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A team of astrophysicists, including two researchers from CU Boulder, have caught a glimpse of a new and rocky planet called LP 791-18d. There, temperatures on the dayside could climb to more than 250 degrees Fahrenheit, while volcanoes blast the planet's surface.

According to recent research conducted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers, people who live in communities with a higher proportion of Black and Hispanic/Latino residents are more likely to be exposed to harmful levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their water supplies than people who live in other communities.

NASA has chosen a team from Brown University and institutes around the world for help in its return to the moon.

Contest challenges doctoral students to present their work in an engaging, unconventional manner

Harvard-led team finds standards don’t account for major source of drinking water contamination.

Earlier this year, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed maximum allowable levels in drinking water for six PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) – so-called forever chemicals. But the draft standards do not account for half of the PFAS at contaminated sites across the country.

Boston MA (SPX) May 12, 2023 - Throughout the ocean, billions upon billions of plant-like microbes make up an invisible floating forest. As they drift, the tiny organisms use sunlight to suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Without Prochlorococcus in the open ocean sequestering huge amounts of carbon, “we would be looking at a very different planet,” Rogier Braakman says. New research suggests the microbe’s ancient coastal ancestors colonized the ocean by rafting out on chitin particles.

Public Release: 21-Jun-2017 The curious case of the warped Kuiper Belt The plane of the solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, signaling the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto, according to new research from the UA University of Arizona   IMAGE: A planetary mass object…

Living along the coast next to the Pacific Ocean provides us with a temperature buffer or moderating effect. Yet we have had snow on the beach in Santa Cruz on several occasions and also had some very sweltering days here.