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ASU professor speaks on mitigating urban greenhouse gas emissionsThe United Nations Climate Conference is underway in the Peruvian capital of Lima. Delegates there are receiving urgent messages about global warming, including information about record temperatures on both land and vast areas of… |
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ASU duo rows Atlantic for charityFor the past two months, an ASU duo braved the waves of the Atlantic Ocean to complete a spirited adventure of human endurance. Emily Kohl, ASU Head Women’s Rowing Coach and Sarah Kessens, Biodesign Institute PhD graduate student, were part of a record-setting female… |
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Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years agoA team of researchers led by Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton has provided the first ever direct… |
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Casting out demons, myths and stereotypesWitches, pagans and polytheists: They’re not seance-holding weirdos, tree-worshipping nudists or Stonehenge-dancing hippies. They hold regular jobs, pay taxes and are people who care about their communities. As it turns out, they’re ordinary folks. They just… |
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To infinity and beyond: The future of space at ASUEditor's note: Read about the history of ASU's space school — how it grew from a traditional program into an astro powerhouse — here. A mission to the moon is… |
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A pragmatic approach to extreme weatherWhen a super cyclone slammed into the northeast coast of India in October 1999, winds with top speeds of 160 miles per hour and tidal surges of 26 feet battered the coast, killing almost 10,000 people and destroying the homes of millions more. Flash-forward 14… |
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NASA's Curiosity rover discovers water-rich fracture halos in Gale CraterA research team using new methods to analyze data from NASA’s Curiosity rover and its neutron spectrometer Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons, or DAN, on Mars was… |
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Losing our minds to techEarlier this summer, almost 100 cars ended up stuck in a muddy Colorado field. An accident in Denver led Google Maps to suggest an alternate route to the airport. “I took the exit and drove where they told me to,” one woman told a local TV station. The road turned… |
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ASU receives $6.36M grant to launch Pacific Island research centerThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced a five-year, $6.36 million research grant that will launch the Pacific Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (Pacific RISA) program as a research center at Arizona State University within the… |
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Working toward advances in carbon capture to turn the tide on climate changeAs global challenges go, significantly reducing the amount of harmful greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans is most certainly among the most daunting. Those gases, especially carbon dioxide, to a large degree are leading to… |