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NSF program directors will provide information on the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program solicitation NSF 22-586 during webinars in May 2024. The NSF-wide CAREER program supports early-career faculty who have…

To achieve net-zero emissions goals, the world needs an estimated two to three times the amount of electricity generation in 2050 that we have today. So says Conleigh Byers, Environmental Fellow at the Harvard University Center for the…

Most of us think potholes are something to avoid.However, some potholes are worth protecting. The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding researchers to study prairie pothole wetlands, which are ecologically and economically…

National Science FoundationDirectorate for Geosciences     Division of Ocean Sciences Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. submitting organization's local time):      July…

75th Anniversary Date and Time May 4–8, 2024 Location…

Cristine Russell: It's really a privilege of mine to have been able to get Professor Michael Mann, one of the leading climate scientists in the world, to come up to the Kennedy School. He's going to talk about his latest book, Our…

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s an important…

Particular attention is needed to ensure that ICARP IV informs national research and policy priorities. The Arctic Initiative is committed to the ICARP IV process: Jennifer Spence is co-chairing the team focused on science cooperation…

I recently sat down with Peter Kilmarx, M.D., acting director of the NIH Fogarty International Center (FIC), to discuss adaptation science, a critical yet often overlooked area in the broader conversation on climate change. As…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the minds of some, the manifold ills of corporate capitalism have a single source: short-termism.…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who work from home all or part of the time are less likely to get pay rises and promotions, the…

Bruges, Belgium. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A group of European urban areas bordering seas and rivers is paving the way for climate…

Image: Comparison of yarn hairiness for yarns of the same linear density (30 tex) and different spinning systems. Credit: Source: 'Investigating the influence of yarn…

GESDA's Brabeck-Letmathe hopes rules are in place to govern quantum computing before it is unleashed. As technology and science advance at…

A wavy jet stream in purple with high (red) and low (blue) pressure systems. Credit: NOAA climate.gov Headlines declaring a "Black…

A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023,…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain East Coast residents were jolted Friday by a 4.8-magnitude earthquake centered near Lebanon, New Jersey,…

An aerial view of the excavation site at Crowland. Credit: The Anchor Church Field Project Archaeologists from Newcastle University have…

People tend to make more impulsive decisions if they think about time delays first, UCLA researchers have found. Changing how information is presented could lead to…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When disaster hits, a quick and coordinated response is needed, and that requires data to assess the nature of the…

A better understanding of the complex hydrology in arid regions will give environmental managers the information they need to make the best possible decisions. Credit:…

Schematic diagrams of Z score and ecosystem water needs assessments. a, Landscape schematic diagram illustrating how normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and…

Royal Research Ship (RSS) Discovery stopped at Azores, Portugal, for supplies during the 29th Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT29). The cruise departed from…

EP-enhanced phase sensing platform. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl5037 Optical sensors serve as the backbone of…

The recurring nova T Coronae Borealis will shine as brightly as the North Star some time in the next five months, astronomers say. Sometime…

NASA's Loral O'Hara, left, Russia’s Oleg Novitsky and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya, right, are seen inside the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft after they…

Posted by Carrie Knight, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement in…

The paper argues for putting aside the old rentier state paradigm that has long dominated Gulf literature, considering the emergence of both the Gulf Moment and the United Arab Emirates Momentum (henceforth UAE Momentum).…

WASHINGTON, DC, April 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NatureServe, the leading authority on rare and endangered species and ecosystems in North America, proudly announces NatureServe Explorer Pro, an innovative tool that elevates the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Current levels of interest in learning a foreign language are unprecedented, and there have never been so…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain When Americans mark their presidential election ballots later this year, immigration will be top of mind—it's the…

The Yangtze River. Credit: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay The first study of toxic "forever chemicals" along the full length of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A 7.4 magnitude earthquake has rocked the east coast of Taiwan—the largest the island nation has seen in…

A Yanomami Indigenous woman carries her child on her back at a Brazilian Air Force field hospital in the city of Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil, in January 2023.…

Spatial pattern of trends in annual mean NBP (gC m−2yr−1) across Africa over 2000 to 2019 based on an ensemble of 17 Dynamic Global Vegetation Models from TRENDY v9.…

Examples of pointed split woods and close-up images of the worked point. Photos: Matthias Vogel, Jens Lehmann, Dirk Leder, NLD. Credit: Proceedings of the National…

Dental pieces from sheep found in the Cueva de El Toro sampled for this study. Credit: Alejandro Sierra, UAB The study of the feeding pattern…

Located in Finland's Siikaneva peatland, this permanent measurement station aids INAR researchers from the University of Helsinki in micrometeorological and aerosol…

Directionality of mechanistic links between climate change, biodiversity, and infectious disease. Credit: The Lancet Planetary Health (2024). DOI:…

A dolomite sample from the Cambrian Muav formation as seen through a microscope. Multiple generations of mineral-growth can be seen. Credit: Uri Ryb, Hebrew University…

This study explores the impact of human-induced climate change on Northern Hemisphere winter weather, highlighting the dominant role of specific teleconnection…

In 2023, Shanya Gill clinched the prestigious Thermo Fisher Scientific ASCEND (Aspiring Scientists Culivating Exciting New Discoveries) Award at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher…

Sea ice in Disko Bay, Greenland, 20. March 2023. Credit: Lars Henrik Smedsrud Recent decades have witnessed rapid changes in the Arctic…

Judy Zhang, left, and Rita Parai in Parai's laboratory. Credit: Sean Garcia/Washington University in St. Louis In Earth science, small…

The Aureia rerehua fossil. Credit: University of Otago University of Otago researchers have formally identified and named a fossil dolphin…

In the November 25th issue of Advances in Ecological and Environmental Research, the Science and Decisions Center has an article entitled…

An artist-generated image illustrating possible futures in policy and research due to human modifications of the atmospheric water cycle. Credit: Patrick Keys and…

On April 2, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan traveled to the University at Buffalo (UB), where he joined Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the launch of…

Mo Mirvakili PhD ’17 was in the middle of an experiment as a postdoc at MIT when the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Grappling with restricted access to laboratory facilities, he decided to transform his bathroom into a…

Moeed W. Yusuf is the Vice Chancellor of Beaconhouse National University and former National Security Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan. With a background in policy research, Yusuf has contributed significantly to scholarship and…