The Army’s emphasis on training recruits as “soldier-athletes” inspired Col. Terrence McKenrick, commander of the 192d Infantry Brigade at Fort Benning, Ga., to reach out to Auburn kinesiologist JoEllen Sefton. Each year, an estimated 14,000 soldiers cycle through nine weeks of basic combat training or fourteen weeks of infantry training. And six days a week, [...]

With a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Auburn researcher Jennifer Kerpelman’s created an innovative series of online learning modules that help teens learn successful coping skills.

Most people encounter a chicken on the dinner table, and then only parts of it. Professors in Auburn’s poultry science department want to be knowledgeable about everything chicken, including the workings of the reproductive tract. After all: no guts, no glory. So they created “virtual” chicken with the Media Production Group to better understand and illustrate what’s going on inside a chicken’s egg-making factory.

So children need more sleep. You probably know that. But what Auburn researcher Mona El-Sheikh wants you to know is that even minor improvements can have major effects on your child’s future happiness, success in school, and well…everything.

Have you ever been sick, and it took the doctor a few tries to correctly diagnose you? Or had to try a few different treatments before finding one that worked? Ya-xiong Tao wants to change all that with “personalized medicine”.

Uddin and Hames uncover 320 million year old secrets and discover that the Appalachians once dwarfed the Himalayas.

…like the famed iceberg that slew the Titanic, the majority of the danger from this plant lies underground. It’s got an incredibly dense root system—as much as 80% of the mass of the plant—and it sends out specialized root systems, called rhizomes, to choke the life out of everything around it for meters.

Small microparticles trapped in plasmas have strange and wonderful properties because sometimes they behave like fluids and sometimes like gases. On small scales, these particles can be used to improve the properties of things like solar panels. On very large scales, these particles give you the spectacular patterns in Saturn’s rings.