Louisiana has never been known for earthquakes. Most in the United States occur along fault lines on the West Coast or on the islands of Hawaii. But since December 2025, a string of earthquakes has rocked northern...

What happens when a leading infectious disease researcher decides to become a businessman? For Chad Roy, a professor at Tulane University School of Medicine and associate dean of research, the result was...

Over $3 billion is granted annually to researchers studying Alzheimer's disease, making it one of the most funded disease research areas in the United States. By 2050, this number is predicted to exceed...

In the age of big data for biomedicine, images and other digital representations of the body are more available than ever before. Yu-Ping Wang, professor of biomedical engineering at Tulane University,...

Jeffrey Tasker, a neuroscience professor at Tulane University, studies the neurological circuits of the amygdala, the emotion-processing center for fear and trauma.  Tasker has been a professor...

A tiny tick, the size of a poppy seed, latches onto the skin around your ankles after your hike. You rip it off and carry on. Unbeknownst to you, bacterial spirochetes enter your bloodstream and begin...

In the labyrinth of the human brain, the mechanisms governing fear responses hold profound implications for understanding mental health disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety.   Jonathan...

Hawaii, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Palau: Thomas DeCarlo has dived into the oceans of all these places and beyond to follow his passion for coral reefs.   His journey in science started as...