The planet is crawling with exotic microorganisms, but what interests Assistant Professor of Chemistry Jacob Goldberg is an ordinary bug that’s right under our...
When Prof. Ramesh Adhikari and his students started plugging their equipment into the glossy, heart-shaped leaves of the houseplant, they discovered properties that might make it perfect for building leaf-based electronics.
Though her work will have wide applications from engineering to medicine, Professor Silvia Jiménez Bolaños’ real passion is for the mathematical theory behind them.
Geochemist Karen Harpp unravels an island puzzle by studying volcanic rocks.
A visit to the Galápagos Islands, their unique flora and fauna the inspira...
Prof. Ephraim Woods and his students built an apparatus to understand sunlight-driven reactions in Earth’s atmosphere.
To the non-scientist, the apparat...
Excerpted from The Physics Teacher
Much effort has been expended to uncover forgotten contributions by women in physics and publicize examples of femal...
For his latest study, Prof. Spencer Kelly worked with collaborators in the Netherlands to learn how young children’s brains process speech and hand motions that happen at the same time.
“If a species sees an increase in temperature in the wrong season — which we see often, nowadays — would it be detrimental to them as far as being able to recover?”
Astronomer Jeff Bary investigates the disk of gas around a trio of young stars, finding clues that planets may be forming within.
The night sky is home ...
