Research
²ÊÃñ±¦µä physicist plans to use the award to pursue cutting-edge plasma-physics research.
A similar complexity appears in the history of early Christianity in how religion functioned, both in terms of rituals and in the use of the Latin term it derives from.
After leading a ‘call to action’ on burgeoning mental-illness crisis, prof launches a massive, open online course on mental health.
Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä historian wins NEH-Mellon fellowship for digital publication.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä prof warned of violence fueled by Trump’s viral lies years ago.
Pence’s religious and political biography mirrors key political and religious shifts over the past 40 years.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s David Pyrooz and Arizona State University colleague win the outstanding book award from Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
²ÊÃñ±¦µä researchers have discovered a new compound capable of pushing past the defenses of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It, and other recent discoveries from the lab, could lead to a new arsenal for combating the rising threat of superbugs.
Despite the unprecedented challenges everyone has faced in 2020, ²ÊÃñ±¦µä researchers continued to deliver findings that will improve the lives of people across the globe—or simply dazzle us with new insights into the natural world. Here are some of our top picks for the discoveries that defined our year in research.