Learn the story of how, more than 100 years ago, Chicagoans pulled off one of the most audacious engineering feats in U.S. history.

We study the mechanisms of cross-kingdom microbial competition and how it influences microbial evolution and interaction with hosts

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Abstract. Most biologically relevant traits are quantitative, controlled by multiple genes, and can be influenced by the environment. The multiple genes, c

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

A crowdsourced flower-color observation quiz.

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...

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