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The American West stretches from the sandy shores of the Pacific to the peaks of the Rockies, its diverse landscapes of deserts, foothills, beaches, mesas, grasslands, and mountains boasting of sunshine in the summer and snowpack in the winter. Water is...

Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently awarded a $600,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to pursue new research on the elastic anisotropy of mantle minerals...

There’s no doubt that climate change is affecting ecosystems as well as the lifestyles of plants and animals around the globe. As temperatures rise, so do the complexity of the issues. Scientists, both in the United States and around the world, are...

A team of students, under the leadership of Andrea Polli, a professor at The  University of New Mexico's College of Fine Arts and associate professor of Computer Science at the UNM School of Engineering, has been working on a project called BioShield, a...

It took two years and a lot of trial and error but two researchers at The University of New Mexico Center for High Tech Materials (CHTM) have built "from scratch" a Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscope, capable of imaging objects less than...

University of New Mexico graduate student Monika “Mo” Hobbs has been conducting research along the Chama River and El Vado Dam in northern New Mexico to attempt to learn how the flow of water affects invertebrates and their environment. Last year, Hobbs...

A UNM School of Architecture and Planning (SA&P) student’s assessment of work environments and public spaces led him to be listed among an elite group of 2019 CRIT Scholars. The award is given annually by the prestigious American Institute of...

Four scientists at The University of New Mexico have been selected as the recipients for the 2019 Women in STEM awards. The recipients this year include Dr. Darcy Barron, Dr. Sakineh Chabi, Dr. Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Dr. Hannah Mattson. Their work...

New research project aims to study interactions of boron and ribose in groundwater on Mars Does life exist beyond Earth? Human beings have pondered this question since we first gazed up at the stars. Today, planetary scientists turn to our solar system...

Two years ago a team of scientists visited Costa Rica’s subduction zone, where the ocean floor sinks beneath the continent and volcanoes tower above the surface, to find out if microbes can affect the cycle of carbon moving form Earth’s surface into the...