Science & Technology

Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee offers remote space mission simulator

Published: March 1, 2021 | 11:41 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

A student participates in a virtual Europa Encounter mission. (Courtesy of the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee)

When the COVID-19 pandemic curtailed some of the in-person activities typically offered by Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee, the science center created an online space mission that has since been used by hundreds of students. The center, which is the K-12 outreach facility of the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, adapted its on-site space mission simulator […]

FSU College of Arts and Sciences announces new interdisciplinary data science program

Published: March 1, 2021 | 10:31 am | Posted in: Science & Technology, University News

Florida State University’s College of Arts and Sciences has announced the launch of a new interdisciplinary graduate program that will welcome its first students in Fall 2021. The FSU Interdisciplinary Data Science Master’s Degree Program, or IDS, leverages FSU’s strengths in computer science, mathematics, scientific computing and statistics to prepare students for contemporary careers in […]

FSU researchers develop battery component that uses compound from plants

Published: February 22, 2021 | 2:08 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

From left, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering associate professor Daniel Hallinan Jr. and FAMU-FSU College of Engineering assistant professor Hoyong Chung. Their research developed a way to use lignin, a compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid, in the electrolytes of batteries. (FSU Photography Services)

A Florida State University research team has developed a way to use a material found in plants to help create safer batteries. Using the organic polymer lignin — a compound in the cell walls of plants that makes them rigid — the team was able to create battery electrolytes. Their research was published as the […]

MagLab Open House 2021 moves online

Published: February 16, 2021 | 10:01 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory’s annual open house will move to the virtual realm for 2021 with 20 live virtual events, an expansion of the lab’s traditional one-day extravaganza. From Feb. 19 through March 6, science lovers across the world will be able to connect with MagLab scientists to experience all that the lab has […]

Pandemic moves ‘Ask a Scientist’ event to digital realm

Published: February 11, 2021 | 2:31 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Associate Professor of Psychology Sara Hart and Associate Professor of Chemistry Ken Hanson played Super Mario Bros while taking questions about their fields. (Courtesy of Ken Hanson)

When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Florida State University Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Ken Hanson strategized how to continue his popular “Ask a Scientist,” a monthly event where the community engages with scientists and can ask questions about anything from molecular chemistry to dinosaurs to child development. His lifelong love for gaming led him to develop “Ask […]

FSU professor receives USDA grants to help develop food safety tests

Published: February 10, 2021 | 2:37 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Qinchun Rao, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences in the FSU College of Human Sciences. (FSU Photography Services)

A Florida State University researcher has received two grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop tests that will uncover adulterated or contaminated foods. “These projects will protect against contamination of the food supply that may cause wide-scale public health harm,” said Qinchun Rao, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food and […]

International study shows asteroids as past, possible future water source

Published: February 8, 2021 | 4:23 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A Florida State University geochemist was part of an international team that published startling evidence that a type of meteorite — fragments of ancient asteroids that land on Earth — shows signs it contained liquid water no more than a million years ago. Scientists have long hypothesized meteorites delivered water from asteroids to Earth in the solar system’s infancy. […]

The strategic position: How molecules sit on surfaces drives energy and electron transfer

Published: February 2, 2021 | 10:35 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Kenneth Hanson, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry.

Florida State University researchers seeking to make newer, more energy efficient materials have made a breakthrough in understanding how structure dictates electron transfer across surfaces. It all has to do with how the molecules are positioned. Ken Hanson, associate professor of chemistry, and his colleagues found that the way molecules assemble on an inorganic material plays a key role in how energy and electrical current move across […]

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering professor will teach robots concept of risk with Toyota grant

Published: January 26, 2021 | 2:06 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Christian Hubicki, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering/Mark Wallheiser)

For Florida State University engineering professor Christian Hubicki, robots aren’t just a tool for the future. They’re a way to understand everything around us. Hubicki, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, will continue that quest thanks to a $750,000 Young Faculty Researcher grant from the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). […]

FSU computational mathematician recognized among the world’s most influential researchers

Published: January 13, 2021 | 2:30 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

An applied and computational mathematician in the Department of Scientific Computing at Florida State University has been named one of the world’s most influential researchers by a prominent global citation database. Web of Science, a platform that includes nearly 1.9 billion cited references from more than 171 million records, noted Max Gunzburger, Robert O. Lawton Distinguished […]

GAP competition supports researchers moving from laboratory to marketplace

Published: January 5, 2021 | 2:13 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology, University News

A method to improve testing for E. coli in beef and a system for evaluating a product used to reinforce pavement earned funding through a Florida State University program that supports researchers who are bringing their academic work to the marketplace. FSU’s Office of the Vice President for Research awarded faculty members a pot of […]

FSU computational scientist demonstrates how supernovae detonate

Published: December 17, 2020 | 10:34 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

The mystery of how supernovae fully form and function is one of many secrets of the universe that scientists have yet to unravel, but new work by a Florida State University research team has used theory and computations to show how one class of these luminous stellar explosions go from a slow burn to a brilliant detonation. Their […]

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