Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered a planet orbiting one of the brightest young stars known,…
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30K lives could be saved by reducing air pollution levels below current standard
Research findings from the Center for Air Quality, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES) at Carnegie Mellon…
Smaller class size means more success for women in STEM
A new study demonstrates that increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation…
Feeling hot? It can make you a more competitive buyer, study reveals
Can the temperature of a room affect a buyer’s eagerness to buy an item—or haggle for…
Europe heat wave breaks Belgian record, mercury to rise more
Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of…
Seeing clearly: Revised computer code accurately models an instability in fusion plasmas
Subatomic particles zip around ring-shaped fusion machines known as tokamaks and sometimes merge, releasing large amounts…
Clues on how soils may respond to climate change found
Rock core samples from a period of warming millions of years ago indicate soils contributed to…
Arizona wildfire soaked by rain, blaze nears Idaho nuke site
Rain falling Wednesday in a forested Arizona city helped crews battle a wildfire that has raged…
Forecasting US economic and demographic shifts at higher resolution
A new approach to predicting changes in population and income at the level of individual U.S.…
Top universities fail to achieve many measures of institutionalized diversity outreach
Top universities around the world appear still to be in the very early stages of institutionalizing…