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An electric company treasure huntThe offices were frozen in time. A calendar from March 2020 highlighted St. Patrick’s Day. Balloons lay deflated in a cubicle. Half-filled water bottles and coffee cups remained on desks. As … |
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Water sustainability at center of new mixed-reality gameWith no end in sight for Arizona’s megadrought, many researchers at Arizona State University are developing innovations to mitigate the drought’s effects on residents, agriculture and industry, and promote water resilience and security. … |
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An ocean of possibilityCharlie Rolsky seems to be everywhere you look on campus. Tossing carne asada on a fire on a desert camping trip with biology students. Participating in an interpretive dance performance in the Biodesign Institute. Selling biology-inspired T-shirts for charity.… |
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Mystery dissolves with calcium pump discoveryGeo-microbiologists from Arizona State University have solved a long-standing conundrum about how some photosynthetic microorganisms, endolithic cyanobacteria, bore their way into limestone, sand grains, mussel shells, coral skeletons and other substrates composed of… |
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ASU alumni host service events for ASU CaresEach March, Arizona State University alumni organize service projects in their local communities. These events are part of ASU Cares, a series of volunteer activities hosted by ASU alumni chapters across the country. Sixteen ASU Cares events took place this year,… |
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Making waves against sea-level rise threatsA new research partnership between Arizona State University and the University of Hawaii at Hilo aims to better understand the vulnerability of island ecosystems, reefs and island communities against rising sea levels, while enhancing research opportunities for… |
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Solar fishing lights: One biologist’s bright idea, inspired by a lifetime love of the seaWhen trawlers head out to sea to fish for halibut, tuna and swordfish, fishermen spend hours attaching glow sticks near hooks so fish can see the bait. They’ll go through hundreds and thousands of glow sticks, tossing them overboard when the catch is hauled in. It’… |
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Sample 'Jeopardy!' questionsThink you got what it takes to be on "Jeopardy!"? Try your hand at some questions from past "Jeopardy!" games: (scroll down for answers) 1. On Sept. 1, 1715 Louis XIV died in this city, site of a fabulous palace he built. 2. Around 1542 explorer Juan… |
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In memory: Experimental petrologist John HollowayJohn Holloway, emeritus professor of chemistry and geology in Arizona State University's School for Molecular Sciences and world-famous experimental petrologist, died on Sept. 6, in Medford, Oregon. He was 77. Born in 1940 and a native of Klamath Falls, Oregon,… |
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Researcher: Culling whales will not boost tropical fisheriesScience article weighs in on International Whaling Commission debate For decades there has been a controversy about whales eating fish in the tropics. The “whales eat fish” debate has been at the heart of policy decisions about the culling… |