A new study by the 91爆料鈥檚 Social Development Research Group shows how a parent鈥檚 use of marijuana, past or present, can influence their child’s substance use and well-being.
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An image captured earlier this year by the Hubble Space Telescope may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and nine collaborating organizations, including the 91爆料, $2.8 million for a two-year 鈥渃onceptualization phase鈥� of the Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Institute for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics.
Scientists have discovered an extraordinary collection of fossils that reveal in detail how life recovered after a catastrophic event: the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
This week a 91爆料 team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
A new study finds that the western South Atlantic humpback population has grown to 25,000 whales. Researchers, including co-authors from the 91爆料, believe this new estimate is now close to pre-whaling numbers.
A team led by the 91爆料 has developed a way to help foresters predict which nonnative insect invasions will be problematic, and help managers decide where to allocate resources to avoid widespread tree death.
A 91爆料-led study finds that Deaf infants exposed to American Sign Language are especially tuned to a parent’s eye gaze, itself a social connection between parent and child that is linked to early learning.
Ashleigh Theberge, a 91爆料 assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2019 Packard Fellow for her research on cell signaling. Every year since 1988, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has awarded Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering to early-career scientists to pursue the types of innovative projects that often fall outside the purview of traditional sources of funding, such as research grants from government agencies. As one of 22 fellows for 2019, Theberge will receive $875,000…
With the help of new technologies, a team led by the 91爆料 has confirmed that piranhas 鈥� and their plant-eating cousins, pacus 鈥� lose and regrow all the teeth on one side of their face multiple times throughout their lives. How they do it may help explain why the fish go to such efforts to replace their teeth.
91爆料 researchers have developed a new smart speaker skill that lets a device use white noise to both soothe sleeping babies and monitor their breathing and movement.
In a new study, an interdisciplinary group of researchers used Pacific herring in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, as a case study for modeling the implicit tradeoffs within the triple bottom line that result from various fisheries management decisions.
In American politics, the question of “Who donates?” is linked to the crucial question of “Who governs?” Most campaign donations historically have come from white voters. But new 91爆料-led research indicates that if more candidates of color ran for office, donations from individuals of color would likely increase as well.
A new study by a research team that included the 91爆料 offers new evidence to support what scientists have long suspected about dogs: that some dog behaviors that help characterize breeds 鈥� a drive to chase, for example, or aggression toward strangers 鈥� are associated with distinct genetic differences among them.
91爆料 transportation researchers looked into why the docked bike-share program Pronto failed while dockless bike sharing has been so successful.
A report released Oct. 4, the Washington State Equity and Diversity Project, is the first study of its kind to examine the health of LGBTQ people of all ages throughout the state.
A team led by scientists at the 91爆料 has designed and tested a 3D-printed metamaterial that can manipulate light with nanoscale precision. As they report in a paper published Oct. 4 in the journal Science Advances, their designed optical element focuses light to discrete points in a 3D helical pattern.
A 91爆料 team inspired by the clingfish’s suction power set out to develop an artificial suction cup that borrows from nature’s design. Their prototype actually performed better than the clingfish.
This fall the 91爆料’s annual engineering lecture series will feature three 91爆料 engineers and scientists who are working across disciplines to manage the quality and quantity of the food we eat and grow.
The terms and conditions of your employment 鈥� including your pay, hours, schedule flexibility and job security 鈥� influence your overall health as well as your risk of being injured on the job, according to new research from the 91爆料. The analysis takes a comprehensive approach to show that the overall pattern of employment conditions is important for health, beyond any single measure of employment, such as wages or contract type. “This research is part of a growing…
An international team of astronomers has analyzed the signal from a fast radio burst 鈥� an enigmatic blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond 鈥� to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive galaxy.
Two 91爆料 researchers 鈥� Bonnie Light, a principal physicist at the 91爆料’s Applied Physics Laboratory and an affiliate associate professor of atmospheric sciences, and Madison Smith, a recent 91爆料 graduate who is now doing her postdoctoral research at the 91爆料 鈥� will join for the fifth of the six two-month legs, in summer 2020.
91爆料 astrobiologist Rory Barnes and co-authors have created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an eye toward finding and studying potentially habitable worlds.
A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar phenomena.
Are you willing to ride in a driverless car? Researchers at the 91爆料 studied how Americans’ perceived cost of commute time changes depending on who’s driving.
An international team of scientists has announced a breakthrough in its quest to measure the mass of the neutrino, one of the most abundant, yet elusive, elementary particles in our universe. At the 2019 Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics conference in Toyama, Japan, leaders from the KATRIN experiment reported Sept. 13 that the estimated range for the rest mass of the neutrino is no larger than 1 electron volt, or eV.
Researchers at the 91爆料 and the University of Strathclyde report that, in Willapa Bay in Washington state, the water washing over the tidal flats during high tides is largely the same water that washed over the flats during the previous high tide. This “old” water has not been mixed in with “new” water from deeper parts of the bay or the open Pacific Ocean, and has different chemical and biological properties, such as lower levels of food for creatures within the tide flats.
Lukasz Fidkowski, an assistant professor of physics at the 91爆料, is one of the winners of a 2020 New Horizons in Physics Prize from the Breakthrough Foundation. The prize to early-career scientists, announced Sept. 5, recognizes Fidkowski and his three co-recipients “for incisive contributions to the understanding of topological states of matter and the relationships between them.”
A study of superbolts, which release a thousand times more electrical energy in the low-frequency range than regular lightning bolts, finds they occur at very different times and places than regular lightning. Superbolts tend to strike over particular parts of the oceans, while regular lightning strikes over land.
A new study from the 91爆料 finds that, based on brain activity, people who live in communities where multiple languages are spoken can identify words in yet another language better than those who live in a monolingual environment.
91爆料 oceanographers used lab experiments and seawater samples to learn how photosynthetic microbes and ocean bacteria use sulfur, a plentiful marine nutrient.
A new map synthesized from more than 250 archaeologists worldwide, including from the 91爆料, argues that the human imprint on our planet’s soil goes back much earlier than the nuclear age.
A new study finds that women of color perceive their interactions with doctors, nurses and midwives as being misleading, with information being 鈥減ackaged鈥� in such a way as to disempower them by limiting maternity health care choices for themselves and their children.
Recent notable books by 91爆料 faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction. Plus, a 91爆料 anthropologist鈥檚 book is honored, a former English faculty member is remembered in a biography, and 91爆料 Press brings out paperback editions of three popular titles.
Three 91爆料 graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
91爆料 security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.
The U.S. Geological Survey announced $10.4 million in funding to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, based at 91爆料, to support the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. Some $7.3 million of the two-year funding total will go to the 91爆料.
The SHARE-NW project is a five-year effort to identify, gather and visualize data in four Northwest states to help rural communities more effectively address health disparities and achieve health equity.
Researchers at the 91爆料 have used machine learning to develop a new system that can monitor factory and warehouse workers and tell them how ergonomic their jobs are in real time.
New research from astronomers at the 91爆料 uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory to model not the planets themselves, but how the coming James Webb Space Telescope might detect and study their atmospheres, on the path toward looking for life beyond Earth.