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First Caribbean 'Dirt Ant' Found in 16-Million-Year-Old Amber

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Biologists at NJIT unearth a buried chapter in the evolution of dirt ants, uncovering first fossil evidence that one of Earth's stealthiest insects inhabited the Caribbean millions of years ago.

NJIT Study Probes Genetic 'Smoking Gun,' Health Risks of Vaping Among Gen Z

Monday, April 14, 2025
We all know how bad smoking is for you, but what about vaping?

Revealing the Heavy Impacts of Repeated Low-Level Head Traumas

Monday, April 7, 2025
Soldiers training on heavy artillery and athletes in contact sports are routinely exposed to repetitive mild shockwaves and injuries. Unlike someone who has just dodged a missile explosion or been smacked by a linebacker, they may feel little...

Modeling the Body's Tiniest Operations in Vivid 3D

Thursday, April 3, 2025
Threaded throughout the body are networks of capillaries so miniscule that red blood cells must contort to squeeze through them one at a time. It is this world that Peter Balogh brings to dynamic, 3D life on computer screens.

Restoring Muscles by Stimulating the Brain

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Elisa Kallioniemi slides a circular disk over her head, stops above her right ear and clicks. Her left hand jumps. She moves it a couple of inches back, clicks again, and is suddenly speechless, mid-sentence.

NJIT Computing Professor Zhi Wei Named Fellow of AAAS, Follows IEEE Honor

Friday, March 28, 2025
Zhi Wei, a bioinformaticist, was elected to the 2024 Fellows class of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From 3D Bioprinting to Disease Tracking, NJIT Showcases its Groundbreaking Labs

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Throughout the year, NJIT researchers focus on unsolved problems in areas such as medical science, energy sustainability and cybersecurity and test new methods to tackle them.

NJIT Unveils VR Crime Scene Tech, Research at Nation's Largest Forensic Conference

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
NJIT’s forensics program made an impression at the 77th Annual American Academy of Forensic Sciences’ Conference in Baltimore’s Convention Center, unveiling new research and innovations that tackled this year’s conference theme, “Technology: A...
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Experts from NJIT, Carnegie Mellon Find the Pen is Mightier than the Data

Friday, March 14, 2025
Plenty of researchers already study how to tell if online writing bears the traits of artificial intelligence — but Michael Laudenbach, in the humanities and social sciences department at NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, is...

NJIT's First-Year Engineers 'Dive' into Design, Shaping the Future at Annual Showcase

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
The spirit of innovation and hands-on learning was in full force at the Newark College of Engineering's (NCE) annual First-Year Engineering Design Showcase, a highlight of National Engineers Week.