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“One of my cornerstone pinnacles , ‘Show up to work life with integrity and intent.’ So, accomplish your goals with integrity, intent, and a mission. Stick to that and have the confidence to do that, and be OK with messing up and…

In honor of Women’s History Month, we caught up with the ASIA-AQ team on the other side of the Earth and asked the women from Langley about their inspirations and challenges as scientists. The ASIA-AQ (Airborne and Satellite…

NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation of Reston, Virginia, for safety and mission assurance support at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico. The Safety and…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00lGKadlbY NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara is returning home after six months aboard the International Space Station. During her time on the orbiting laboratory, O’Hara contributed to dozens of scientific…

Significant events in history keep finding Mat Bevill. As the associate chief engineer for NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) Program, Bevill assists the program chief engineer by interfacing with each of the element chief engineers and…

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Marinus Analytics took third place in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE competition. The company uses AI to help law enforcement find and protect victims of human trafficking.Marinus Analytics, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, won…

Investing in world-class research to protect Canada’s people, animals and plants March 26, 2024 -  Ottawa, Ontario - Public Services and Procurement Canada Through Laboratories Canada, the Government of Canada is providing federal…

As we made our way down one of the city streets that bisect the Yale campus, cars zooming by, my daughter Mari swept her wide-eyed gaze across the grand Gothic cathedrals that are Yale’s residential colleges. “I…

05CeresCeres is the smallest dwarf planet with an equatorial diameter of about 599 miles (about 964 kilometers). Ceres is about 1/13 the width of Earth. The closest dwarf planet to the Sun, Ceres orbits the Sun from an average distance…

Biweekly Columbia faculty seminar on industrial policy. For week 1, Joseph E. Stiglitz presented on the "Theory and Empirics: From East Asia to the IRA." Slides from presentation under the above tab "Background Materials".

  The space world is intensively focusing on sustainability, as highlighted by this year IAC’s choice of main topic. Within this context, we are thrilled to announce that SG is back once again this year, with the headline “Sustainable…

If you use the Microsoft Teams application, you may receive a message stating that the “Classic Teams” will soon be unavailable.   Beginning Monday, April 1st, Microsoft will be automatically upgrading the Teams application to…

By Sean Nguyen ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2023 Fellows’ key…

By Sean Nguyen ’24 The Global Research Institute’s Summer Fellows Program provides international experiential learning opportunities to W&M students. This post is one installment of a series highlighting the 2023 Fellows’ key…

Mississippi River and Midwest Flooding (March-July 2019): $6.2 billion, 4 deaths Additional major flooding impacted many Southern Plains states through the spring and summer, significantly affecting agriculture, roads, bridges, levees,…

Portland's water supply Maine’s Crooked River flows into Sebago Lake, the drinking water source for 52,000 household water customers who live in or near Portland, Maine. The lake is an ideal water supply—deep, cold, low in nutrients, and…

For New Englanders, the saying “as American as apple pie” may as well be “as New England as lobster.” A summer staple, the tasty crustaceans are served in every conceivable way: boiled, baked-stuffed, on pasta, on salads, or on a roll…

Between burning fossil fuels and clearing forests, humans emit far more carbon dioxide than Earth’s natural physical and biological processes can remove from the atmosphere. Fundamental to any attempts to understand, slow, or reverse the…

NOAA has long used aircraft to monitor hurricanes. Credit: NOAA In a groundbreaking new study, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists unveiled a significant advancement in…

The last week of November saw a significant snowstorm impact the central and northern Rockies as well as the central Plains and around the Great Lakes. This was then followed by well below normal temperatures over the eastern half of the…

Identifying molecules and predicting the identity of unknown substances play huge roles in discovering natural products that can be used in drugs to treat cancers, viral infections and other ailments. Researchers in the Computational…

What GAO Found Through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, businesses compete for federal R&D awards. Phase I awards fund businesses to assess feasibility, and…

1. IntroductionThe coastal zone is the interface between land and sea, possessing unique marine and terrestrial characteristics, and constitutes a dynamic and complex natural system . Coastal wetlands, especially, hold a crucial…

Clean Technol., Vol. 6, Pages 418-431: Forecasting Pitch Response of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines with a Deep Learning Model Clean Technologies doi: 10.3390/cleantechnol6020021 Authors: Mohammad Barooni Deniz Velioglu Sogut…

1. IntroductionClimate mitigation (encompassing measures taken to diminish greenhouse gas emissions) has been advocated as a solution to “slow harms”, given that mitigation measures in one country diminish greenhouse gas emissions all…

The radio spectra of DSFGs are a combination of a flat free-free component from HII regions containing massive ionizing stars and a steep synchrotron component resulting from relativistic electrons accelerated by supernova remnants. An…

4.2. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT)The analysis of changes in the inverted electrical resistivity profiles attests to several tendencies, resulting in four units with different characteristics (Figure 5): 1. a relatively…

1. Introduction Animals in nature face constant challenges such as predation pressure, harsh environments, or fluctuating food availability . To enhance fitness, many species exhibit parental care behaviors to increase the survival rate…

1. IntroductionRectifiers are a primary tool for delivering power from the electric grid to the local consumer by converting AC to DC voltage. Most switch–mode power converter topologies can be utilized as a single–phase power–factor…

1. IntroductionIn the past two decades, electronic gadgets have become an integral part of human life, with the incorporation of artificial intelligence and machine learning making them “smart” devices. One area where this is…

NASA selected 12 finalist teams to compete in the next round of the Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) competition. In 2023, NASA invited undergraduate and graduate students from accredited colleges and universities in the United States to…

Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This diversity plays a critical role in the health of flowers and farms. Scientists call it the "insurance effect," a great variety of bees working together to pollinate specific…

Download this image. March 22, 2024 Nudibranch (Notaeolidia) from Antarctica This nudibranch (Notaeolidia), or sea slug, a type of…

Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This diversity plays a critical role in the health of flowers and farms. Scientists call it the "insurance effect," a great variety of bees working together to pollinate specific…

Bees come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. This diversity plays a critical role in the health of flowers and farms. Scientists call it the "insurance effect," a great variety of bees working together to pollinate specific…

Please join the Human Networks and Data Science Program to discuss questions about the program with the program director.  Office hours take place over Zoom, generally on Thursdays. Please see date(s) listed below and note that…

Conducted since 1966, the GSS is an annual survey of all academic institutions in the United States that grant research-based master’s or doctoral degrees in SEH fields. The 2022 GSS collected data from 22,519 organizational…

GPS attacks can interfere with the safe operation of aircraftMarko Hannula / Alamy Russia is suspected of launching a record-breaking 63-hour-long attack on GPS signals in the Baltic region. The incident, which…

People cool off during a heatwave in AmsterdamKoen van Weel/AFP via Getty Images An analysis of all the heatwaves that occurred around the world between 1979 and 2020 has found that they are now persisting for 12…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Immunoassay Markets. Strategies and Trends. Forecasts by Application, Technology, Product, User and by Country. With Executive Guides, Customized Forecasting and Analysis. 2023 to 2027" report has been added…

Crowds at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona during the famous bull runMigel/Shutterstock People in a very dense crowd move in small circular “orbits”, like charged particles moving in a magnetic field. The…

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #GraceHealthTechnology--Grace Health Technology announces the launch of its new laboratory management software, Live Sample Management.

A brain region critical for memory is smaller in older adults with fewer than 10 teeth than in those who have most of their teeth, suggesting that tooth loss may precede the development of dementia

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #SeekLabs--Seek Labs, a healthcare innovations company developing next-generation molecular diagnostic systems and novel CRISPR-based gene therapies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Randy…

Potentially hazardous chemicals may be in food packagingPilin Petunyia/Getty Images Food packaging and utensils commonly contain up to 68 “forever chemicals” that carry possible health risks, with regulators…

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "PCR Markets. Forecasts for qPCR, dPCR, Singleplex & Multiplex Markets and by Application, Product and Place. With Executive and Consultant Guides, Including Customized Forecasting and Analysis. 2023 to…