October 5th, 2018
Cities’ population, transportation patterns affect how flu epidemics play out
The more people a city has and the more organized its residents’ movement patterns, the longer its flu season is apt to last.
The more people a city has and the more organized its residents’ movement patterns, the longer its flu season is apt to last.
A new $1.1 million grant led by ecologist Francis Chan will track and measure the effects of hypoxia on marine species and habitats in Oregon. […]
Oregon State microbiologists have made a key advance toward understanding which of the trillions of gut microbes may play important roles in how humans and […]
Manta rays’ feeding mechanism may hold clues to a new, improved filtration system.
New research shows that a big earthquake can not only cause other quakes, but large ones, and on the opposite side of the Earth.
The College of Science received $11.3 million in research grants and awards in FY18.
The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked the Earth.
Biophysicist Elisar Barbar and team have discovered that the intrinsically disordered state of the protein ASCIZ, a key transcription factor within cells, plays a major […]
Size is the main factor that predicts how calcifying organisms will respond to ocean acidification, according to a new study by biology Ph.D. candidate Allison […]
Biochemist and biophysicist David Hendrix and collaborators have used deep learning to decipher which ribonucleic acids have the potential to encode proteins.
Ph.D. student Amber Vogel received the 2018-19 Christopher and Catherine Mathews Graduate Fellowship in biochemistry and biophysics.
Chemistry professor Walter Loveland named a 2018 Fellow by the American Chemical Society.
Genetic research has shed new light on how isolated populations of the same species evolve toward reproductive incompatibility and thus become separate species.
OSU biophysicist Weihong Qiu has solved a longstanding puzzle concerning the design of molecular motors, paving the way toward new cancer therapies.
Nearly 400 scientists and acclaimed science writer Ed Yong will participate in the 9th International Symbiosis Society Congress at OSU.
Biochemist Adrian Gombart discovered nanofiber-based wound dressings loaded with vitamin D spur production of an antimicrobial peptide, a key step to battling surgical site infections.
The NSF Research Traineeship project on “Risk and Uncertainty Quantification in Marine Science” at OSU is preparing a new generation of natural resource scientists.
Physicist’s discovery on light and pollination can have an impact on the $15 billion bee economy.
Physicist Oksana Ostroverkhova discovers a semi-conducting material in organic pigment secreted by wood-eating fungi.
Astrophysicist Davide Lazzati and team have confirmed that last fall’s union of two neutron stars caused a short gamma-ray burst.
