Microbiology professor Jim Holden, a researcher in the School of Earth and Sustainability, recently received a three-year, $441,219 grant from NASA’s Exobiology Program to study competition between different types of thermophilic, or heat-loving, microbes.

The Government of Canada is investing in research expertise and the future of Atlantic salmon with the establishment of a Parks Canada Research Chair dedicated to aquatic restoration at the University of New Brunswick.

Like museums and tourism sites across Newfoundland and Labrador, Memorial’s Botanical Garden and Johnson Geo Centre rely on visitors to keep their doors open.

For decades, scientists have been warning about potential future effects of global climate change, including more frequent wildfires, longer periods of drought, and sharp increases in the number, duration, and intensity of tropical storms. 

Reducing fossil fuel use is essential to stopping climate change, but that goal will remain out of reach unless global agriculture and eating habits are also transformed, according to new research from the University of Minnesota and University of Oxford.

Deep learning is everywhere. This branch of artificial intelligence curates your social media and serves your Google search results.

A University of Minnesota-led research team has developed new methods to assess how biodiversity loss impacts forest ecosystems by determining how sunlight reflects off the surface of the forest canopy using spectral images taken from an airplane.

What happened to those watermelon rinds you tossed into the garbage or compost heap this summer? Most likely, bacteria digested them, releasing most of their carbon as carbon dioxide. 

New research presented today at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions suggests neither vitamin D nor the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil prevent the development of atrial fibrillation, a potentially serious heart rhythm disturbance.

Advanced X-ray techniques yield insights into a bacterial enzyme that turns methane gas into liquid fuel