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For podcast listeners in the United States, true crime is wildly popular. According to the Pew Research Center, 41% of listeners ages 18-29 listen to the genre. Pew also reported that it is the…

A surprising thing happened when researchers began exploring whether early-life stress compounds the effects of a childhood head injury on health and behavior later in life: In an animal study,…

Hormonal contraceptives taken by adolescents may influence development of the brain in a way that alters the recognition of risks, a new study in rats suggests.

Scientists at The Ohio…

Researchers have discovered a series of large undersea sediment deposits in a region near Italy that were likely formed by an ancient volcanic supereruption. 

Scientists have calculated a way to determine the speed of past underwater landslides, a new study has found. 

Researchers from The Ohio State University studied…

In today’s hyper-partisan political environment, many people refuse to listen to any perspective that doesn’t reflect their own views. Is it even possible to imagine a world that runs on civil…

Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a hand in understanding the paleoecology tracing of extinct organisms? 

By Z. Daniel Barnett

In September 2023, the Campus Chemical Instrument Center (CCIC) and Gateway National Ultrahigh Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility welcomed the delivery of a state-of-the-art, 1.2…

Should you stay in your car if there’s a tornado? How does climate change affect weather? The associate professor of geography shares the whys and hows.