Rutgers and other scientists show how microbes help store millions of tons of carbon dioxide Up to about 19 percent more carbon dioxide than previously believed is removed naturally and stored underground between coastal trenches and inland chains of volcanoes, keeping the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere, according to a study in the journal […]
Research
New Jersey Gets Official State Microbe: Streptomyces Griseus
Selman Waksman – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
New Jersey Gets Official State Microbe: Streptomyces Griseus
Selman Waksman – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
Global Warming Hits Sea Creatures Hardest
Marine life more sensitive to warming, less able to escape from heat, Rutgers-led study find Global warming has caused twice as many ocean-dwelling species as land-dwelling species to disappear from their habitats, a unique Rutgers-led study found. The greater vulnerability of sea creatures may significantly impact human communities that rely on fish and shellfish for […]
Study: Male and Female Bees Frequent Different Flowers
Michael Roswell, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Reousrces
With flower preferences, bees have a big gap
Michael Roswell, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
Rachel Winfree, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources
On Earth Day, A New Environmental Concern Revealed By Rutgers Scientists
Abigail Porter, Department of Environmental Sciences
Plants in the City: Herbaria as Lenses into the Past to Better See Our Future
Amy Gage, Ameen Lotfi, and Lena Struwe contributed to this article. On the first warm and sunny spring Saturday this year, scientists, students, naturalists and herbaria enthusiasts alike gathered away from the sun in a Rutgers conference room for the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: “Plants in the City” symposium on March 30. They set aside any weekend […]
2019 NEFS Graduate Student Conference
The 2019 Nutrition, Endocrinology, and Food Science (NEFS) Graduate Student Conference took place on April 2nd at the Cook Campus Center. This year the group welcomed ninety-three attendees including twenty-five poster presenters. This annual conference is the result of collaborations between the Endocrinology and Animal Biosciences, Food Science, and Nutritional Sciences Graduate Student Organizations. The […]
For centuries, scientists sought a tuberculosis cure. A Passaic man found it in the dirt
Douglas Eveleigh, Max Haggblom, Jeffrey Boyd – Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology
