Why Are Fish Getting Smaller as Waters Warm?
A team of scientists led by the UMass Amherst recently found that there is no physiological evidence supporting a leading theory as to why fish are shrinking.
Trisha Andrew, Chemistry, Discusses Our Sense of Temperature With 'Scientific American'
Andrew discusses how our choice of clothing can impact our experience of temperature.
UMass Team Awarded $5.5M to Accelerate Research Translation Efforts of Campus Researchers
The team won an Accelerating Research Translation (ART) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Research by Jianhan Chen and Team Advances Modeling of Biomolecular Condensates
This work is a major advance toward understanding how intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) undergo spontaneous phase separation.
Research Led by CNS Finds Culling Sharks Not the Answer to Lost Tarpon Catches
Researchers quantified the rate at which great hammerhead sharks are eating Atlantic tarpon hooked by anglers at Bahia Honda, Florida.
CNS Astronomer Helps Find Proof of a Persistent Black Hole Shadow
Gopal Narayanan and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration recently released new images of M87*.
CNS Faculty Members Boutt, Woodruff, and DeConto Named to Mass. Climate Science Advisory Panel
David Boutt, Jon Woodruff, and Robert DeConto will be offering expertise in snowfall, sea-level rise, water cycling, and coastal sediment movement.
UMass Amherst Scientists Discover Southern Africa’s Temps Will Rise Past Rhinos’ Tolerance
A research team from the College of Natural Sciences has shared findings on rhino's heat tolerance in the journal Biodiversity.
New Doc Highlights UMass's Work on JWST's Imaging of 'Pandora’s Cluster'
"Deep Sky," a documentary about the sights captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), opened at the Boston Museum of Science's IMAX dome screen.
Astronomy Graduate Student Amanda Lee Contributes to Research on Star Formation
Lee is part of a team of astronomers tackling a persistent question: where do stars come from, and how/why do stars form at the far edges of galaxies?
CNS and Texas A&M Find That Bacteria-killing Polymers Avoid Resistance to Antibiotics
The team evaluated their polymers against antibiotic-resistant E. coli bacteria and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).