The Hawaiʻi Safe Travels pre-testing protocol may be detecting only 20% of COVID-19 infected travelers, according to an update published on September 15 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Department of Mathematics Adjunct Professor Lee Altenberg.
How the position and intensity of the North Atlantic jet stream has changed during the past 1,250 years is the focus of new research co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa scientist.
As a hereditary disease, breast cancer has affected hundreds of families throughout the state. Annually, an average of 1,190 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in Hawaiʻi.
Depending on wastewater management choice, there could be economic and ecological consequences for Kona coast residents, tourists and the marine environment.
Larval fish are spawned in a given location and may be recruited into their next life stage—larger, older fish—in the same place or a distant location.
A paper by a University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo linguist who specializes in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) challenges conventional understandings about the origins of Hawaiian and other East Polynesian languages.
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) have demonstrated the efficacy in monkeys of multiple vaccine candidates targeting three filoviruses causing life-threatening infections to humans: Ebola virus, Sudan virus and Marburg virus.
Feeling connected to nature or the environment is important for health, and new public health research from the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa examines how these feelings of connection can be measured.
Flash-frozen sperm collected from corals in Florida and Puerto Rico was used to fertilize coral eggs from hundreds of miles away in Curaçao.
After two years of investigating the cause of death of a Fraser’s dolphin that was stranded on Maui in 2018, researchers discovered a novel strain of morbillivirus, a marine mammal disease responsible for deadly outbreaks among dolphins and whales worldwide
An unprecedented collection of pulsating giant red stars has been identified by astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA).
The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that share traits with both anemones and hard corals.
Astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—but few have been directly imaged, because they are extremely difficult to see with existing telescopes.
The future of Oʻahu’s primary water source may be in jeopardy if current water withdrawal rules remain unchanged.
Nitrogen is the unsung hero of food production—an essential nutrient for plant growth and health.
Most humans have experienced social anxiety on some level during their lives.
By 2050, faster adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and faster generation of renewable energy will result in 99% less fossil fuel consumed and 93% less CO2 emissions from passenger and freight vehicles on Oʻahu.
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is of particular scientific interest because its salty ocean, which lies beneath a thick layer of ice, may currently have conditions suitable for existing life, and the ocean water may even make its way into the icy crust and onto the moon’s surface.
A new study by Institute for Astronomy (IfA) astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi investigates a unique solar magnetic eruption observed during the 2020 total solar eclipse from Argentina.
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa), one of the most widely distributed mammals on the planet, have gained notoriety in recent decades due to their devastating impacts to agricultural crops and threats to species of conservation concern.