A helicopter and paintball gun: New tools in the battle to remove invasive species
UH Mānoa's James Leary invented a way to adapt pneumatic paintball guns to shoot small gelatin capsules filled with herbicide to control invasive plants and trees.
UH Mānoa receives top ranking for earth and environmental science
UH Mānoa ranked 15th in the world for earth and environmental science, according to this year’s Nature Index
UH ranked among top universities for excellence in scientific publications
UH has been ranked among the top world universities for its scientific publications by National Taiwan University.
UH working to bring wireless communication to remote areas
A $500,000 grant to the Hawaiʻi Center for Advanced Communications will help bring broadband wireless service to remote areas in Hawaiʻi.
New cell sorting method developed by UH Mānoa mechanical engineer
UH Mānoa College of Engineering’s Yi Zuo develops new method for sorting cells capable of separating 10 billion bacterial cells in 30 minutes.
The ocean’s most abundant organisms have clear daily cycles
Scientists discover that communities of ocean microbes have their own daily cycles, results published in Science.
New understanding of ocean passageway could aid climate change forecasts
The passageway that links the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean is acting differently because of climate change, and now its new behavior could, in turn, affect climate in both ocean basins in new ways.
UH partners on project to improve nuclear arms control technology
Milton Garces, of Hawaiʻi Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, will lead infrasound portion of program focused on improving the nation’s nuclear arms control technology.
Researchers find corn yields more sensitive to drought, climate change
The study, co-authored by UH Mānoa Associate Professor Michael Roberts, was published in May in the journal Science.
Scientists chart seafloor of one of Earth’s largest marine protected areas
UH Mānoa scientist charts seafloor of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument—the largest protected area in the U.S.
