Most satellites are placed in orbit on 5-to-10-year missions to accomplish many tasks. One of the many functions of the satellites carrying a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is to monitor water reservoirs ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2024
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Chimpanzees in seminal early 20th century psychology research showing their problem-solving capabilities are being honored in a research project capturing their full and sometimes tragic life stories.
Plants & Animals
Apr 4, 2023
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Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to tolerate and what sacrifices to ask your citizens to bear.
Social Sciences
Mar 20, 2023
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Two Scottish researchers are trying to piece together part of Scotland's religious past by combining hi-tech science with historical knowledge.
Archaeology
Feb 27, 2023
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A new interactive Antarctic map promises to assist voyage planning and enhance climate research in the sea-ice zone, by bringing together Southern Ocean data from the past four decades.
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2023
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Measuring marine biodiversity with "environmental DNA"—an application of gene sequencing to environmental biology—should permit rapid assessment of changes in marine life. That makes environmental DNA (eDNA) a critical ...
Ecology
Nov 16, 2022
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By combining written texts, folklore, and astronomical calculations, a team of researchers at Nagoya University, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and Otaru University of Commerce identified, examined, and analyzed ...
Astronomy
Nov 8, 2022
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The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rain forest, famous for its rich biodiversity and importance in the world's oxygen and carbon cycles. It also has an outsized influence on water cycles in South America and beyond. ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2022
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The ship that sent an iceberg warning to the RMS Titanic before the ocean-liner sank has been identified lying in the Irish Sea.
Archaeology
Sep 27, 2022
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A report by the Steering Committee on Human Remains in University Museum Collections was released by President Larry Bacow on Thursday in a message to the University community.
Archaeology
Sep 16, 2022
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