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Baoshan Xing and Team Study How To Grow More Nutritious Rice With Less Fertilizer

The team found that nano-scale selenium reduced the negative environmental impacts of nitrogen fertilization in rice by 41%.

Published date Tuesday, September 23, 2025 Go to all news list News

Chemistry and Computer Science Collaboration Wins NSF Grant

This work could improve how scientists from various areas identify unknown molecules through spectroscopic analysis.

Published date Friday, September 19, 2025 Go to all news list News

Brian Yellen Teams Up with USGS and Others to Shed Light on the Location of Pyrrhotite

Pyrrhotite weakens concrete over time, posing a costly hazard to homeowners and communities.

Published date Wednesday, September 17, 2025 Go to all news list News

Daniel Corkran, David Boutt, and Team Find that Water’s Density is Key to Sustainable Lithium Mining

This work uncovers the previously unknown physical mechanisms that govern sustainable water usage.

Published date Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Go to all news list News

VASCI Researchers Find Pathogen-fighting Cells that Demonstrate ‘Immunological Memory’

This research on T-cells may open the door to next-generation cancer vaccines.

Published date Thursday, September 11, 2025 Go to all news list News

Study Co-authored by Richard W. Harper Examines Pros and Cons of Replacing Forests with Solar

This study weighs the trade-offs of replacing forests with photovoltaic panels.

Published date Thursday, September 11, 2025 Go to all news list News

EGCS Part of International Team Warning of Risks of Polar Geoengineering to Slow Climate Change

This team assesses five of the most developed geoengineering ideas currently being considered for deployment in Antarctica and the Arctic.

Published date Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Physicists Estimate That We Could See an Exploding Black Hole in the Next Ten Years

Such an explosion would be strong evidence of a theorized but never observed kind of black hole, called a “primordial black hole.”

Published date Tuesday, September 9, 2025 Go to all news list News

Forrest J. Bowlick and Team Launch MassView, a Service Strengthening MA’s Geospatial Resources

MassView will have a primary focus on expanding and strengthening offerings in remote-sensing data, science, and applications.

Published date Friday, August 15, 2025 Go to all news list News

Baoshan Xing and International Team Consider How Bad Micro- and Nanoplastics Are for Our Health

A new study points to a series of best practices that could get us one step closer to determining MNPs' real threat to human health.

Published date Tuesday, August 12, 2025 Go to all news list News

Physics Students Explain Why Six Feet of Social Distancing May Not Be Enough

The duo has modeled how aerosol plumes spread when people are waiting and walking in a line.

Published date Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Microbiologist James Holden Looks to Sea for Answers to the Potential Existence of Alien Life

Holden lends his lifetime of experience with rare microbes to NASA's efforts to find life on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

Published date Monday, July 14, 2025 Go to all news list News

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