International research co-led by UMass Amherst offers strong potential to address three major global challenges: a growing population, the effects of climate change, and the increasing economic and ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

Scientists found that nanopores’ electrical charges control how ions flow and when pores temporarily shut down. The discovery could allow engineers to design nanopores that “learn” like synapses for ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero.

Intensifying floods are rapidly undermining global rice production, putting food security at risk for billions.

Cosmic dust trapped, or blocked, by Arctic ice allowed researchers to map 30,000 years of sea-ice history. Their findings ...

Parakeets form new friendships by slowly testing how close they can safely get to unfamiliar birds. This careful process ...

The findings, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, come from an analysis of 25 studies. The team compared neurometabolite levels, which are chemicals created during brain metabolism, ...

Feline dementia mirrors human Alzheimer’s, hinting that cats may help reveal how memory fades — and how it could be restored.

Researchers discovered that in a rare kidney cancer, RNA builds droplet-like hubs that act as growth control centers inside tumor cells. By engineering a molecular switch to dissolve these hubs, they ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

New research has overturned decades of uncertainty by showing that Nanotyrannus was a fully grown predator, not a juvenile T. rex. For many years, paleontologists have debated whether the single skull ...