Life at OSU

A new study has found that both the population and habitat of Pacific lamprey - an ecologically and culturally important species - are declining in western Oregon.

OSU researchers have discovered an amber fossil of the oldest known grass specimen, and it was tipped with the hallucinogenic fungus ergot.

Oregon in 2014 logged its second hottest year since records were kept beginning in 1895, while the global temperature was the hottest on record.

Tropical herbivorous fish are expanding their range into temperate waters and a new international study documents the dramatic impact of the intrusion in the Mediterranean Sea.

A new study of Pacific oyster and Mediterranean mussel larvae found that the earliest larval stages are directly sensitive to saturation state, not carbon dioxide (CO₂) or pH.

A big data competition with prizes totalling $175,000 has been launched to solve a scientific challenge.

A new study confirms that atmospheric levels of nitrous oxide rose significantly as the Earth came out of the last ice age.

Researchers have developed a method to track through the human body the movement of carcinogens known as PAHs as they are biologically processed and eliminated.

Tsunami debris is still arriving from Japan, nearly four years after the big earthquake, and each arriving item carries the risk of introducing non-native species to the Northwest.

A new study published this week in Science links increases in greenhouse gases during a warming climate after the last ice age to increases in African rainfall.