AMHERST, Mass. – More than 40 scientists, led by a group of project directors, will focus on six economically important species and their relatives to develop the tools needed to create vaccines and tests for infectious animal diseases that threaten agriculture and the food supply.

AMHERST, Mass. – The ability to bite off more than one can chew is related to the anatomy of the skull, contend University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists, who are putting their heads together to explore the relationship between the biomechanics of biting and the evolution of skull shape diversity in bats.

AMHERST, Mass. – Five faculty affiliated with the Center for Research on Families (CRF) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been awarded more than $903,000 in research support by the National Science Foundation.

AMHERST, Mass. – Work by University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Martin D. Weinberg and colleagues at the University of California Berkeley suggests that the most prominent of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are interacting with the Milky Way’s ghostly dark matter to create a mysterious warp in the galactic disk that has puzzled astronomers for half a century.