NASA’s Webb makes first detection of heavy element from star merger
The collaboration of many telescopes on the ground and in space allowed scientists to piece together a wealth of information as the burst was first detected.
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Diversifying STEM Education Research
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NSF has awarded $1.25 million for a program that will recruit and train postdoctoral scholars to explore marginalization in STEM education from a queer perspective, the first-of-its-kind in the world.
Read More‘Roving sentinels’ discover new air pollution sources
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Google Street View cars sampled air quality at a scale fine enough to capture variations within neighborhoods. A new atmospheric modeling method can identify pollution emission sources in many cities.
Read MoreLumen Bioscience wins historic $1.5M Wilkes Center Climate Prize
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The Seattle-based biotech company beat 77 international teams with their proposal to drastically reduce methane emissions from dairy and beef cattle using a patented mixture of enzyme proteins.
Read MoreMy adventures in the ribosome
Nobel Laureate Venkatraman “Venki” Ramakrishnan returns to the U to share his role in the race to uncover the ribosome structure at the Frontiers of Science lecture series on Sept. 26.
Read MoreFinalists vie for historic $1.5M Wilkes Climate Prize
A bean to revolutionize agriculture? Pepto for cows? Ocean waves on the power grid? Smart window coating? Trees that save farmers and the rainforest? Winner announced on Sept. 22.
Read MoreAncient volcanism drove global warming that marked the end of the Paleocene
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New study shows hydrothermal vents released vast amounts of methane 56 million years, helping disrupt the climate and spur an evolutionary burst that led to the rise of mammals.
Read MoreHow climate change puts property values at risk in forested areas
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Researchers quantified the value of U.S. property exposed to increased wildfire and tree mortality associated with climate stresses and beetle infestation.
Read MoreUsing math to unravel shared drug resistance in cancer cells
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A new study produced the surprising result that therapy resistance in breast cancer cells can be shared with less resistant cells, possibly illuminating new ways to improve cancer treatments.
Read MoreMaking machine learning accessible to all
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UteAnalytics allows a client to clean their data and conduct exploratory data analysis in various ways.
Read MoreGravitational waves thrum through the cosmos
Tanmoy Laskar talks with @theU about an exciting announcement—gravitational waves are thrumming throughout the universe, distorting the fabric of space and time.
Read MoreWhat can earthquake ‘swarms’ tell us about seismicity in the West?
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U seismologists analyze decades of seismic data to discern the significance of the swarms in a geothermal hotspot and for recent—geologically speaking—volcanism.
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