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University of New Mexico Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences Tobias Fischer was involved in a study published in this week’s journal Nature on the link between the mantle of the Earth and the atmosphere by studying nitrogen and its origins. The...

In a new study published this week in the journal “Nature,” UNM Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melissa Emery Thompson is one of a group of researchers analyzing the way humans store fat and expend the energy from food.  

A new article in the journal “Nature” this week paints the outlines of a group of people who began to populate the land we know as modern day Europe starting 45,000 years ago. The article pieces together the work of researchers from dozens on...

Clues left behind in a cave in central America have allowed an international, multidisciplinary team of researchers, including several at the University of New Mexico, to produce a new paleoclimate rainfall record that illustrates the contribution of ...

A study published in the journal “Nature,” examines how chimpanzees kill in the wild. The study, titled “Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts,” features collaborative research that concludes lethal aggr