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A new study led by researchers at the University of Minnesota has found a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria, and disease later in life.

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The honeycomb structure of pristine graphene is beautiful, but a national group of researchers has discovered that if the graphene naturally has a few tiny holes in it, you have a proton-selective membrane that could lead to improved fuel cells.

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Phosphorus, a highly reactive element commonly found in match heads, tracer bullets, and fertilizers, can be turned into a stable crystalline form known as black phosphorus. In a new study, researchers from the University of Minnesota used an ultrathin black phosphorus film—only 20 layers of atoms—to demonstrate high-speed data communication on nanoscale optical circuits.

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Growing global trade is critically important for providing food when and where it’s needed — but it makes it harder to link the benefits of food and the environmental burden of its production. A study published this week in the journal BioScience by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment proposes to extend the way we characterize global food trade to include nutritional value and resource consumption alongside more conventional measures of trade’s value.

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Experts on Liberia situation

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Expert on the Supreme Court and gay rights calls ruling most important civil rights decision since Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954.

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University of Minnesota Law School Professor Daniel Farber is available to discuss the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the two lawsuits involving Affirmative Action.

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The first and only multi-building arts district on a university campus opens this September at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus in Minneapolis. The 10-acre West Bank Arts Quarter includes five teacher and performance buildings for art, dance, music and theater.

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Erika Lee, University of Minnesota history professor, explores the dark side of U.S. immigration history with her work on the exclusion of Chinese immigrants.

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Ann Masten, director of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, is known internationally as one of the world's most influential researchers studying resilience in children at risk.

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The post-World War II years have seen a constant struggle to assess the economic value of scientific research, and it isn't over yet.

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Leading constitutional law scholars from around the country will gather at the University of Minnesota Law School on Monday, Feb. 24, for a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison.

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Contrary to other studies of working teenagers, a new study by University of Minnesota sociologist Jeylan Mortimer shows that adolescent work experiences can provide many benefits.

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The selective "stickiness" of DNA has been used to construct a scaffolding for closely spaced nanoparticles that could exchange information on a scale of only 10 angstroms, allowing assembly of components on a much smaller scale and with much greater precision.

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Tips topics: 1) Thermal protection for space vehicles 2) Impact of Columbia loss on public 3) New spacesuit in the works

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We've called them scum, lifesavers, and even hors d'oeuvres, but only since 1995 has anyone called fungi "relatives." The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.65 million to sort out relationships among this diverse group of organisms.

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The spectacular aurora borealis displays that light up the northern nights could be powered by a gigantic "slinky" effect in Earth's magnetic field lines.

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Experiments with blue jays at the University of Minnesota suggest that animals may be induced to cooperate despite a temptation to cheat when their opponent reciprocates by tit-for-tat behavior and rewards accumulate over a sequence of interactions.

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University of Minnesota researchers will present findings that demonstrate promise for unrelated donor transplant patients and sufferers of Parkinson's disease Monday, Dec. 9, in Philadelphia.

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University of Minnesota researchers, with collaborators at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, have completed sequencing the genome of the bacteria that causes Johne's disease, a major chronic wasting disease of dairy cattle.