Category: Discoveries

MSU scientific illustrator combines science, art By the time Joe MacGown sold his first piece of art at age 11, he already had logged several years investigating insects under a microscope. Even at that age, blending science with his creativity came naturally. “I’ve been looking...

MSU-led GIS trainings help tribal populations better manage homelands The natural world of sub-Arctic Alaska defines the life and identity of Leilani Luhrs. A member of the Traditional Council of Togiak, one of 27 Native American villages in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, her roots run through...

MSU grant increases access to behavioral health services in Mississippi communities When Starkville kindergarten teacher Tynesha Elliott received her son’s autism diagnosis, she turned to Mississippi State University’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic and Pediatric Feeding Disorders Lab for support. Over the last two years,...

We take many things for granted in life: the sun rises in the east, Mississippi has sweltering summers, and our preferred food brands will offer the same experience every time we consume them. Those first two reliably occur without intervention, but the last—the consistency consumers...

Mother Nature makes for a fickle research partner, but scientists at Mississippi State University are no longer beholden to the whims of weather when it comes to testing the limits of uncrewed aviation systems, commonly known as UAS. A new indoor set-up at the university’s...

On a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean, at a table in the ship’s piano bar, Michael Nadorff found himself furiously writing an emergency grant proposal for the Mississippi Department of Health. Not everyone would take a break from their vacation to seek...

What happens in the heavens matters on Earth. That’s the message of two MSU faculty—historian Alexandra Hui and astrophysicist Angelle Tanner. From humans observing the movements of celestial bodies to hurling manmade objects into and beyond the exosphere, space events—and the science behind them—have been...

When Amirtaha Taebi joined Mississippi State’s biomedical engineering faculty in 2021, he also joined the fight against the world’s leading cause of death—cardiovascular disease.

When Kennedy Keyes arrived at Mississippi State in fall 2022, her knowledge of student opportunities in research was limited. However, within a few months, she was knee-deep in an MSU Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems study meant to improve accessibility in virtual reality applications.

For every aging adult, there comes a time when routine physical tasks become a challenge. For some adults, it’s a walk up the steps that now requires a handrail. For others, it’s time spent tending a garden that now requires days for the knees to...