Turkey prices drop to 10-year low ahead of Thanksgiving
Consumers heading to grocery stores this Thanksgiving will find many reasons to give thanks. Jayson Lusk, distinguished professor and department head of Purdue’s Department of Agricultural Economics, said estimated More...
Higher fuel costs will cause Airline tickets to cost more
High crude oil prices could fuel a jump in ticket prices for people flying during the holiday travel season, according to a Purdue aviation professor. Yi Gao, an associate professor in aviation management for the More...
Study: Help from family, friends, neighbors, churches key to faster recovery from natural disasters
Natural disasters are life-changers for all involved, and understanding why some communities recover faster than others can be better achieved by looking at both the social and physical networks within these communities More...
How to find safe water then a hurricane or bad weather knocks out facilities
The methods for implementing safe water supplies in developing countries might also apply to the Carolinas during Hurricane Florence, says a Purdue University water supply and sanitation expert. Wind, rain and flooding More...
Purdue based startup aims to treat obesity, diabetes, turning ‘bad fat to good fat’
Imagine being able to turn bad fat into good fat inside your own body without exercising, but rather a simple injection. That’s the goal of technology from a Purdue University-based startup, which has received More...
Purdue’s artificial intelligence research focused on robots and drones making their own decisions
What if a parent could feel safe allowing a drone to walk their child to the bus stop? Robots working without human intervention? That might occur sooner than you think with a new avenue of artificial intelligence, More...
Invisible friends: Startup developing software to help understand vast data of microbiomes
A Purdue University-affiliated startup is developing an intelligent software platform aimed at helping biologists to use microbes, the microscopic organisms that live in, on and around humans, plants, animals More...
New robotic technology may provide more insight into neurological diseases
Purdue University researchers are a step closer to answering one of the critical questions about the brain – how neural networks in the organ perform the computations necessary for higher-level brain functions. This More...
Brightlamp, Mimir and Pinpoint Pharma to be featured at TechCruch
Three startups that have been receiving assistance from the Purdue Foundry will be featured at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Conference to be held next month in San Francisco. Brightlamp, Mimir and Pinpoint More...
Meteor explodes over Russia
A meteoroid exploded over the city of Lipetsk in western Russia last week without warning, lighting up the summer sky with a bright flash. While some enjoyed the light show, others are worried that we didn’t see More...
New research states ‘the largest ice sheet on Earth’ is stable
The largest ice sheet on Earth was stable throughout the last warm period in geologic time, indicating it should hold up as temperatures continue to rise. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the world’s largest potential More...
How companies can learn from the #DeleteFacebook movement
The scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica is the most recent in a troubling trend of information security mishaps in which data belonging to millions of users is hacked, leaked or leveraged irresponsibly. But More...
Global Warming hysteria: Greenland ice may melt, seas may rise, even though the region has been ice-free
For a long while, more than a million years ago, Greenland wasn’t covered in ice, scientists announced this week. That may not seem like the biggest news in science, except for this: The Greenland ice sheet More...
Purdue scientists have bright idea for detecting harmful bacteria in food products
Scientists looking for traces of E. coli O157:H7 contamination in foods soon could have a new detection method on their hands – turning off the lights to see if the bacteria glow in the dark. Image/CDC Purdue More...
Purdue student, Carl Sommer, launches Kickstarter campaign for zombie board game
A Purdue University graduate and entrepreneur is turning his computer graphic knowledge and interest in creating and manufacturing board games into reality through his Lafayette-based startup Wonky Rhino Games. Carl More...
Purdue’s Fenggang Yang to study religion in China, how Christianity grew
Fenggang Yang, a Purdue University professor of sociology, has received $3.5 million from the John Templeton Foundation to map the religious and spiritual landscape in China and study how religions have flourished More...
Purdue University food handler turns up positive for typhoid fever
Indiana health officials along with Purdue University administration are working together to investigate a rare case of typhoid fever in a food handler on campus, according to a Indiana State Department of Health More...
