OSU civil engineering professor David Hill carries a snow coring device uphill near Thompson Pass, Alaska. Credit: Ryan Crumley. A heavy snowpack is fun for skiers and sledders, and it also acts like an open-air storage tank that melts away to provide water for drinking, irrigation and other purposes during dry months. But exactly how … Read more
Debris scatters the ground near damaged homes following a severe storm Friday, March 15, 2024, in Lakeview, Ohio. Credit: AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel This winter’s record warmth provided the key ingredient for a Midwest outbreak of deadly tornadoes and damaging gorilla hail that hit parts of the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday, tornado experts said. At … Read more
The reserve of nearly 200,000 square kilometers (some 77,000 square miles), is one of the world’s largest and most biodiverse, with many of its species found nowhere else. Industrial fishing boats hover menacingly on the edges of Ecuador’s Galapagos Marine Reserve, where schools of multicolored fish and hammerhead sharks frolic in the protected Pacific waters. … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Orbiting 400 kilometers above Earth’s surface, the astronauts on the International Space Station live a pretty normal social life, if not for one thing: they happily wear their unwashed clothes for days and weeks at a time. They can’t do their laundry just yet because water is scarce up there. But … Read more
More than 10 million tons of food is wasted in the UK each year. Leftovers perish in their plastic Tupperware tombs, supermarket bins heave with damaged but perfectly edible produce, and fields are littered with spoiled harvests. Preventing good food from ending up in the bin is an important part of the global fight against … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Isolated. Abused. Overworked. These are the themes that emerged when I invited nine Black women to chronicle their professional experiences and relationships with colleagues as they earned their Ph.D.s at a public university in the Midwest. I featured their writings in to get my Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction. The women … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain If you’re in your 20s and 30s, you probably watch pornography. Millennials and gen Z are watching more pornography than any other age group and are also more likely than any other demographic to experiment with AI pornography. As technology advances, AI-generated tools and techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and accessible. … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dusty barns, gleaming stables and damp basements. These are all places where you might find a house mouse—or a member of my research team. I’m an evolutionary biologist, and my lab at Drexel University studies wild house mice. With help from Philly residents, we are collecting mice from high-rises and row … Read more
Credit: BFA / Warner Bros Frank Herbert’s Dune is epic sci-fi storytelling with an environmental message at its heart. The novels and movies are set on the desert planet of Arrakis, which various characters dream of transforming into a greener world—much like some envision for Mars today. We investigated Arrakis using a climate model, a … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The French parliament recently voted in favor of enshrining the right to abortion into the country’s constitution. While crowds celebrated outside, the slogan “my body my choice” was projected onto the Eiffel Tower in giant letters. Although concerns about barriers and access still remain, women in France are now guaranteed the … Read more
