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Low levels of inorganic arsenic, thought safe, might be harming American Indian communities in the western United States.
A team of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä scientists is working to unlock a longstanding ecological mystery: barren patches of ground in Africa's grasslands known as fairy circles.
Caterpillars have far less bacteria and fungi inhabiting their guts than other organisms, making them an evolutionary oddity in the animal kingdom.
Tremendous amounts of soot following a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago would have plunged Earth into darkness for nearly two years, according to a news release from NCAR.
For humans, our sense of touch is relayed to the brain via small electrical pulses. But new research shows that individual bacteria can feel their external environment in a similar way.
A new study uncovers surprising similarities in the ways that multicellular organisms fold their DNA.
Ancient DNA used to track the exodus of Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico.
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Norman Pace of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology has won the 2017 Massry Prize for his microbiome research.
As the hullabaloo surrounding the Aug. 21 total eclipse of the sun swells by the day, a ²ÊÃñ±¦µä faculty member says a petroglyph in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon may represent a total eclipse that occurred there a thousand years ago.
Wildfires may be changing Colorado forests, thanks to shifting precipitation and temperatures driven in part by climate change, researchers find.