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Standing in line at the grocery store, airport security, or vaccination clinic may be far riskier for disease transmission than previously thought, according…
Aug 7, 2025
Low-income patients face a devastating double burden when health insurance companies deny their claims: they're not only more likely to receive denials in the first place, but they're also least likely to successfully challenge those denials.
Jul 2, 2025
A chance discovery in a Massachusetts laboratory has upended long-held scientific assumptions about how liquids behave, leaving even senior researchers puzzled.
Apr 4, 2025
The world's transition to electric vehicles and renewable energy storage may be built on a dangerously flawed assumption.
Mar 26, 2025
In a world often characterized by aggressive male behavior, a unique species of baboon is turning heads in the scientific community by showing that being nice might be an evolutionary advantage.
Feb 4, 2025
A decade-long study by University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers has revealed a complex picture of casino gambling's impact on the Bay State.
Oct 25, 2024
Informal political polls conducted on X/Twitter during both the 2016 and 2020 U.S.
Jul 16, 2024
A team of scientists led by François Lapointe, a research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2…
Jun 3, 2024
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and their collaborators have demonstrated that their analog computing device, called a memristor, can perform complex scientific computations while overcoming the limitations of digital computing.
Mar 15, 2024
A collaborative team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which runs the world’s largest…
Feb 2, 2024
Southern Africa contains the vast majority of the world’s remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%, respectively). The region’s climate is changing rapidly as a result global warming.
Jan 17, 2024
Researchers at UMass Lowell’s Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences are exploring how the gut microbiome contributes to the risk of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.
Nov 16, 2023
A team of computer scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, led by Emery Berger, recently unveiled a prize-winning Python profiler called Scalene.
Aug 29, 2023
AMHERST, Mass. – A new study, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, reveals that the wealthiest Americans, those whose income places them in the top 10% of earners, are responsible for 40% of the nation’s total greenhouse gas emissions.
Aug 18, 2023
