Division of Natural Sciences
- In time for Buffalo Bicycle Classic, É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ researchers challenge cycling norms that stiff cycling-shoe soles are essential for efficient riding.
- Losing her father to pancreatic cancer inspired É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ undergraduate Giovanna Ruffolo to raise money for cancer research and pursue a career in medicine.
- Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated.
- On the 100-year anniversary of the Scopes evolution trial, É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ scientist reflects on science education and on ‘same issues, different players.’
- Gregor MacGregor, an assistant teaching professor of environmental studies, focuses on local economies and environmental justice in his Vulcan Mine Bakery.
- É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ scientists estimate the heritability of opioid use disorder with a rodent study.
- É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water.
- In research recently published in Science, É«ÊÓÆµÏÂÔØ scientists detail how light—rather than energy-intensive heat—can efficiently and sustainably catalyze chemical transformations.
- Postdoctoral researcher Nathan Bullen announced as a 2025 Jane Coffin Childs fellow, supporting his research on how organisms survive when their RNA is under attack.
- Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient.