An asteroid bigger than the Mānoa campus at the University of Hawaiʻi, discovered by a UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA) telescope atop Haleakalā, Maui, is only the second-known object of its kind ever found.
The coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering the timing of nutrient uptake, according to a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution by a group of researchers from 13 institutions, including the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
One in three hospitalized youth in Hawaiʻi had obesity, underscoring the need for greater attention to obesity in the inpatient setting and targeted interventions to reduce obesity among younger hospitalized patients.
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes.
Coral reefs are hotspots of biodiversity and are amazingly productive with a vast number of organisms interacting simultaneously.
Local fisheries and their associated biodiversity benefit from the transfer of larvae between reefs, with some benefitting more than others, prompting recommendations to protect larval connectivity among coral reefs.
Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are part of a team that recently discovered three planets orbiting dangerously close to stars nearing the ends of their lives.
The first on-the-ground detection of water on the Moon’s surface was reported by an international team of researchers, including Shuai Li, a planetary geologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean—by colonizing plastic pollution.
Using a University of Hawaiʻi telescope on Haleakalā and another on Maunakea, astronomers, for the very first time, imaged the dramatic end to a red supergiant star’s life as it was happening.
Earth is constantly being bombarded by meteorites—from nearly invisible, dust-sized particles to large impactors that have changed the trajectory of life on our planet
As Mauna Loa erupted in late November 2022 for the first time since 1984, the emissions produced vog or volcanic smog. Vog—a mixture of ash, sulfur dioxide and other gasses—may cause breathing difficulties, headaches, a sore throat, watery eyes and more to those living near and/or downwind of the vog plume.
In Hawaiʻi, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers.
The synthetic production of a critical building block called methanediamine for the first time by researchers in University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Chemistry could lead to key insights into the origins of life. The researchers have discovered a method to produce it in a lab under conditions that mimic icy interstellar nanoparticles in cold molecular clouds in space.
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun. The doomed world is destined to spiral closer and closer to its maturing star until they collide and the planet is obliterated.
In Hawaiʻi, Native Hawaiian cancer patients have a two-fold increased risk of dying from sepsis, a life-threatening immune response to an infection, compared to other ethnicities, according to a new study co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researchers.
For the first time, astronomers have spotted an exoplanet with a decaying orbit around a star that resembles a future version of our Sun.
As with many natural phenomena, scientists look to the climate of the past to understand what may lie ahead as Earth warms.
As climate change continues, human cases of rat lungworm disease are anticipated to become more widespread globally, especially in places where the parasite that causes the disease is not yet present.
An investigation into National Science Foundation (NSF) data on funding rates, award types and proposal ratings from 1996 to 2019 found pervasive racial disparities.