The Army's corporate research laboratory recently hosted a professor from Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering to collaborate on chemically-powered artificial muscles for the future Soldier.

Scientists are using powerful magnets to learn how to better detect, treat and track the second leading cause of death worldwide.

Among all the ailments the human body may face, cancer is one of the trickiest. It can grow stealthily, evade detection, evolve complex defenses to drugs. Researchers have been studying cancer, and developing drugs to fight it, for decades in hopes of one day stamping out the mutant cells that are constantly outsmarting our immune systems.

When a stroke strikes the brain, neurons die. But danger lingers for days afterward, as low oxygen in the area of the stroke threatens surviving brain cells. Researchers using a world-record magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine at the National MagLab have been developing a way to save them.

The technique involves using adult stem cells retrieved from outside the brain, treating them to promote healing and growth, then sending them through the blood to the site of the stroke.

A Florida State University and Cornell University research team found that batteries built from inexpensive and safe components can deliver three to four times the punch of batteries built with today’s state-of-the-art lithium ion technology.

The researchers’ work is published today in Nature Communications.

For some undergraduate students at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, learning isn’t limited to the classroom and labs. Hands-on undergraduate research is encouraged, as well as supported.

Peter Cheetham, Ph.D., a research faculty member at the Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), mentors three undergraduate engineering students who are now primary authors of research publications on projects they have been engaged with all year.

It sounds like science fiction, but engineering researchers are working on microscale 3D-printed devices that can be manufactured directly onto fabrics, films and other flexible materials—transforming our idea of “wearable devices” forever.

With a new grant from the National Institutes of Health, researchers at the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory will study the main mechanism behind one of the top causes of disability: migraines.