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Samples gathered from 18 naturally deceased primates shows remarkable variation in humans and chimps, provides pathway for understanding the evolutionary uniqueness of primates.

March 28, 2024
Katie Rickelton preparing to sequence primate RNA at the UMass IALS Genomics Core.

UMass Amherst kinesiologists expand research into physical activity benefits for youth with a family dog.

March 27, 2024
child with dog

UMass Amherst-based NEWVEC has developed a method to monitor and prevent potentially deadly infections.

March 26, 2024

Lawmakers are more likely to have fiery takes on social media and tone it down in newsletters and floor speeches.

March 25, 2024
The U.S. Capitol Building

In a boon for medical researchers, the new tool is the first that can measure both mechanical movement and electrical signal in vitro using a single sensor.

March 21, 2024
A bioelectronic mesh, studded with graphene sensors (red), can measure the electrical signal and movement of cardiac tissue (purple and green) at the same time.

There is a surprising dearth of research about how breast cancer cells can go dormant, spread and then resurface years or even decades later, according to a new review of in vitro breast cancer studies conducted by UMass Amherst researchers.

March 19, 2024
A scene from the Peyton Lab. Credit: Ben Barnhart

The team includes associate professor of computer science and education Ivon Arroyo, Doctoral Program director Professor Peter J. Haas, Professor Emeritus Leon Osterweil and postdoctoral researcher Heather Conboy.

March 18, 2024
Ivon Arroyo, Peter J. Haas and Leon Osterweil

UMass is leading the core effort to design architectures and protocols for quantum networking for the National Science Foundation’s Center for Quantum Networks.

March 18, 2024
Don Towsley stands at center of the team helping lead quantum computing into the future

UMass Amherst research demonstrates that a memristor device can solve complex scientific problems using significantly less energy, overcoming one of the major hurdles of digital computing.

March 15, 2024
An exemplar photograph of an integrated chip containing memristor crossbar arrays of various sizes made at UMass Amherst. Image credit: Can Li

The article, “Learning and teaching trans-inclusive language and register hybridity for multilingual writers,” is supplemented by a downloadable video of an interview of Britton and Austin about their research conducted by the journal’s editor.

March 13, 2024
Emma Britton and Theresa Austin

UMass Amherst researcher Brandyn Churchill finds that “it can be an effective tool to achieve public health objectives.”

March 12, 2024
A vaccine being administered to a patient's arm. Credit: Getty Images

UMass Amherst engineers have been awarded $3 million to ‘green up’ the carbon-intensive cement-making process.

March 7, 2024
A cement factory in the Netherlands. Credit: Getty Images

Zhu, assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was recently awarded a three-year, $450,000 Young Investigator grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to study how scientific machine learning can be used to model enormously complex physical and engineering systems, such as the unsteady fluid flows that make up turbulence.

March 6, 2024
Wei Zhu

Forget gummies – a new UMass Amherst study finds dried fruit has the highest nutritional value.

March 5, 2024
A person holding gummy fruit snacks. Credit: Getty Images

The Musculoskeletal Orthopedic Biomechanics Lab Research Group of the Department of Kinesiology in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences is seeking male volunteers between the ages of 65-80 and osteoarthritis in one knee for a study investigating muscle fatigue and knee osteoarthritis and its effects on gait and mobility.

March 5, 2024
A patient's knee is ready to be scanned at the UMass hMRC Facility

New research from UMass Amherst provides one of clearest views yet of how thawing permafrost and an accelerated water cycle will greatly alter the region’s ecosystems.

March 5, 2024
Mike Rawlins collecting data on Arctic streams

Team rewrites the textbooks by showing that electromagnetic radiation is an independent pathway for heat transmission in translucent materials.

March 4, 2024
Zheng and Granick working in the lab. This photo was taken using the infrared camera they used for their experiments. The colors measure temperatures. Notice that their skin is warm and their hair is colder.

Study led by UMass Amherst senior journalism lecturer Brian McDermott finds mainstream news outlets do not have a monopoly on credibility in the eyes of the public.

March 4, 2024
A camera lens. Credit: Getty Images

A portable robotic device created by UMass Amherst researchers provides a new avenue for making state-of-the-art gait rehabilitation methods more effective and accessible.

March 4, 2024
Mark Price and Banu Abdikadirova adjust the hip exoskeleton on Meghan Huber. Credit: Derrick Zellmann

Kinesiology researchers in the musculoskeletal and orthopedic biomechanics lab group at UMass Amherst continue to seek volunteers aged 30-40 and 70-80.

March 1, 2024
People walking for exercise. Credit: Getty Images