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Other Jun 13, 2024

Paris 2024 Olympics to debut high-level breakdancing—and physics in action

Two athletes square off for an intense dance battle. The DJ starts spinning tunes, and the athletes begin twisting, spinning and seemingly defying gravity, respectfully watching each other and taking turns showing off their ...

Environment Jun 13, 2024

Grand jury report faults San Francisco for inadequate climate threat planning

As climate change unleashes ever-more powerful storms, worsening floods and rising sea levels, San Francisco remains woefully unprepared for inundation, a civil grand jury determined in a report.

Environment Jun 12, 2024

From swamp to sponge: Berlin harnesses rain in climate shift

In two years' time, a massive hole in the heart of Berlin will become the German capital's biggest reservoir, capturing an increasingly precious resource—water.

Planetary Sciences Jun 11, 2024

Water frost on Mars: On the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape

The formation of water frost is common on Earth, especially in winter when atmospheric water vapor condenses and freezes on the surface. On Mars, the atmosphere is about 100 times less dense than on Earth, but it too contains ...

Social Sciences Jun 11, 2024

As Paris preps for Olympics, survey finds Coloradans still feel ambivalent about hosting

More than five decades after Denver said "thanks, but no thanks" to hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics, large numbers of Coloradans still feel ambivalent about going for gold.

Planetary Sciences Jun 10, 2024

First detection of frost on the solar system's tallest volcanoes on Mars

For the first time, water frost has been detected on the colossal volcanoes on Mars, which are the largest mountains in the solar system. The international team led by the University of Bern used high-resolution color images ...

Earth Sciences Jun 7, 2024

Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of Earth's top hazards, comes into sharper focus

Off the coasts of southern British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and northern California lies a 600 mile-long strip where the Pacific Ocean floor is slowly diving eastward under North America. This area, called the Cascadia ...

Social Sciences Jun 6, 2024

Will the 2024 Olympic Games become the playing field for social justice protests?

Yannick Kluch, a professor of recreation, sport and tourism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studies sport as a platform for promoting social justice. Kluch has worked with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, ...

Social Sciences Jun 4, 2024

Who gets to decide what counts as 'disorder'?

As a scholar of urban governance and data policy, I viewed the responses to protests on U.S. campuses as about more than threats to academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Mathematics May 31, 2024

How science, math, and tech can propel swimmers to new heights

One hundred years ago, in the 1924 Paris Olympics, American Johnny Weissmuller won the men's 100m freestyle with a time of 59 seconds. Nearly 100 years later, in the most recent Olympics, the delayed 2020 Games in Tokyo, ...

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