On August 3, a gunman shot and killed 22 people and injured 24 others at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas. When 9-year-old Eduardo’s mother Ana Vitela Najero became paralyzed with fear, he took action, grabbing his mother’s arm and explaining that they needed to get away.

Individual cells in a population often show dramatically different responses to stress or other environmental challenges, even if the cells are all genetically identical.

Researchers tracking the economic security of America’s older adults have found that half who live alone and nearly a quarter of those living in two-person households where both are age 65 or older are unable to afford basic necessities without extra assistance.

The best microscopes in the world often fail to produce crisp images of proteins. This is a frustration to the scientists who rely on them and a major roadblock to global efforts to design new drugs.

Now, volunteers playing the online puzzle game Foldit have shown that they can use fuzzy cryo-electron microscopy datasets to create accurate three-dimensional models of proteins. This work appears this week in the journal PloS Biology.

The black holes of Einstein’s theory of relativity can be described by three parameters: their mass, spin angular momentum, and electric charge. Since two extreme black holes that share these parameters cannot be distinguished, regardless of how they were made, black holes are said to “have no hair”: they have no additional attributes that can be used to tell them apart. 

BayCoast Bank has pledged a $150,000 grant over a three-year period to the Blue Economy Initiative, a collaborative effort between the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the SouthCoast Development Partnership (SCDP) to develop a “blue economy corridor” in Southeastern Massachusetts.

In one room, keynote speaker Gulden Camci-Unal, an assistant professor of chemical engineering, shared her research on how powdered eggshells could be a secret ingredient to healing broken bones.

Oprah Winfrey made quite a splash when she visited campus last year and helped the university raise more than $3 million for student scholarships – including a surprise $1.5 million matching gift of her own.

As with any splash, Winfrey’s generosity created a ripple effect that has already grown from six to 60 students – and will continue on at the university for years to come.

UMass Lowell has opened a new center for cybersecurity education, research and workforce development called the Cyber Range that will help students prepare for careers in the high-demand field. 

Edwin Boudreaux, PhD, has been working to implement screening for suicide in emergency rooms for more than a decade and has published numerous studies that show a large population of patients can be reached through such a process, according to a Nov. 8 article in the Washington Post about his research.