Plants are critical in supporting life on Earth, and with help from an experiment that flew onboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission, they also could transform living in space.

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CINCINNATI, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The pillars of academe are crumbling -- that seems to be the message in the media of late. Costs are out of control, some say rising faster than the value of an education.

June 1-7 is CPR/AED Awareness Week OXFORD, Ohio, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of Miami University students has developed an iPhone application focused on heart health awareness that also integrates GPS and augmented reality, allowing users to locate Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs).

OXFORD, Ohio, May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A study by scientists and colleagues of Miami University's Global Change Limnology Laboratory has demonstrated that maintaining high ultraviolet (UV) transparency in Lake Tahoe may be the key to reducing invasion of warm-water fish, such as bluegill, that threaten the native fish species in the lake.