A project to record and create a library of sounds from around the world on Earth Day Tuesday, April 22, features a mobile application developed by IT...
Melissa Valentino, headed toward being a weather officer for the Air Force after graduation, knows the importance of computer modeling to her field so...
Thymic cancer is rare enough that one doctor, or even one hospital, never sees more than a few cases, making it difficult to better understand the sta...
Pat Zollner and his students have golden eagles, butterflies, bats, herons, flying squirrels, chipmunks, martens and raccoons wandering around at Purd...
Purdue researchers and ITaP are embarking on a $4.5 million, four-year project to create a powerful Web-based system that will allow researchers world...
Given the myriad uses we put lithium-ion batteries to — from the smartphones in our pockets to the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft — how...
For about two decades voluntary pollution abatement programs have shifted in and out of popularity with national — popular in the George W. Bush admin...
Consider two vital processes that go on in your car engine. One is turbulence, a kind of chaotic, random flow involving fuel and air. The other is com...
Quark-gluon plasma, formed at temperatures 100,000 times hotter than the center of the sun, is something you won’t find cooking in any kitchen on Eart...
Purdue faculty members and ITaP’s Envision Center for Data Perceptualization have developed a Web-enabled, 3-D virtual environment that recreates the...
Agricultural economics Professor Michael Delgado uses computationally demanding statistical models to study questions like the effectiveness of volunt...
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring all grant proposals to include two-page plans that describe what data will be generat...
International treaties that ban detonating nuclear weapons for testing are generally viewed as a good thing, but it certainly creates challenges for p...
Emergency managers would do well to consider staggering evacuations in a disaster like a hurricane, perhaps advising people living nearest the storm s...
To the computer savvy, "interface" might bring to mind the way a computer operating system like Windows presents the world inside the machin...