Biology

The 21st century has already seen multiple major new disease outbreaks, from SARS and MERS to Ebola and Zika, culminating in the current COVID-19 pandemic. The global human suffering, economic damage, and social disruption the global population is...

Eight faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2020 Women in STEM awards. Their work includes research on the impact of global warming on alpine stream biology, the creation of a better way to identify missing and...

A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will fund digitization of museum mammal collections at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico (UNM) and University of Michigan through a collaboration with scientists at three other...

Fire has been a central component in California’s natural and human history for millennia. Native Americans’ use of cultural burns in landscape management, in addition to lightning-ignited fires that burned unhindered, impacted most of the state's...

Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...

Melanie Moses, a professor of computer science and biology at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded National Science Foundation funding to understand how human lungs...

Immersed in boredom because of the COVID-19 shutdown, many people are using the extra time on their hands during their isolation at home to get creative. Artists are plying their talents, homeowners are tackling landscaping and home improvement projects...

A wide range of University of New Mexico researchers from across main and north campuses are utilizing UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing resources to study COVID-19. Researchers from...

It was billed as “The Science of Biodiversity,” an open house held recently in the CERIA Building at The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology where millions of plant and animal specimens are housed for research purposes in the museum...

During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is a corresponding “infodemic,” a surfeit of information and misinformation that makes it difficult for the average American to find the facts they need to navigate the ongoing public health crisis. In an...