Collaboration across disciplines works to overcome technical challenges in quest to develop economical, clean and reliable wind energy.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has given students from 15 universities across North America, including Purdue, the chance to show what they can do in the field of automotive technology that looks to reduce greenhouse emissions and improve fuel efficiency.

Tight budgets, environmental pressures and rising energy demand — all challenges facing the world today.

New optical technologies using "metasurfaces" capable of the ultra-efficient control of light are nearing commercialization, with potential applications including advanced solar cells, computers, telecommunications, sensors and microscopes.

Researchers using nanotechnology have taken a step toward creating an "optical cloaking" device that could render objects invisible by guiding light around anything placed inside this "cloak," say engineers at Purdue University.

Researchers are improving the performance of technologies ranging from medical CT scanners to digital cameras using a system of models to extract specific information from huge collections of data and then reconstructing images like a jigsaw puzzle.

Purdue University researchers have received a five-year $14.5 million National Science Foundation grant to expand its widely used nanoHUB.org online science and engineering gateway.

The football head injury experts featured in recent Sports Illustrated coverage of Junior Seau's brain injuries say new brain-saving helmet technology is available that would massively decrease energy delivered to the brain during impacts.

Purdue researchers are part of a new center focusing on the development of future computing platforms based on new device technologies that use "electron spin" to represent information.