College of Science News
January
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January 23, 2018
If everything goes as planned, a newly hatched sea turtle should be able to crawl from its nest to the ocean in a couple of minutes.
January
22
January 22, 2018
Alarming results from a recent gender ratio study revealed that 99 percent of young green turtles from Australia’s Northern Great Barrier Reef are female and that male sea turtles are disappearing.
January
11
January 11, 2018
Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to design, deploy and evaluate a first-of-its-kind software-defined...
January
9
January 09, 2018
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...
July
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July 31, 2017
“[H]ammerhead eyes, though far apart, have the greatest overlap in their fields of view.
July 19, 2017
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...
July
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July 05, 2016
If trees are budding earlier, this could have a larger effect on the surrounding ecosystem.
February
9
February 09, 2016
A multi-million dollar state of the art Waste to Energy plant is bringing Palm Beach County lots of garbage and lots of money.
February
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February 09, 2016
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...
February
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February 09, 2016
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.