College of Science News

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.

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...

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...