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Released: 4-Mar-2020 3:25 PM EST
Professor works to preserve endangered Ladino language
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Bryan Kirschen, an assistant professor of Spanish and linguistics at Binghamton University, is working to preserve the Ladino language, which can be traced back to the 15th century.

Released: 4-Mar-2020 1:30 PM EST
Study reveals rapid sea-level rise along U.S. Atlantic coast in 18th century
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

A new study reveals that during the 18th century, sea levels along a stretch of the Atlantic coast of North America were rising almost as fast as they were during the 20th Century.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 12:10 PM EST
Twenty-fifth anniversary of the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

Twenty-five years ago, scientists on the CDF and DZero particle physics experiments at Fermilab announced one of history’s biggest breakthroughs in particle physics: the discovery of the long-sought top quark. The two collaborations jointly made the announcement on March 2, 1995, to much fanfare.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 11:50 AM EST
Geologists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust
Iowa State University

Geologists studied exposed, 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust in Australia and used that rock data to build a quantitative, inverse model of ancient seawater. The model indicates the early Earth could have been a "water world" with submerged continents.

Released: 27-Feb-2020 10:00 AM EST
‘Dramas of desperation’: Book examines naked protest in Africa
Cornell University

In July 2002, hundreds of female protestors in Nigeria occupied properties owned by Chevron Texaco. By threatening to take off their clothes, the women convinced corporate authorities to negotiate with them for better resource management and for environmental justice.

Released: 26-Feb-2020 5:00 PM EST
UA Little Rock releases virtual exhibit to commemorate history of Elaine Massacre, deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has launched a virtual exhibit to commemorate the 1919 Elaine Massacre, the deadliest racial conflict in Arkansas history. The exhibit, “Elaine Race Massacre: Red Summer in Arkansas,” is an interactive experience based on historical resources, including photographs, scholarly essays, and educational resources that can be used by historians, teachers, and students.

Released: 26-Feb-2020 8:15 AM EST
Each Mediterranean island has its own genetic pattern
University of Vienna

A Team around Anthropologist Ron Pinhasi from the University of Vienna – together with researchers from the University of Florence and Harvard University – found out that prehistoric migration from Africa, Asia and Europe to the Mediterranean islands took place long before the era of the Mediterranean seafaring civilizations.

Released: 25-Feb-2020 2:20 PM EST
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Free Images for Broader Public Use
Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian announced today the launch of Smithsonian Open Access, an initiative that removes Smithsonian copyright restrictions from about 2.8 million of its digital collection images and nearly two centuries of data. This means that people everywhere can now download, transform and share this open access content for any purpose, for free, without further permission from the Smithsonian.

Released: 25-Feb-2020 1:55 PM EST
Latest Scarlet and Black Book Explores Lives of Rutgers’ First Black Students
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

In a new book in the Scarlet and Black Project, Rutgers University continues to examine its historical relationship to race, slavery and disenfranchisement, telling the story of the school’s first black students, who were pioneers treated as outcasts on their own campus.

Released: 25-Feb-2020 1:10 PM EST
Modern technology reveals old secrets about the great, white Maya road
University of Miami

Did a powerful queen of Cobá, one of the greatest cities of the ancient Maya world, build the longest Maya road to invade a smaller, isolated neighbor and gain a foothold against the emerging Chichén Itzá empire?

Released: 25-Feb-2020 1:05 PM EST
UIC receives archives of pioneering neuropsychiatrist
University of Illinois Chicago

Early records and personal papers of Dr. Abraham Low, founder of nonprofit mental health organization donated to UIC.

Released: 25-Feb-2020 9:00 AM EST
Military waste has unexpected consequences on civilians, the environment
Binghamton University, State University of New York

The military waste that results from the United States military’s drive to remain permanently war ready has unexpected consequences on civilians and the environment, according to a new book by a faculty member at Binghamton University, State University of New York.

   
Released: 24-Feb-2020 8:00 AM EST
Anonymous no more: combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked graves
Universite de Montreal

A method developed by a team of geneticists, archaeologists and demographers may make it possible to identify thousands of individuals whose remains lie in unmarked graves.

Released: 19-Feb-2020 4:45 PM EST
Expert: Art museums ‘have work to do to represent complete human experience’
DePaul University

Historically, art museum galleries have lacked diversity of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, abilities, and sexual orientation, and it’s important for museums to begin to address this representation issue in order to show the wide range of human experience, said Julie Rodrigues Widholm, director and chief curator of DePaul Art Museum located on the campus of DePaul University.

Released: 19-Feb-2020 10:40 AM EST
Cognitive experiments give a glimpse into the ancient mind
Aarhus University

Symbolic behaviour - such as language, account keeping, music, art, and narrative - constitutes a milestone in human cognitive evolution.

Released: 18-Feb-2020 3:35 PM EST
What is the evolutionary purpose of menopause?
University of Georgia

There must be some huge evolutionary benefit that renders women’s lives so valuable post-reproduction that they actually live six to eight years longer than men everywhere around the world.

   
Released: 18-Feb-2020 11:40 AM EST
Power of photojournalism seen in early 20th century exposé on Chicago meat industry
Iowa State University

A 1905 story not only prompted massive reforms in U.S. food and public health policy and inspired Upton Sinclair’s widely popular novel “The Jungle.” It was also one of the first examples of the power of photojournalism, as uncovered in a recent Iowa State University study.

   


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