During heat waves, people tend to crank up their home’s air conditioning not only because it got hotter outside, but also because it feels too humid.

To more accurately predict how climate change will affect home electricity use during the summer, researchers have developed a model that takes into consideration how people respond to heat stress.

While restaurants, gyms, schools, and other buildings are closed indefinitely to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the water left sitting in pipes could change in quality.

While searching for a method to increase phenylalanine production in plants, Natalia Dudareva and Joseph Lynch discovered a link between the compound and the plant hormone auxin.

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Cybersecurity is a daily concern for business owners of every size – but the wholesale shift to working from home because of the coronavirus will test how secure your company is as well as the behavior of your newly remote employees, experts say.

Maintaining a healthy farm workforce is more important than ever to limit the spread of COVID-19 and to ensure a successful harvest.

A new tool for medical professionals may help shed more light on tumors in the body and how the brain operates. Purdue University researchers created technology that uses optical imaging to better help surgeons map out tumors in the body and help them understand how certain diseases affect activity in the brain.

Purdue physics professor Laura Pyrak-Nolte and her lab team works with Purdue’s Rock Physics Research Group to better understand how and where fractures form.

Large percentages of lung cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer can be prevented or treated if caught early. Purdue University scientists have created a new therapy option that may help halt tumor growth in certain cancers such as those.

Purdue University researchers have developed a new tool to help first responders and disaster relief organizations better provide assistance to developing countries. The Purdue team created a cloud-based supply chain management system for emergency response to track inventory and distribution in countries struck by disasters.

Purdue University researchers currently have more than 20 research projects underway to understand, prevent, treat, and overcome the COVID-19 pandemic.

Youmi Oh (left) and Qianlai Zhuang’s research has revised estimates of net methane emissions from the Arctic. Their modeling considers not only methane emitted by wetland methanogens, but also methane consumed by upland methanotrophs and the effects of these microbes in a warmer climate.