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Coloration Signals Among Male Locusts Reduce Mating Mistakes

A Texas A&M professor has identified a sex-adapted color-change gene that helps the insects distinguish between females and fellow males in swarms.

Uh Professor Working to Heal Homelessness, Fix Broken Aid Industry

Dr. David Buck’s Passion for Helping Underserved Populations Inspired by Encounter with Mother Teresa

Texas A&M Researchers Create Toe-Tapping Test To Evaluate Fall Risk In Parkinson’s Patients

The test uses smart shoe insoles to assess a patient’s falling risk and symptom progression, as well as provide treatment suggestions through an easy-to-use phone application.

Building the Best Zeolite

Review Concludes Big Data Rocks, Pushing Formation of Crystals Forward

Researchers Identify African Dust By Measuring Isotopes

Using NASA satellite images and large-scale models, they tracked the same dust plumes from Africa to Houston.

First Study of Its Kind Links Moms’ Problems to Adolescent Attachment

Mothers’ Own Experiences with Caregivers May Be Important Driver Within This Relationship

Watching Lithium In Real Time Could Improve Performance Of EV Battery Materials

Researchers have found that the irregular movement of lithium ions in next-generation battery materials could be reducing their capacity and hindering their performance.

Power of the Pulpit: Uh Study Suggests Lower Mortality Rates for Men 50+ Who Attend Religious Services

Faith-based communities have long provided members with life enhancing benefits. Beyond offering messages of hope, churches and other spiritual institutions offer members many support services that enrich lives and strengthen family bonds.

Texas A&M AgriLife Designs System To Create Bioplastics

The new method could be used to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce reliance on nondegradable plastics.

Small-Scale Octopus Fisheries Can Provide Sustainable Source Of Vital Nutrients For Tropical Coastal Communities

Undernourished coastal communities in the tropics - where children’s growth can be stunted by a lack of micronutrients – can get the vitamins and minerals they need from sustainable small-scale octopus fisheries, say researchers.

Solar-Powered System Converts Plastic And Greenhouse Gases Into Sustainable Fuels

Researchers have developed a system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products – using just the energy from the Sun.

Just Like Humans, More Intelligent Jays Have Greater Self-Control

A study has found that Eurasian jays can pass a version of the ‘marshmallow test’ – and those with the greatest self-control also score the highest on intelligence tests.

New Approach To ‘Cosmic Magnet’ Manufacturing Could Reduce Reliance On Rare Earths In Low-Carbon Technologies

Researchers have discovered a potential new method for making the high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric cars without the need for rare earth elements, which are almost exclusively sourced in China.

Exceptional Scientists Elected As Fellows Of The Royal Society 2023

Seven outstanding Cambridge researchers have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences and the oldest science academy in continuous existence.

Dust Plumes Observed Being ‘Pushed’ Into Interstellar Space By Intense Starlight

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Sydney made the observation when tracking a giant plume of dust generated by the violent interactions between two massive stars.

Aggie Entomologists Show How Ant Colonies Adapt To Urbanization

A group of Texas A&M researchers has identified behavioral and physiological changes in ants disturbed by development and urban sprawl.

New Catalyst Offers a More Affordable Way to Produce Hydrogen from Seawater

Researchers Discover a Single Catalyst Capable of Splitting Both Freshwater and Seawater at Low Voltage

Cambridge-Led Consortium Receives $35m To Boost Crop Production Sustainably In Sub-Saharan Africa

A Cambridge-led consortium has received US$35m (£28m) over five years to develop sustainable solutions to increasing the yields of small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, without the need for costly and polluting inorganic fertilisers.