A $2.1 million NIH grant will enable Northern Arizona University mechanical engineer Zach Lerner to launch a major clinical trial to test a treatment strategy for children with cerebral palsy using a lightweight, wearable robotic device.
In one of the most exciting developments in astronomy in the 21st century, NASA recently launched the James Webb Space Telescope—and NAU astronomers, planetary astronomers and their students will be using the massive observatory to advance our understanding of the solar system.
How do climate change and human-elephant conflict affect household food security in Africa? NAU wildlife conservationist Duan Biggs spent three years with an international team of researchers investigating the dynamics between wildlife, people and the environment on the African savannah to better understand how both climate change and human-elephant conflict can impact household food insecurity in the region.
Northern Arizona University researchers Crystal Hepp and Jason Ladner are among the first class of early-career scientists who received funding for high-profile research projects aimed at preparing for viruses that may emerge in humans and evaluating the most effective tools to respond immediately.
A team of NAU engineers is working to create bikes that are aware of road hazards, upcoming safety concerns and efficiency to make cycling, already an ecofriendly mode of transit, a more popular mode as well.
Northern Arizona University is a key partner in a project that has been recognized for its work in achieving one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals—goals designed to protect and sustain all life on Earth amid a changing climate.
Can we impact an incoming asteroid enough to move it out of range of hitting Earth? A test mission, which is being launched Tuesday, will do a practice run on an asteroid in NASA's first planetary defense mission.
The tiny cosmos of organisms living on a streamer of algae in a river could help scientists learn what turns an environment from healthy to toxic and back again. A multidisciplinary team led by NAU has won $3 million from the NSF to translate the codex contained in the microbiome of common algae into computer algorithms that can predict a wide range of microbial interactions.
Based on preliminary findings from their research into renal and breast cancer, biochemists Archana Varadaraj and Narendiran Rajasekaran were recently awarded $469,000 by the National Institutes of Health to apply those findings to a potential treatment for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a serious, irreversible lung disease affecting more than 100,000 Americans.
Today's supply chain problems are the result of long-term changes to manufacturing and supply chain management and short-term issues related to COVID, the economy and governmental action.
In a first-of-its-kind warming experiment, researchers at Northern Arizona University found that microbes growth rate decreased over 15 years of warming. The research, published this week in Global Change Biology, showed that under warmer climate conditions, growth decreased among all types of microbes in the community, and suggested that a loss of soil carbon may be responsible for the slowdown.
Researcher Logan Berner was recently awarded $718,000 from the NSF to study how increased human development in the Arctic affects caribou herds against the backdrop of climate change. By partnering with Indigenous conservation managers and agencies in Alaska and northern Canada, Berner and his team hope to contribute in several important ways to the science of the changing Arctic through the lens of caribou ecology, land-use change and impacts on local communities.
Two NAU astronomers presented groundbreaking research this week at the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences, a branch of the American Academy of Sciences.
As the climate changes and land, air and water are at risk, Native Americans, Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples are seeing their water sources dry up and their land disappear under rising sea levels. under attack from rising global temperatures. Researchers at the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals brought together a diverse group of more than 100 authors to produce a first-of-its-kind report that provides an in-depth looks at what tribal nations are doing to protect against the climate crisis.
Team of NAU paleoclimatologists contribute to major report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, forming scientific underpinnings for negotiations to limit carbon emissions worldwide
The team, led by PI Deborah Huntzinger and co-PIs Michelle Mack and Victor Leshyk of Northern Arizona University, will create Polar Explorer, a tool that uses virtual reality to transport students to the Arctic.
The findings from Northern Arizona University's Ecological Restoration Institute suggest mobile platforms have great potential for monitoring a variety of forest attributes.
A study, published in Nature and is co-authored by Northern Arizona University professors Benjamin Ruddell and Richard Rushforth, looks at the importance of diversity within the supply chain, which helps to reduce damaging disruptions from supply chain shocks.
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