by Hardin Young | Jan 3, 2025 | Books & Publications, Features, Research, Research and Innovation
New Paper Examines the Elusive Nature of Liquid Brines on Mars More than a hundred years ago, astronomer Percival Lowell made the case for the existence of canals on Mars designed to redistribute water from the Martian ice caps to its lower, drier latitudes. This...
by Hardin Young | Nov 28, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
Social Networked Friendship Quality Can Be Means of Combating Loneliness Loneliness is on the rise in the U.S., with a third of Americans reporting they’ve experienced “serious loneliness” in recent years. Lonely people are twice as likely to become depressed, and...
by Hardin Young | Oct 30, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation
New Findings Supply Corrective to Evolutionary Hypothesis For decades, researchers have observed that rates of evolution seem to accelerate over short time periods – say five million years versus fifty million years. This broad pattern has suggested that “younger”...
by Hardin Young | Oct 12, 2024 | Features, Research, Research and Innovation, Student Success
Researchers Publish Breakthrough Study on How New Genes Evolve Where do new genes come from? That’s the question a team of biological sciences researchers from the U of A set out to answer in a new study. They did so by examining the evolution of antifreeze...
by Hardin Young | Oct 5, 2024 | Awards & Honors, Features, Research, Research and Innovation
International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology Announces Shields for Dirk Hellhammer Award Grant Shields, an assistant professor of psychological sciences at the U of A, has been awarded the 2024 Dirk Hellhammer Award from the International Society of...
