Motion-based lab technology can help physical therapists, clinicians and athletic trainers analyse how we move—it also is very expensive. Some motion labs can cost upward of $100,000. Now, a team of University of Missouri researchers is finding that the depth camera often associated with video game systems can provide a variety of health care providers with objective information to improve patient care.

Some day, your smartphone might completely conform to your wrist, and when it does, it might be covered in pure gold, thanks to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Writing in the journal Science, the Missouri S&T researchers say they have developed a way to “grow” thin layers of gold on single crystal wafers of silicon, remove the gold foils, and use them as substrates on which to grow other ele...

Electronic components that can be elongated or twisted - known as "stretchable" electronics - could soon be used to power electronic gadgets, the onboard systems of vehicles, medical devices and other products. And a 3D printing-like approach to manufacturing may help make stretchable electronics more prevalent, say researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

A team of researchers from Missouri University of Science and Technology and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece have demonstrated a more efficient, less cost-prohibitive way to split water into its elements of hydrogen and oxygen. Their approach could make hydrogen fuel a more viable energy source in the future while addressing the technological challenge of developing clean and renewable energy without depleting earth's nat...

  Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are creating a new approach to reconstruct 3D full-colour holographic images by using just one layer of nanoscale metallic film. This work has a huge potential to change our daily lives by equipping our cell phones with 3D floating displays and printing 3D security marking onto credit cards.

  Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology have developed a multi-modal sensing device that can track the fine-grained activities and behaviour of people with dementia -- and it could help in Army combat training, too.

The sun doesn't shine on the same spot all day, meaning solar panels produce energy intermittently. Solar energy researchers have been trying to store sunlight by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. A solar cell splits water with two electrodes, producing oxygen on one electrode, while generating hydrogen on the other. Now a simple process made an electrode that absorbs sunlight and produces oxygen on tiny cobalt islands on a silicon electr...

  Missouri University of Science and Technology researchers have developed a real-time, portable and 3D microwave video camera prototype. The Missouri S&T team has developed a microwave 3D video camera that can be used for industrial inspection applications, security screening—and might even one day be used by first responders.