Less than 1 percent of the original Palouse Prairie remains. Split into patches of a few acres or less, the remnants tell an interesting story about insect communities.
Burr chervil is a new weed exploding across northern Idaho's landscape. The weed may offer important clues to the biology of invasive species in general.
Some fungi, it turns out, may be a western white pine's best friends. Decades after the white pine blister rust fungus swept through the vast and valuable stands of Idaho's state tree, new work by scientists is providing the rest of the story.
A fisheries researcher wants to understand how prevalent whirling disease is in the state's streams and the threat it poses to trout populations.
Richard Wells and his microelectronics research team are helping usher in the age of real electronic brains.
"The successful cloning of three mules and their excellent health is important to the horse industry. More important is the potential human health aspects of the cloning project," said a scientist.
Lucas Möller, a sophomore at Moscow High School, will visit NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena this week. Möller is designing an experimental device to measure the angle of repose of Martian dust.
A soil scientist tracks the effects of powerful chemicals found in condiments and vegetables. He sees a bright future for mustard's agricultural production for condiment and industrial uses.
They are tiny seeds containing golden opportunities. That's how a researcher, sees the rapeseed and mustard seed used in local biodiesel production.
The University of Idaho will create and distribute nationwide public education about biodiesel fuels. A $950,000 USDA grant will allow UI and Iowa State University's Center for Alternative Energy to move biofuels research from the laboratory into classrooms and boardrooms.
The University of Idaho Center for Advanced Microelectronics and Biomolecular Research unveiled a new radiation-hardened, error-correction microchip that consumes less than 15 milliwatts of power, 100 times less than current space technologies, but runs twice as fast.
The same chemistry that led to the successful cloning of a mule at the University of Idaho this month also may shed new light on the causes of specific cancers in humans. The work gave a UI-Utah State University team new insight about cell activity.
University of Idaho - Utah State University scientists announced the successful cloning of the first horse family member, a mule. The success opens new lines of inquiry for human health research. Idaho Gem, the clone, is a full sibling of a racing mule. It was born May 4.
At 14, Lucas Möller already knows a thing or two about the uncertainties of space science. His project to measure the angle of repose of Martian dust has twice been bumped from missions to Mars. University of Idaho soil physicist Markus Tuller helped refine his idea.
There's no doubt: the University of Idaho's black and green championship Clean Snowmobile is the cleanest, fastest and quietest racing sled in the U.S.
A newly revised publication by Pacific Northwest Extension experts about herbicide-resistant weeds offers farmers a tool to help avoid major problems in the future. The revision includes a new section devoted to herbicide-resistant crops.
DNA analysis by University of Idaho researchers is an essential component in a cooperative endangered species rescue program to restore sockeye salmon to central Idaho's Redfish Lake. The effort has brought ocean-going sockeyes back from the brink of extinction.
On Sept. 11, we, as a nation, held our collective breath as one of our worst nightmares unfolded. But within a matter of days, we began the process of analyzing what had happened, drawing on the expertise of historians and policymakers, military officers and politicians.
The genetic intricacies of salmon sexes and the apparent effects of pollution on both Puget Sound and Lake Mead fishes were among topics reported on by scientists gathered this week for a symposium on salmon recovery.
The University of Idaho's growing expertise in evolutionary biology and use of computer science and mathematics in the field has drawn a new $10.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
A University of Idaho zoologist is sampling more chinook salmon from Northwest rivers this fall in hope of solving a mystery: are some female chinook really gender bending males? New samples indicate the mystery pervades the Columbia Basin.
A $6M, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network at the University of Idaho, Idaho State University and Boise State University.
Land-grant universities must join forces with the federal government and private industry to more actively battle eco-terrorism attacks against university researchers, according to Bob Hoover, president of the University of Idaho and a member of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges Board of Directors.
Six subsurface science projects, including a University of Idaho study of the possible fate of stored nuclear waste, have won Inland Northwest Research Alliance and U.S. Department of Energy Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory funding.
The National Park Service now uses biodiesel in 22 parks across the country after successful testing in Yellowstone with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and University of Idaho.
When the price of diesel rises, so does the number of calls to a University of Idaho agricultural engineer who is a pioneer in the manufacture and use of biodiesel made from vegetable oil.
Researchers of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and of the University of Idaho have a $500M bet riding on who has the most accurate scientific view of aging.
It can take two weeks to know whether bighorn sheep bound for a new home carry bacteria linked to a deadly pneumonia. But a new DNA-based technique developed at the University of Idaho Caine Veterinary Teaching Center promises an answer within 24 to 48 hours.
Samples in 1999 from fall chinook salmon in the Columbia River's Hanford Reach show that four-fifths of the females spawning there apparently began life as males. (Environmental Health Perspectives)
A University of Idaho research scientist seeks new materials to improve dental implants. Her work focuses on ensuring they don't loosen after several years due to failed bonding with the surrounding jawbone.
A team of University of Idaho child development, nutrition and education specialists have retooled a popular class, "Feeding Young Children in Group Settings," to freshen it and adapt it to the Internet.
University of Idaho computer scientists and mathematicians are joining biologists to explore new ways to interpret complex genetic information. A new supercomputer will help them reach that goal.
The discovery of key molecules that affect nerve growth both expands basic understanding of the topic and may lead to medical treatments for illnesses ranging from muscular dystrophy to nerve and spinal injury, a University of Idaho scientist believes (Neuron).
A device to help search for life beyond earth will be developed by a team of University of Idaho scientists.
A unique collaboration of regional universities is expected to enhance research, higher education and job creation throughout the Inland Northwest. Among the first anticipated impacts are advancements in environmental cleanup technologies.
University of Idaho zoologist Steven Austad first began to intensively study the biology of aging a dozen years ago. Humanity's natural preoccupation with aging has accelerated during that time, Austad says.
The University of Idaho and Society of Environmental Journalists will draw working journalists and scientists together Nov. 6 and 7 to consider some of the leading issues facing the Northwest and the nation.
The National Cancer Institute has accepted an anti-tumor drug candidate developed at the University of Idaho for biological evaluation as a potential treatment for cancer.
University of Idaho researchers say a change in cattle diets suggested earlier as a way to eliminate the threat of lethal E. coli in beef won't work.
A $90,000 fellowship from the National Institutes of Health will allow a University of Idaho Computer Science researcher to explore biological evolution and help him learn nature's rules to use in his research into genetic programming.
Bacteria can make or break efforts to restore bighorn sheep to Hells Canyon and their other historic ranges in the West. University of Idaho research evaluates bacteria from wildlife and livestock to identify killer strains and how the strains vary.
The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania offer peace and glimmers of prosperity nearly a decade after their independence from the former Soviet Union, according to a University of Idaho geographer.
While Idaho and other state and federal agencies launch aggressive programs to combat weeds, rangeland scientists suggest sheep and goats offer a kinder, gentler weapon to supplement herbicides and other control methods.
MOSCOW, Idaho -- University of Idaho psychologist Brian Dyre is helping the U.S. Air Force fine tune virtual displays, those futuristic glimmers of light that project vital information on windshields for pilots.
Certain naturally-occurring bacteria living in the floor of Lake Coeur d'Alene may be helping to prevent the release of contaminants such as lead and zinc into lake waters, according to a University of Idaho scientist.
A process already used to extract caffeine from coffee beans and bittering agents from hops shows promise for a new environmentally friendly way to handle nuclear waste, say University of Idaho chemists.
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