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- For one teaching assistant professor of Classics, learning Latin 鈥渋s like lifting weights for your brain鈥 and a field people love.
- Researchers analyzed satellite data and models to find dam failures鈥攏ot rainfall鈥攍ed to increased flood damage in Derna, Libya, in 2023.
- Mahmoud Hussein is leading a $7.5 million research grant that is 鈥減robably the most radical conceptual advancement for airplanes since the replacement of propellers with jets.鈥
- A new study from Chloe Brashear, Tyler Jones and others suggests abrupt warming events were preceded by periods of unusually stable temperatures during the last ice age. The researchers point toward shifting sea ice as a potential driver of the phenomenon.
- A new kind of press-on nails comes in all shapes and colors鈥攁nd when you鈥檙e done with them, you can melt them down and reuse the materials to make your next look.
- In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C鈥攁 鈥渟tellar nursery鈥 where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.
- Inhaling dust particles from the Red Planet over long periods of time could put humans at risk of developing respiratory issues, thyroid disease and other health problems.
- As humans spend longer and longer in space, the mental health of astronauts will become increasingly important, says aerospace engineer Katya Arquilla. Her research could help people in orbit and on the ground.
- Assistant Professor Longji Cui and his team have developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way that literally teases the basic law of thermal physics.
- Cultural biases, network segregation and subtle mentorship dynamics prevent women from receiving the support they need in entrepreneurship, a new study finds.