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Ecology Mar 7, 2024

Restoring mining landscapes in the High Arctic

NINA researchers have played a central role in restoring old mining landscapes in Svalbard, Norway. As of 2024, the restoration is complete.

General Physics Feb 1, 2024

Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab's DUNE experiment completed

Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are ...

Environment Dec 7, 2023

'Forever chemicals' found in freshwater fish, yet most states don't warn residents

Bill Eisenman has always fished. "Growing up, we ate whatever we caught—catfish, carp, freshwater drum," he said. "That was the only real source of fish in our diet as a family, and we ate a lot of it."

General Physics Mar 20, 2023

Laboratory-developed high explosives mitigate risk of accidental detonation

In an effort to mitigate accidental detonations of stored explosives, a multidisciplinary team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists developed a way to create "switchable" high explosives that won't detonate unless ...

Earth Sciences Feb 15, 2023

Earthquake in Turkey exposes gap between seismic knowledge and action, but it is possible to prepare

Two days after a devastating earthquake struck, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited one of the worst affected areas and declared that it was "not possible to be prepared for such a disaster."

Education Dec 22, 2022

Universities, rich in data, struggle to capture its value, study finds

Universities are literally awash in data. From administrative data offering information about students, faculty and staff, to research data on professors' scholarly activities and even telemetric signals—the functional ...

Social Sciences Nov 18, 2022

How signing a waiver in human rights cases favors the powerful

One of the main advantages of signing a waiver is the finality that it brings to what could potentially be protracted legal proceedings.

Environment Aug 4, 2022

'Unprecedented' fire rips through munitions site in Berlin forest

An "unprecedented" fire broke out Thursday around a German police munitions storage site in a popular forest in western Berlin, sending plumes of smoke into the skies and setting off a series of explosions.

Economics & Business Aug 4, 2022

Fighting for worker rights takes psychological toll

Bottom-up workplace law enforcement—which occurs when an individual worker files a claim against their employer—fails to protect the workers who are the most vulnerable to workplace rights violations. According to new ...

Environment Aug 3, 2022

Sinkhole larger than tennis court has Chile perplexed

Experts in Chile on Tuesday were investigating the appearance of an enormous sinkhole, bigger than a tennis court, that has appeared near a copper mine in the Atacama desert.

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