A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

A new study explores how nature-based virtual reality can improve the wellbeing of children undergoing intensive treatments.

For University of Minnesota Extension educator Ellen Wolter, the divide between rural and urban communities is more imagined ...

Hugo is, in the words of his owner Wendy Legge, a “gentle giant” — a 65-pound mixed-breed dog who defers even to the family’s two cats, Hudson and Rosie. He has spent 13 years with the Legge family in ...

Perla Escobar-Faerber realized she wanted to know more about language and bilingualism while serving as a service missionary at age 19. Having grown up in a bilingual household, she had questions ...

The revolution of planet Earth around the sun — and Minnesota’s one and only land-grant university with it — wouldn’t be complete without a look back at what we humans got up to during our 365 (and ...

Animals help disperse seeds and spores for many plant and fungal species. This typically happens when animals eat the fruiting bodies of plants and fungi and pass seeds and spores through their ...

In early November, during National Gar Week, students from the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology (FWCB) in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences had ...

Sometimes the most profound shifts in teaching and research happen far from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. For College of Education and Human Development faculty participating in the ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been mass produced for decades in consumer products like frying pans, water-resistant clothing, food packaging and cosmetics. They have also been used ...