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A University of New Mexico Biology professor and second year Ph.D. student are part of a team of scientists have examined the immune system of an unusual group of mammals, which includes a small South American opossum, to find solutions that evolution...

The UNM Health Sciences Center (HSC) is celebrating Women’s History Month in very exciting ways. Several events have already taken place this month, and many more are yet to come. HSC has collaborated with the Feminist Research Institute (FRI) on many...

Matthew Lakin, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of New Mexico, has been selected for a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that seeks to use DNA nanotechnology to program the behavior of...

Life on earth is so diverse, in large part because individual species are restricted to particular areas. If populations were to expand unfettered across continents, communities everywhere would contain the same species. But they don’t. Why communities...

Experts and parents alike have long debated whether human boys and girls tend to be more or less physically aggressive because of nature or nurture. New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on young chimpanzees indicates...

Some of the most famous anthropologists are women: Margaret Mead, Mary Leakey, Alice Roberts, and Jane Goodall, to name a few. Even in times when men were typically leaders in the field, women still made a name for themselves and continue to do so now....

In order to realize the full potential of reforestation in the United States, the nation’s tree nurseries need to increase seedling production by an additional 1.7 billion each year, a 2.4-fold increase over current nursery production. These numbers,...

The call is open for women faculty in The University of New Mexico’s STEM fields to apply for a variety of grants as part of the 2021 Women In STEM awards. Awards range from $3,000 to $15,000 and three types of grants will be awarded through the...

Paleo-ecologists from The University of New Mexico and at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have demonstrated that the offspring of enormous carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus rex may have fundamentally re-shaped their communities by...

Nick Carroll, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for a project that could eventually lead to smart implantable medical...