UH-Led Team Uses NASA’s Dawn Mission to ID Icy Craters on Ceres
Might the dwarf planet Ceres have permanent ice deposits? Using NASA’s Dawn mission, a team led by Norbert Schorghofer, an astronomer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy,...
View ArticleUH Professor: Alzheimer’s Gene May Show Effects as Early as Childhood
A gene associated with Alzheimer’s disease and recovery after brain injury may show its effects on the brain and thinking skills as early as childhood, according to a study published in the July 13...
View ArticleBuilding Blocks of Life in the Cool Universe
A joint academy research at the University of Hawai‘i and two Mainland universities has found a chilling discovery about the universe’s molecular building blocks of life, according to a UH news...
View ArticleEarth-Like Planets Among 100+ Identified by UH, Astronomers, NASA
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy and the Maunakea observatories play a critical role in major astronomical discoveries. In July 2016, NASA and an international team of...
View ArticleGreen Sea Turtles Hatch at PMRF
A green sea turtle nest a quarter mile south of Shenanigan’s All Hands Club on the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kaua‘i’s Westside, hatched on the evening of July 19, according to a PMRF press...
View ArticleGreat Red Spot Heats Jupiter’s Upper Atmosphere
Researchers from Boston University’s Center for Space Physics, using data from the Infrared Telescope Facility on Maunakea, operated by NASA and the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy,...
View ArticleAbundant, Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining
In a study published in Scientific Reports, scientists discovered impressive abundance and diversity among the creatures living on the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone — an area in the...
View ArticleUH Identifies Planets with Highest Likelihood of Harboring Life
A team of astronomers known as the Kepler Habitable Zone Working Group, including University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Astronomy astronomer Nader Haghighipour, has identified which of the more...
View ArticleNew Tsunami Evacuation Zones
By Ruby Pap I was challenged at a recent public meeting by a particularly inquisitive individual. He wanted to know why the Eastside’s tsunami evacuation zones were so large, especially when there is a...
View ArticleNew App Lists Benefits and Risks of Fish Consumption
BeneFISHiary, an app created in part by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Office of Public Health Studies Assistant Professor Catherine Pirkle, provides location-specific data and the risks and benefits...
View ArticleUH Professor Studies Kilauea Volcano for 40 Years (w/ video)
Kīlauea, the Big Island’s famous volcano, has been erupting for more than 30 years, making it the one of longest-flowing volcano on Earth. Because of its remarkable and frequent activity, Kīlauea is...
View ArticleKaua‘i’s Conservation Efforts Continue to Shine
By Ruby Pap This month, the world’s largest environmental and nature conservation event is being held in Honolulu. The selection of Hawai‘i as host for the International Union for the Conservation of...
View ArticleReturn from Mars: Global Media Document UH Red Planet Simulation (w/ video)
After 365 days, the longest mission in project history, and amidst a throng of media from around the world, six crewmembers exited from their Mars simulation habitat on slopes of Mauna Loa on the Big...
View ArticleNew Deep-Reef Butterflyfish Species Discovered in Papahānaumokuākea
Scientists from Bishop Museum and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National...
View ArticleResearch Forecasts Ocean Crisis (w/ video)
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s 2016 announcement to quadruple the size of the Papāhanaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo...
View ArticleGlobal Climate Change Threatens Papahānaumokuākea
Despite its remote location in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument faces a looming threat of global climate change that will affect its land and marine...
View ArticleNation’s 1st Wave-Produced Power Goes Online in Hawaiʻi (w/ video)
The Hawaiʻi Wave Energy Test Site, the United States’ first grid-connected test site of this kind, was completed by the U.S. Navy in mid-2015. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Natural Energy...
View ArticleClimate Swings May Have Pushed Early Human Migration Out of Africa (w/ video)
A small group of Homo sapiens left Africa around 100,000 years ago in a series of astronomically paced slow migration waves and arrived for the first time in southern Europe around 80,000-90,000 years...
View ArticleUH, CI Dive on Unexplored Seamounts near Hawaiʻi (w/ videos)
The Pacific Ocean has by far the largest number of seamounts, distinct features of volcanic origin that rise off the seafloor but do not break the surface, of any ocean on the planet, according to a...
View ArticleUH Finds Potential Signature of Cognitive Function in People Living with HIV
University of Hawaiʻi researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have a range of impairments in...
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