New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.
A new approach for identifying significant differences in gene use between closely-related species provides insights into human evolution.
The images shed light on how electrons form superconducting pairs that glide through materials without friction.
The disorganized arrangement of the proteins in light-harvesting complexes is the key to their extreme efficiency.
Training artificial neural networks with data from real brains can make computer vision more robust.
A short science lesson can help sway public opinion on climate change, research from Washington State University indicates.
Scientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time.
MAGE merges the two key tasks of image generation and recognition, typically trained separately, into a single system.
A WSU research team has created a recyclable carbon-fiber reinforced composite that could eventually replace the non-recyclable version used in everything from modern airplane wings and wind turbines to sporting goods.
The first RNA-guided DNA-cutting enzyme found in eukaryotes, Fanzor could one day be harnessed to edit DNA more precisely than CRISPR/Cas systems.
The millions of people affected by 2020’s record-breaking and deadly fires can attest to the fact that wildfire hazards are increasing across western North America.
Work could lead to heady applications in novel electronics and more.
A national study looking at the impacts that mandated vaccine policies had on universities and colleges and their surrounding communities found that those policies reduced the overall death rate of the U.S. in fall 2021 by about 5%, roughly 7,300 lives.
Mysteries surrounding the origins of castaway gamma-ray bursts or flashes of intense energy may be unlocked thanks to data collected from some of the most powerful telescopes on Earth including two observatories on Maunakea
Bacterial communities in centuries-old lava caves and tubes on Hawaiʻi Island are more diverse than scientists expected, and may help us understand how life might have existed on Mars and early Earth.
This paper has been selected for “American Physiological Society (APS) Select,” a collection from APS that showcases some of the best recently published articles in physiological research
What does our universe look like at the largest size scales? A team of researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) and Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary has produced a massive new catalog of high-fidelity distance estimates to more than 350 million galaxies, revealing the soap-bubble structure of the universe in detail.
The keys to saving endangered species and improving the ecology of our communities may be found in thousands of microbiomes and microbes examined by researchers from the ocean to the summit of the Waimea Valley watershed on Oʻahu.
More than half of known human pathogenic diseases such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, can be aggravated by climate change.
With updated COVID-19 boosters being recommended to provide increased protection against the circulating omicron variant, a new paper by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Waiʻanae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) researchers is shedding light on who is getting booster shots in Hawaiʻi, and how trust and consumption of different information sources affect that decision.