Could rapid and widespread depletion of oxygen in the global oceans trigger a mass extinction event?
Late in the prehistoric Silurian Period, around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event wiped 23 percent of all marine animals from the face of the planet. For years, scie... Read more
A new multi-institution study spearheaded by researchers at Florida State University and the University of California, Los Angeles suggests a tiny protein could play a major role in combatin... Read more
Can you spot a liar? It’s tricky enough in face-to-face conversations that offer facial expressions, gestures and tone of voice because those physical cues add context. Spotting a liar gets... Read more
New research from a team of Florida State University scientists and their collaborators is helping to explain the link between a changing global climate and a dramatic decline in bumble bee... Read more
Discovery shows existing drugs can treat virus A team of researchers from Florida State University, Johns Hopkins University and the National Institutes of Health has found existing drug com... Read more
Florida State University researchers have discovered a way to safely activate red phosphorus, an element that will be critical in the creation of new electronics and the materials of the fut... Read more
They’re one step closer. In a new paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Kenneth Hanson and his team have introduced a new stra... Read more
A team of Florida State University materials researchers has developed a new type of light-emitting diode, or LED, using an organic-inorganic hybrid that could lead to cheaper, brighter and... Read more
A Florida State University researcher has discovered an artificial material that mimics photosynthesis and potentially creates a sustainable energy source. In The Journal of Physical Chemist... Read more
Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel. The element is called californium —... Read more
“You don’t realize how interdependent species are until it all unravels” Florida State University researchers have spearheaded a major review of fisheries data that examines the domino effec... Read more
The experiment may result in practical applications in electrical conductivity and more. Eden Steven, a physicist at Florida State University’s MagLab facility, discovered that simple method... Read more
Florida State University inks deal to license new supercapacitor invention The ink is still drying on an agreement between Florida State University and Tallahassee-based General Capacitor LL... Read more