Kitta Mac Pherson

El Niño, a recurring warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean, is strengthening and expected to persist into early 2027 – raising questions about what it could mean for winter temperatures, snowfall and storms in New Jersey and throughout the United States.

Rutgers and its partners aim to transform flood-prone properties into functional natural landscapes to protect communities and strengthen coastal ecosystems A $4.2 million award to Rutgers University will help transform former home sites along the…

A Rutgers astrophysicist and colleagues investigate how powerful winds driven by stars shape the galaxies around themScientists examining data collected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found that dozens of small galaxies contain far less oxygen…

At two Rutgers research centers, the familiar inspires questions about growing food and making better use of what remainsIt was October, but inside a greenhouse at Rutgers’ research farm in Cream Ridge, N.J., strawberry plants were still flowering…

Scientists at Rutgers and in Estonia have used invisible light to look into tiny magnetic whirlpools, called vortices, inside a superconductor, revealing details that could help researchers develop better materials for carrying electricity.

A group of 175 scientists co-led by a Rutgers University professor have developed a research framework identifying gaps in the evidence needed to assess coastal protection, food production and overlapping climate hazards such as extreme heat and power outages.

The first lesson at Cape Shore Laboratory began with the road in.

Rutgers physicist Eva Andrei was looking for something else when she discovered a new way to change how materials conduct electricity.

Researchers from Rutgers, IBM and collaborating institutions have shown that a quantum computer can check what is happening inside it and respond while it is running, repeatedly resetting parts of the system to bring chaotic behavior under control.

Some of the giant marine reptiles that ruled the seas during the age of dinosaurs were better built for surprise attacks, while their relatives were better suited to chasing prey through open water, according to a Rutgers-led study.

For Dave Bushek, the obstacle to bringing students to Rutgers’ field stations across New Jersey was getting them there.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions now may limit how much ice Antarctica loses this century and reduce the rise in seas facing coastal communities, according to findings from a new study.

A microscopic worm that has no kidneys is helping Rutgers scientists understand a genetic change suspected of causing a serious inherited kidney disease.

To many homebuyers, a pond is a picturesque asset. But if it is held back by a dam, the property may also carry legal and financial responsibilities that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

When public health researchers want to know whether diseases such as COVID-19 or polio are circulating in a community, they can look for genetic evidence in wastewater.

Rutgers astronomers help identify 10 developing galaxy clusters from about 12 billion years ago Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, scientists have peered nearly 12 billion years into the past and found one of the largest cosmic…

A Rutgers-led international collaboration has identified 36 genes that substantially raise the risk for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and chronic tic disorders – providing what two researchers said is the most detailed biological understanding

NASA has successfully launched a space telescope designed not only to look deeply into the universe, but to survey it on a scale never before possible.

NASA has released a report recommending an initial health standard for the Martian dust that astronauts could inhale during future missions.

Storm conditions capable of causing major coastal erosion at New Jersey’s North Beach on Sandy Hook are occurring about twice as often as they did in 1979, according to Rutgers researchers. The finding offers new evidence of increasing frequency of