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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.
UMass Amherst kinesiologists expand research into physical activity benefits for youth with a family dog.
UMass Amherst-based NEWVEC has developed a method to monitor and prevent potentially deadly infections.
Lawmakers are more likely to have fiery takes on social media and tone it down in newsletters and floor speeches.
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.
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.
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.
UMass is leading the core effort to design architectures and protocols for quantum networking for the National Science Foundation’s Center for Quantum Networks.
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.
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.
UMass Amherst researcher Brandyn Churchill finds that “it can be an effective tool to achieve public health objectives.”
UMass Amherst engineers have been awarded $3 million to ‘green up’ the carbon-intensive cement-making process.
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.
Forget gummies – a new UMass Amherst study finds dried fruit has the highest nutritional value.
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.
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.
Team rewrites the textbooks by showing that electromagnetic radiation is an independent pathway for heat transmission in translucent materials.
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.
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.
Kinesiology researchers in the musculoskeletal and orthopedic biomechanics lab group at UMass Amherst continue to seek volunteers aged 30-40 and 70-80.