compared with their counterparts on the men’s team, according to the Associated Press. […]

Artificial intelligence systems based on deep learning are changing the electronic devices that surround us. […]

Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the largest management and technology consulting companies in the U.S., has established space in Purdue@WestGate and is collaborating with Purdue University to develop solutions to address some of the country’s key national security challenges. […]

The increase in cesarean sections is on the verge of a global epidemic. Though the World Health Organization recommends an optimal C-section rate of 10-15 percent, the United States’ C-section rate is more than 30 percent. […]

Have you ever thought about what it’d be like to engage in a normal conversation about the weather or politics … with a robot? Science is on its way to transforming this thought into a reality, but does this novel concept fall into the category of exciting, terrifying or both? […]

A deadly meningitis outbreak linked to a Massachusetts pharmaceutical lab has drawn new interest to the way drugs are made in the United States and the training for those who work in pharmacies. […]

The public will have a chance to get a closer glimpse into Purdue alumnus Neil Armstrong’s life through an exhibition presented by Purdue Archives and Special Collections. […]

Daymond John, founder of apparel company FUBU and TV personality on ABC's 'Shark Tank,' will speak on March 25 at Purdue as part of the university’s 150th celebration. […]