NSF-funded researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and MIT estimated the time it would take water to journey from the lower branch of the Atlantic to around the world's ocean basins.

A team of researchers at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School found regular physical activity has widespread, positive effects on a child's developing brain-their own unique connectome.

NSF-funded scientists analyzed more than 1,100 fossil pollen records to understand how ecosystems have changed since the end of the last Ice Age--some 18,000 years ago.

SCIENTISTS AT THE WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION EXAMINED ANTIBIOTIC-INDUCED STRESSORS ON THE NORTHERN STAR CORAL, LOCATED IN THE MURKIER, COLDER WATERS NEAR CAPE COD. THEY WANTED TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE CORAL REASSEMBLES ITSELF FOLLOWING A DISRUPTION.

Anthropologists analyzed the fossilized dental plaque of a one-hundred-thousand-year-old Neanderthal to explore the evolution of the oral microbiome.

Bioengineers create pH-sensing gut bacteria to diagnose inflammatory bowel disease

Overdo much? You’re not alone. A study at the University of Virginia found that we tend to add – not subtract – some element when working up new ideas or solutions. It’s faster and easier, but not always better!

Researchers at the Oregon State University Biochemistry Department have taken a key step toward developing new drugs and vaccines to combat COVID-19.

A COLLAPSE OF THIS FLORIDA-SIZED GLACIER COULD RAISE SEA LEVELS SIGNIFICANTLY AROUND THE WORLD, POSSIBLY BEFORE THE END OF THIS CENTURY.

NSF'S U.S ANTARCTIC PROGRAM AND THE UK NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL'S BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY HAVE TEAMED UP TO SEND SCIENTISTS TO THE REMOTE REGION BY LAND, SEA, AND AIR TO STUDY EVERY ASPECT OF THE GLACIER OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS.

Our teeth have stories to tell-- if we like sweets, if we floss -- so a U.S. research team used dental checkups on Arctic foxes to learn what they eat and why -- and why it matters as the Arctic warms.