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Light-Powered Soft Robots Could Suck Up Oil Spills

Water striders, steam engines inspire slicker picker-upper

Guerinot Lab Identifies Proteins Involved in Photoprotection during Iron Deficiency

Prof. Mary Lou Guerinot, Dr. Garo Akmakjian, Guarini '18 and Nabilia Riaz, Guarini '22 have identified proteins that protect plants during iron deficiency.

“Magic Wand” Reveals A Colorful Nano-World

Novel color photography using a high-efficiency probe can super-focus white light into a 6-nanometer spot for nanoscale color imaging

Bezanilla Lab - New Insights into Plant Cellulose Production

The Bezanilla lab has published its findings on the mechanisms used by plants to synthesize cellulose in a current article in The Journal of Cell Biology.

When Bees Get A Taste For Dead Things

Meat-eating ‘vulture bees’ sport acidic guts

Magdalena Bezanilla Named Fellow of American Society of Plant Biologists

The honor recognizes distinguished and long-term contributions to plant biology.

How To Eat A Poison Butterfly

Monarch predators evolved rare cellular mutations

Less Limu Pālahalaha? Study Looks At Ways To Protect Native Seaweed Species

Climate change and increased groundwater pumping are likely to decrease the abundance of limu pālahalaha (Ulva sp.), a native and culturally important limu (native seaweed), and increase the habitat suitability of Hypnea musciformis, an invasive seaweed in coastal groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona

Disease Carried By Cats, Pigs Kills 2 Spinner Dolphins In Hawaiian Waters

Two spinner dolphins died from toxoplasmosis after becoming infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, according to researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Health and Stranding Lab.

Engineering Professor’s Article Nets 2nd-Highest Downloads In Prestigious Journal

A journal article on engineering management by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Engineering faculty member is approaching 190,000 downloads, the second highest among the 145,000 articles published in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) 35 journals.

First Look At Tropical Blooming Trees Using Space Satellites

For the first time, a tropical mass flowering of various tree species was viewed from space using satellite technology.

Secrets To Southern Ocean’s Critical Role In Slowing Climate Change Revealed

A new paper provides insights on one of the most important factors in the Southern Oceanic carbon cycle, the “biological pump,” where carbon is utilized by organisms at the surface and transferred to ocean depths, away from contact with the atmosphere

Undergraduate Co-Author—How UH Hilo Empowered A Student’s Research Journey

Co-authoring a research study is a significant milestone in any scholar’s academic career, but achieving this as an undergraduate student is an especially remarkable feat.

Hedging Bets To Restore Coral Reef Health

Resource managers and conservationists have been offered an innovative, new approach to selecting coral species for reef restoration

How Specificity Of The Brain Is Wired

UC Riverside mouse study identifies key molecules that determine specificity of neural circuits

Quickly Optimizing Deep Neural Networks For Different Devices

New technique makes apps perform better across devices while keeping costs about the same

Rising Temperatures Overcook Bumblebees’ Brunch

Microbes multiply in heat, changing nectar, upsetting bees

New Superconductors Can Be Built Atom by Atom

The future of electronics will be based on novel kinds of materials. Sometimes, however, the naturally occurring topology of atoms makes it difficult for new physical effects to be created. To tackle this problem, researchers at the University of Zurich have now successfully designed superconductors one atom at a time, creating new states of matter.