Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael Raupp and Paula Shrewsbury…
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Professor overcomes loss to craft COVID-19 student brochures
When the coronavirus pandemic struck New York City, LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes assigned students…
Ancient Mesopotamian marshes threatened by Iraqi sewage, pollutants
In southern Iraq, putrid water gushes out of waste pipes into marshes reputed to be home…
Without commuter traffic, pandemic-era drivers are speeding up, increasing noise pollution
As pandemic lockdowns went into effect in March 2020 and millions of Americans began working from…
Researchers analyze the host origins of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses
Coronavirus (CoVs) infection in animals and humans is not new. The earliest papers in the scientific…
Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations
A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to…
When algorithms go bad: How consumers respond
Researchers from University of Texas-Austin and Copenhagen Business School published a new paper in the Journal…
Study demonstrates swarm of photons that somersault in lockstep
Spinning or rotating objects are commonplace, from toy tops, fidget spinners, and figure skaters to water…
Long-term monitoring shows successful restoration of mining-polluted streams
Many miles of streams and rivers in the United States and elsewhere are polluted by toxic…
Light pollution at night affects the calls of migratory birds
When investigators in the UK recorded the calls of migratory birds called thrushes at night, they…