College of Arts and Sciences

Study: Flirty comments from romantic partner may offer confidence boost for women

Published: September 19, 2019 | 2:00 pm

Drawing attention to a woman’s sexuality or physical appearance often has negative psychological consequences, but a new study from a […]

Published: September 18, 2019 | 9:30 am

A Florida State University researcher has won an early career award for her work examining the abundance of algal species […]

Published: September 11, 2019 | 2:25 pm

When Kīlauea Volcano erupted in 2018, it injected millions of cubic feet of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters off […]

Published: September 11, 2019 | 2:07 pm

A team of biologists has put on their detective hats to investigate the complicated bacterium behind citrus greening, a problematic […]

Published: September 10, 2019 | 1:31 pm

Golf ball-size clods of weathered crude oil originating from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe could remain buried in sandy Gulf […]

Published: September 5, 2019 | 9:11 am

An overwhelming scientific consensus affirms that for thousands of species across the globe, climate change is an immediate and existential […]

Published: September 4, 2019 | 2:49 pm

A group of Florida State University researchers has found that an individual’s pre-marital views about uncommitted sex may make it […]

Published: August 30, 2019 | 2:36 pm

Late in the prehistoric Silurian Period, around 420 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction event wiped 23 percent of […]

Published: August 28, 2019 | 11:22 am

In the farmlands of the Mississippi River Valley, earth is continuously cleared and leveled — a result of the region’s […]

Published: August 27, 2019 | 3:00 pm

An esteemed evolutionary biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences is joining the Florida State University faculty. Steven […]

Published: August 26, 2019 | 12:13 pm

A multiuniversity research team including a Florida State scientist has found that a lack of predators creates an environment that […]

Published: July 15, 2019 | 3:18 pm

On July 20, 1969, four days after lifting off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the American astronauts Neil Armstrong and […]