Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2021
Take me to your leader: Space diplomacy 101
Space has long been seen as the domain of scientists and engineers, but space also needs diplomacy.
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Education
Feb 9, 2021
A new type of university is emerging to meet the challenges of today
The world is changing rapidly and in order to serve the human population dealing with those changes, American universities need to change, too. In fact, their role is to model the resiliency that all institutions need to ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2021
In a desert seared by climate change, burrowers fare better than birds
In the arid Mojave Desert, small burrowing mammals like the cactus mouse, the kangaroo rat and the white-tailed antelope squirrel are weathering the hotter, drier conditions triggered by climate change much better than their ...
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2021
Vector-borne diseases shaped human history and reveal race disparities
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs), such as plague, malaria and yellow fever, have significantly shaped society and culture, according to an international team of researchers. In a study published in Ecology Letters on Jan. 27, ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 2, 2021
Humans force wild animals into tight spots, or send them far from home. We calculated just how big the impact is
The COVID pandemic has shown us that disruptions to the way we move around, complete daily activities and interact with each other can shatter our wellbeing.
General Physics
Jan 13, 2021
Studying chaos with one of the world's fastest cameras
There are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces around a table according to orderly geometry.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2020
Life on an airless Earth
In hidden pockets around the world, tiny creatures consume toxins and wait for their day to again rule the Earth.
Archaeology
Nov 25, 2020
Bird with tall, sickle-shaped beak reveals hidden diversity during the age of dinosaurs
A Cretaceous-age, crow-sized bird from Madagascar would have sliced its way through the air wielding a large, blade-like beak and offers important new insights on the evolution of face and beak shape in the Mesozoic forerunners ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2020
How cell processes round up and dump damaged proteins
In a new paper with results that senior author Eric Strieter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst calls "incredibly surprising," he and his chemistry lab group report that they have discovered how an enzyme known as ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2020
Native frogs had hard year, faced fires and harsh ecology
The 2019/20 Australian bushfires killed over 1 billion animals. Our frog species used their secret super powers to survive, but they still face extinction.
