A new study explores how nature-based virtual reality can improve the wellbeing of children undergoing intensive treatments.

For University of Minnesota Extension educator Ellen Wolter, the divide between rural and urban communities is more imagined ...

Hugo is, in the words of his owner Wendy Legge, a “gentle giant” — a 65-pound mixed-breed dog who defers even to the family’s two cats, Hudson and Rosie. He has spent 13 years with the Legge family in ...

Perla Escobar-Faerber realized she wanted to know more about language and bilingualism while serving as a service missionary at age 19. Having grown up in a bilingual household, she had questions ...

As we set New Year's resolutions, Americans may be looking back fondly on less divisive times, and wondering how to reconnect with friends or family who have grown distant due to political ...

As a top U.S. public research university, University of Minnesota researchers regularly get up to extraordinary things. That includes playing a vital role in Minnesota's healthcare ecosystem by ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Laboratory carefully measured the maximum height, total energy, and maximum power of the waves from wakes produced by four recreational ...

A recent study found some of the oldest animals in the world living in a place you wouldn’t expect: fishes in the Arizona desert. Researchers found the second genus of animal ever for which three or ...

University of Minnesota alumnus Norman Borlaug left an indelible mark on the world. The late agronomist’s work in developing new varieties of wheat starting in the 1940s spawned the “Green Revolution, ...

A study from the University of Minnesota, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that conscientiousness — a family of personality traits that combines ...

Only 190 meteor impact sites have been confirmed worldwide, but a recent discovery by U of M researchers could soon add an ancient crater in Minnesota to that list. “I’ve been mapping and studying the ...