Around Anchorage, communications among the critically endangered population of Cook Inlet beluga whales聽may be masked by ship noise in their core critical habitat, accordingly to the first repertoire of their calls.
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With several university athletic programs around the country 鈥� including the 91爆料 鈥斅燼nnouncing moves to new conferences that will likely increase travel for student-athletes, a group of sleep and circadian scientists and physicians have published a white paper describing the significance of repeated, chronic jet lag on student-athlete health and performance 鈥� both in academics and in sports, and suggesting strategies to reduce the consequences of travel across time zones.
New research from Andrew Hafenbrack, associate professor of management and organization in the 91爆料 School of Business, and other institutions examines the impact of leadership style on prospective Black employees who apply for jobs in less-diverse companies.
Currently, more than half of all cervical cancers diagnosed in the United States are in people who are overdue for screening or have never been screened. In a new study, researchers report that mailing HPV test kits significantly increased cervical cancer screening rates.
A new study from the 91爆料 found that unfiltered air from rush-hour traffic significantly increased passengers鈥� blood pressure, both while in the car and up to 24 hours later.聽
Two 91爆料 geophysicists will travel to the Atacama Desert in Chile this month to study a fault system that’s similar to the Seattle Fault in Puget Sound, but in a much different climate that makes it easier to monitor its effects on the landscape.
A team led by researchers at the 91爆料 developed 11 actions a robotic arm can make to pick up nearly any food attainable by fork. This allows the system to learn to pick up new foods during one meal.
A team at the 91爆料 has created an interactive dashboard called WhaleVis, which lets users map data on global whale catches and whaling routes from 1880 to 1986. Scientists can compare this historical data and its trends with current information to better understand whale populations over time.
Three 91爆料 experts are among the authors of the newly released Fifth National Climate Assessment, an overview of climate trends, impacts and efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change across the nation.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of declining phytoplankton in the North Atlantic may have been greatly exaggerated. Analysis of a Greenland ice core going back 800 years shows that atmospheric chemistry, not dwindling phytoplankton populations, explains the recent ice core trends.
A team led by researchers at the 91爆料 has developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers can select which sounds they want to include from 20 classes, such as sirens, baby cries, speech, vacuum cleaners and bird chirps.
Seven researchers at the 91爆料 conducted a three-month autoethnographic study 鈥� drawing on their own experiences as people with and without disabilities 鈥� to test AI tools鈥� utility for accessibility. Though researchers found cases in which the tools were helpful, they also found significant problems.
A team led by researchers at the 91爆料 has created A11yBoard for Google Slides, a browser extension and phone or tablet app that allows blind users to navigate through complex slide layouts, objects, images and text.
There are more than 200 species of noctilionoid bats, mostly in the American tropics. And despite being close relatives, their jaws evolved in wildly divergent shapes and sizes to exploit different food sources. A paper published Aug. 22 in Nature Communications shows those adaptations include dramatic, but also consistent, modifications to tooth number, size, shape and position. For example, bats with short snouts lack certain teeth, presumably due to a lack of space. Species with longer jaws have room for more teeth 鈥� and, like humans, their total tooth complement is closer to what the ancestor of placental mammals had.
Supervisors are traditionally associated with higher status markers such as age, education and tenure than their subordinates. But it鈥檚 increasingly common to see those dynamics reversed, which is the focus of a new study from Jessica Huisi Li, 91爆料 assistant professor of management and organization.
A project led by the 91爆料 used genetic sleuthing to study how salmon were affected by two major culvert replacements near the city of Bellingham. One project, a major upgrade under Interstate-5, had a big impact, while the other old culvert may have been less of a barrier to fish. Authors from the 91爆料 and NOAA are studying the use of eDNA in future environmental impact reporting.
The 91爆料鈥檚 animal facilities on the Seattle campus underwent a routine, unannounced inspection by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) between Sept. 12 and 14. The inspection identified four non-compliant items, all of which had previously been self-reported by the 91爆料 and rectified before the inspection took place.
In a paper published Sept. 6 in Physical Review Letters, an international team of researchers in the United States, Germany and France reported that a distinctive strategy they have used shows real promise to be the first approach to measure the mass of the neutrino. Once fully scaled up, their collaboration 鈥� Project 8 鈥� could also reveal how neutrinos influenced the early evolution of the universe as we know it.
This month, 91爆料 researchers will introduce multiple projects that deploy augmented reality 鈥� through headsets and phone apps 鈥� with the aim of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.
Public scrutiny of Purdue Pharma鈥檚 role in the opioid crisis increased sharply in the years after the state of Kentucky filed a lawsuit against the company. New research from David Tan, 91爆料 associate professor of management, examines the ensuing behavior of competing prescription opioid companies.
Among the most prestigious scientific organizations in the country, the Academy recognizes excellence in the fields of health and medicine, along with a commitment to volunteer service.聽
Astronomers with the International Astronomical Union are trying to understand how the brightness and transmissions of the BlueWalker3 satellite will interfere with Earth-based observations of the universe 鈥� and what can be done to minimize these effects as more of these satellites are launched.
The robot, equipped with a solar panel鈥搇ike energy harvester and four wheels, is about the size of a penny, weighs as much as a raisin and can move about the length of a bus in an hour on a cloudy day.
Katie Davis, a 91爆料 associate professor in the Information School, discusses how generative AI might support learning, instead of detracting from it, if kids can keep their agency.
A team including researchers at the 91爆料 recently used new software to compare MRIs from 300 babies and discovered that myelin, a part of the brain鈥檚 so-called white matter, develops much slower after birth.
The National Science Foundation has awarded the 91爆料 $52.4 million over five years to continue operating the Regional Cabled Array, a cabled deep-ocean observatory about 300 miles offshore from Newport, Oregon. The grant is part of a $220 million total investment that will fund the internet-connected ocean observatory, known as the Ocean Observatories Initiative, through 2028.
A team led by researchers at the 91爆料 has developed system of robotic self-deploying microphones, which lets users control sound in a room, muting certain areas and creating 鈥渁ctive zones鈥� in others.
The frigid ocean surrounding Antarctica is home to much of the region’s photosynthetic life. A new 91爆料 study provides the first measurements of how sea-ice algae and other single-celled life handle dramatic seasonal swings, offering clues to how this ecosystem might adapt to climate change.
91爆料 researchers developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent.
The 91爆料 is a lead partner on a new multi-institution earthquake research center that will study the Cascadia subduction zone and bolster earthquake preparedness in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Two years ago, as life regained its rhythm and public transit once again filled with people, train and bus operators spotted a troubling trend. Some operators reported instances of people smoking drugs on their vehicles, and worried that the haze it created could linger, potentially affecting workers鈥� physical and mental health.聽 Spurred by operators鈥� concerns, five transit agencies in Washington and Oregon approached researchers at the 91爆料 with a yes-or-no question: Were transit operators being exposed to drug…
New research from Simha Mummalaneni and Ali Goli, assistant professors of marketing in the 91爆料 Foster School of Business, finds that a menthol cigarette tax is a preferable policy to scattered statewide bans.
A new paper from the 91爆料 and Polar Bears International quantifies the relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and the survival of polar bear populations. The paper combines past research and new analysis to provide a quantitative link between greenhouse gas emissions and polar bear survival rates.
A new study from the 91爆料 and Cornell University shows researchers more likely to write scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that can鈥檛 be explained by varying gender representations across scientific disciplines and time.
Taken together, the two papers’ findings suggest that wildfire smoke poses a risk to people of all ages, not just young children and older adults.
Researchers with the 91爆料 and the U.S. Forest Service have developed a new tool, REBURN, that can simulate large forest landscapes and wildfire dynamics over decades or centuries under different wildfire management strategies. The model can simulate the consequences of extinguishing all wildfires regardless of size, which was done for much of the 20th century and has contributed to a rise in large and severe wildfires, or of allowing certain fires to return to uninhabited areas to help create a more “patchwork” forest structure that can help lessen fire severity. REBURN can also simulate conditions where more benign forest landscape dynamics have fully recovered in an area.
How people initially react to organizational change depends on their placement within their work groups鈥� status hierarchy, according to new research from Elijah Wee, assistant professor of management in the 91爆料 Foster School of Business.
A team of biomedical researchers has developed a new method for hiring engineering professors. The primary goal is to actively recruit a more diverse group of applicants and improve the rate that doctoral students from historically excluded groups go on to become faculty members.
A particle physics experiment decades in the making 鈥� the Muon g-2 experiment 鈥� looks increasingly like it might set up a showdown over whether there are fundamental particles or forces in the universe that are unaccounted for in the current Standard Model. On Aug. 10, the international team of scientists behind Muon g-2 鈥� pronounced 鈥済 minus 2鈥� 鈥� released the world鈥檚 most precise measurement yet of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. Calculating the muon鈥檚 magnetic moment at a high precision will indicate whether it is interacting solely with the particles and forces known today, or if unknown particles or forces are out there.
Twenty-five undergraduates are among the participants on a 41-day cruise off the Oregon coast aboard the 91爆料’s large research vessel, the R/V Thomas G. Thompson. Principal investigator Deborah Kelley, professor of oceanography, answers questions about the expedition to visit and maintain the cabled ocean observatory.