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Earth Sciences Apr 12, 2023

Critical observations reveal sinking coasts

It's been said that a rug can really tie a room together. In a similar fashion, Manoochehr Shirzaei and his research team are hoping that weaving together millions of data points into terrain-covering, digital maps can help ...

Economics & Business Apr 10, 2023

Home-based workers became younger, more diverse in pandemic

People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Economics & Business Apr 6, 2023

Researchers create real estate market assessment tool

A group of UBC Okanagan researchers is trying to take the mathematical mystery out of what could be a person's biggest investment—buying a home.

Ecology Mar 31, 2023

Can cities make room for woodpeckers?

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America's largest woodpecker.

Social Sciences Mar 28, 2023

How is AI changing the way we write and create?

Since late last year, artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT have become a growing topic of conversation on college campuses, with students using the technology for everything from class assignments to essays.

Plants & Animals Mar 25, 2023

Antarctic ice age survival story: Life seeking ice-free refuges imitates art in Ice Age, the movie

Antarctica is an icy place today, but the ice extended even further during past ice ages. The question of how and where life survived on land in the icy continent, through the ages, has long puzzled biologists.

Plants & Animals Mar 23, 2023

How Antarctica's tiny non-ice-dwelling species survived the ice age

New research published in Biology Letters on March 22 shows how tiny Antarctic life, which have lived on the continent since it was part of a forested Gondwana, have been able to survive as ice sheets have expanded and contracted ...

Social Sciences Mar 20, 2023

Discriminatory housing policies created an unequal park system in Minneapolis, new research shows

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota sheds light on the origins of racial disparities in the Minneapolis park system and their long-lasting consequences for environmental justice in the city.

Archaeology Mar 20, 2023

Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE

Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates.

Economics & Business Mar 17, 2023

Remote sensing is reshaping how real estate economics is understood

When professor Diana Mok was completing her Ph.D., she had a chance encounter with a roommate that has since inspired novel research into housing more than 20 years later.

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