Under the right conditions, liquid crystals condense into astonishing structures, spontaneously generating filaments and flattened discs that can transport material from one place to another, much ...

Biosensing engineer Azahar Ali, assistant professor of animal sciences and biological systems engineering at Virginia Tech, is bracing for the arrival of a fourth agricultural revolution. It's an era ...

Chapman area farmer Ned Meier was a little bewildered when he opened a letter from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to find out he had been chosen to be inducted into the Biological Systems ...

This program applies basic scientific and engineering principles to the design, development and operation of large-scale, bio-based product manufacturing, such as food and pharmaceuticals. Such ...

Living organisms continue to be a source of inspiration to engineers across a variety of sectors. Here we present a collection of content from the pages of Communications Engineering reporting ...

People often compare the genome to a computer's program, with the cell using its genetic code to process environmental inputs and produce appropriate responses. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Elena Butler, a senior biological systems engineering major, found a home in the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Now the president of NSBE, Elena is fostering community on campus and ...

Clay Wright, assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Biological Systems Engineering, was awarded a prestigious Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA ...

At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion—while quantum technology often requires extreme isolation ...

Erin Webb, lead for the Bioresources Science and Engineering group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, or ...