In a paper published today in Science (and featured on the cover), an international team of researchers led by Princeton graduate student Ciro Cabal sheds light on the underground life of plants.

Psoriasis has always been a common disease. Historically, its causes were obscure and surrounded by stigma; it wasn’t until recently that scientists categorized it as an autoimmune condition.

The study is the first published research analysing the calls of long-finned pilot whales in the Southern Hemisphere, which were recorded in the Great Australian Bight, off WA and SA, between 2013 and 2017.

In May 2020 Nicki Frey, an Extension assistant professor in the S.J & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources, and her undergraduate researcher, Natalie D’Souza, began monitoring wildlife use of a new overpass crossing I-80 in Parley’s Canyon in Summit County, Utah.

How is climate change affecting public lands and what are land management agencies doing about it? A team of scientists from the fields of sociology, watershed sciences, wildland resources, ecology, environment and society, mathematic, and outdoor recreation and tourism asked these questions in a recent Ecosphere study.

When Terrie Williams began hearing about the wide range of symptoms experienced by patients with COVID-19, she saw a connection between the various ways the disease is affecting people and the many physiological adaptations that have enabled marine mammals to tolerate low oxygen levels during dives.

What makes the elderly and people with underlying conditions more vulnerable to COVID-19? 

With an increasing demand for a more sustainable alternative for high-rise construction, new research from UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with Western University and FPInnovations, points to timber as a sustainable and effective way to make tall, high-density, and renewable buildings.

Analyses by KAUST researchers of sand temperatures at marine turtle nesting sites around the Red Sea indicate that turtle hatchlings born in the region could now be predominantly female.

The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.