JABSOM’s Youping Deng and his team are doing promising work in the development of a new diagnostic tool to improve the early detection of breast cancer.
Climate researchers, including those at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, have quantified for the first time the effect of Antarctic iceberg calving.
Sponges play an important role in the nutrient dynamics of coral reefs and could possibly rise to dominate coral reefs as corals decline due to human activity and climate change.
At 5,150 meters (approximately 3.2 miles) below sea level, the deepest controlled-source electromagnetic survey of the sea floor happened above an oceanic trench in the Aleutian-Alaska Subduction Zone.
Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Earth by this asteroid for the next century.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to an IfA scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Maunakea.