Hyperspectral airborne imaging of a field at the U of M's Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. With the goal of revolutionizing how the world understands the causes and consequences of biodiversity.

CBS researchers join an interdisciplinary group to study the persistence of an emerging disease in the environment, hoping to limit spread in MN. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world as.

Imagine if you were editing an email and every time you tried to change a word, three other words would randomly change as well. That probably sounds like a frustrating and time-consuming way to.

Marlene Zuk, a faculty member in the department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, was named a 2019 Regents Professor. She is a world-leader in her work studying parasitology, as well as the.

In the past several decades, a mutation has spread among male Pacific field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) in Hawaii that leads to wing structures that are unable to produce the crickets' signature.

Widespread adaptation of healthier diets would markedly reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and food production, according to new research from the University of Minnesota and Oxford.

Dragonflies and damselflies are animals that may appear gentle, but are — in fact — ancient hunters. The closely related insects shared an ancestor over 250 million years ago — long before dinosaurs —.

While cuttlefish wearing glasses is an unexpected sight, a University of Minnesota-led research team built an underwater theater and equipped the cephalopods with specialized 3D glasses to investigate.

Two new NSF grants allow Suzanne McGaugh and colleagues to gain more insight into how cavefish can alter behavior given changing conditions. Antisocial blind cavefish are drastically different from.

A new “flight arena” allows Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido to analyze dragonflies’ hunting movements, then ask how they do it. Fruit flies float into the humid air in a custom room dubbed the arena, and the.