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Credit: Michigan State University High-speed internet access has gone from an amenity to a necessity for working and learning from home, and the COVID-19 pandemic has more clearly revealed the disadvantages for American households that lack a broadband connection. To tackle this problem, Michigan State University researchers have developed a new tool to smooth the collection of federal broadband access data that helps pinpoint coverage gaps across the U.S. The research was published May 26 In t...

Friday, April 30, 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am Africa’s growing space program presents new political, economic, and security opportunities and challenges for the United States. The technology transfer process, access to technologies and data, and support for systems development have the potential to increase U.S. political influence vis-à-vis U.S. adversaries; bolster two-way trade and investment; and deepen national security ties between the United States and African partners. Africa’s spac...

A warning about encroachment deeper into Table Mountain and alien plant infestation was issued two years ago 19 April 2021 - 19:46 The fast rate at which the raging Table Mountain fire spread was due to strong south-easterly winds and “what could probably be a high fuel load on the mountain”. This according to North West University (NWU) School of Geo and Spatial Sciences senior lecturer Dr Sheldon Strydom, who explained that fire required three “ingredients” to occur... This art...

The new project will focus on urban areas in the Central Flyway, primarily in the Great Plains. Researchers aim to provide more information on the impact of artificial light on bird behaviors and populations at a large scale.

Masayuki Morikawa Robots hold polar extremes in economic narrative and popular imagination. One narrative depicts a looming dystopian future with robots and other forms of automation increasingly replacing human workers, depressing wages (Brynjolfsson and McAfee 2014), feeding inequality, and contributing to further ‘deaths of despair’ (Case and Deaton 2020, Mulligan 2021). In counter-imaginations, robots embody innovative technology spurring productivity and freeing workers from repetitive...

Grace Barcheck/Cornell University Matthew Siegfried, forefront, and seismologist Marino Protti, of the Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica, prepare to move equipment at Whillans Ice Plain. The Transantarctic Mountains are in the background. Slow motion precursors give earthquakes the fast slip February 16, 2021 At a glacier near the South Pole, earth scientists have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes man...

At a glacier near the South Pole, earth scientists have found evidence of a quiet, slow-motion fault slip that triggers strong, fast-slip earthquakes...

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability Sue Nichols, nichols@msu.edu - February 2, 2021 All that’s local is a lot more global, and scientists say solutions can only be found through broader views and collaborations nearby and far away. California fires meet...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Historic wildfires meet tropical cyclones across the United States, underscoring the vast expanse "local " events can have an impact. view more  Credit: NASA Earth Observatory, Joshua Stevens Recent global calamities - the pandemic, wildfires, floods - are spurring interdisciplinary scientists to nudge aside the fashionable First Law of Geography that dictates "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." Geography, an...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Neil Adger, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change. view more  Credit: BBVA FOUNDATION The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen OBrien for changing the paradigm of climate change action, previously confined to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, by folding in the concept of adaptation to unavoidable impacts. While earlier editions ...