Category: News

An assistant professor at Stony Brook helped discover that Mars’ Gale crater once had the potential to develop diverse forms of life. Following the 2013 finding that the crater contained a freshwater lake more than […]

A study co-led by a professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine uncovered human antibodies that can defend against all forms of ebolavirus. By analyzing the blood of a person who survived the 2013-16 Ebola […]

Researchers from Stony Brook helped to develop a new, more effective collection of standards for classifying mental disorders. Co-leading an international team with University of Minnesota and University of Notre Dame researchers, they designed a […]

A Geneseo researcher discovered that the behavior and preferences of a dispersal agent can cause a parasite to seem to favor a certain kind of host. In mistletoe, this means that birds will spread the […]

A team of researchers led by NYU discovered a new, better form of a powerful — but highly damaging — pesticide. The new crystal form of DDT is more effective against insects, and can be […]

Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cornell University are answering a need to grow more, higher-quality produce using less energy. They lead a team of researchers with the goal of reducing greenhouse energy usage by […]

An architect at Cornell University is working with University of Pennsylvania scientists to develop new forms of adaptive architecture that behave more like natural structures and respond to their environments. Unlike buildings that might use […]

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Researchers have designed a new therapy treatment that offers relief for children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder, a disorder that increases the risk for antisocial personality disorder in adults. A professor from Yeshiva, in collaboration with […]

Researchers at CUNY have created a process for making a material similar to melanin, a complex polymer previously impossible to mimic due to its naturally disordered molecular structure. Melanin, often thought of as a mere […]