Research findings from the Center for Air Quality, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES) at Carnegie Mellon University show significant human health benefits when air quality is better than the current national ambient air ...
Environment
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A new study demonstrates that increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) classrooms, and offers insights on ways to change the ...
Education
Jul 24, 2019
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Can the temperature of a room affect a buyer's eagerness to buy an item—or haggle for a good deal? Yes, according to a new study from Florida International University's College of Business (FIU Business).
Economics & Business
Jul 24, 2019
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Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of the continent and is already breaking records.
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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Subatomic particles zip around ring-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks and sometimes merge, releasing large amounts of energy. But these particles—a soup of charged electrons and atomic nuclei, or ions, collectively ...
Plasma Physics
Jul 24, 2019
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Rock core samples from a period of warming millions of years ago indicate soils contributed to a rapid rise in atmospheric greenhouse gas and suggest modern climate models may overestimate Earth's ability to mitigate future ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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The largest wildfire at the nation's primary nuclear research facility in recent history had been burning close to buildings containing nuclear fuel and other radioactive material but a change in wind direction Wednesday ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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A new approach to predicting changes in population and income at the level of individual U.S. counties could improve predictions of the effects of climate change. David Wear and Jeffrey Prestemon of the USDA Forest Service ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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Top universities around the world appear still to be in the very early stages of institutionalizing diversity outreach, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE on July 24, by Mariana Buenestado-Fernández ...
Social Sciences
Jul 24, 2019
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About a dozen megadroughts struck the American Southwest during the 9th through the 15th centuries, but then they mysteriously ceased around the year 1600. What caused this clustering of megadroughts—that is, severe droughts ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2019
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