New public health research shows that emergency department (ED) visits by Native Hawaiian children with asthma account for the largest proportion of the total statewide costs for potentially preventable visits for children’s asthma
A Texas A&M study shows that COVID-19, hemorrhage and hypertension were the country's leading causes of maternal deaths in a one-year period.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are locations designed to protect the oceans’ valuable resources. New guidelines co-authored by a University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa expert aim to assist stewards of the world’s oceans, including in Hawaiʻi, with establishing and maintaining effective MPAs.
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.
Crashing waves and water temperature along rocky shorelines strongly influence the growth patterns of the yellowfoot limpet (Cellana sandwicensis), or ʻopihi ʻālinalina, an intertidal species endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
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.
Texas A&M researcher Timothy H. Callaghan and colleagues propose five short-term steps to prioritize health over politics.
Texas A&M researchers have described the mechanisms that enable bacteria to adapt to varying viscosities in their environment.
The approach might also be beneficial for anyone exposed to lethal chemical agents, including those involved in the pest control and agricultural industries.
Texas A&M researchers have a novel idea to capture waste from passenger vehicle exhaust for use in urban greenhouses for food production.
Reversible system can flip the magnetic orientation of particles with a small voltage; could lead to faster data storage and smaller sensors.
MIT scientists show how fast algorithms are improving across a broad range of examples, demonstrating their critical importance in advancing computing.
The joint burial of two 1,500-year-old skeletons offers a look into attitudes toward love and the afterlife during China's North Wei Dynasty, a Texas A&M expert says.
In a new study, Texas A&M researchers have discovered that a class of ceramics called MAX phases can self-heal cracks even at room temperature.
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 study could be the first step toward creating portable systems for home use that can change oxygen supply depending on a patient’s needs.
MIT researchers have analyzed greenhouse gas emissions from future buildings across America and outlined region-specific solutions.