College of Science News

All eyes were on southeast Florida’s St. Lucie Estuary in 2016 as it received national attention due to beach closures on the Fourth of July weekend from the massive amounts of toxic green slime that covered parts of the...

“[H]ammerhead eyes, though far apart, have the greatest overlap in their fields of view.

One in 5 children in the U.S. live in households in which a language other than English is spoken, and 79 percent of school-age language minority children in the U.S are Spanish-speaking. Children from these homes are at...

If trees are budding earlier, this could have a larger effect on the surrounding ecosystem.

A multi-million dollar state of the art Waste to Energy plant is bringing Palm Beach County lots of garbage and lots of money.

Florida Atlantic University recently received a $1 million gift from Dr. Walter and Lalita Janke to establish the Walter and Lalita Janke Innovations in Sustainability Science Research Fund, which will support faculty research...

Cyber attacks or criminal attacks and security breaches put millions of people across the world at risk for having their sensitive information in the wrong hands," said Daniel Flynn, vice president for research at FAU.

Dr. Xavier Comas’ graduate students, William Wright and Matt McClellan from the Environmental Geophysics Lab in the Department of Geosciences at Florida Atlantic University are measuring methane and carbon dioxide gas...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water… Tens of thousands of blacktip sharks have been spotted in South Florida’s water as they search for warmer waters and food.

The National Save the Sea Turtle Foundation recently funded renovations in the FAU Research Laboratory at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.