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Released: 19-Dec-2023 8:05 AM EST
How big events can disrupt public transit over an entire city
Ohio State University

New technology has allowed scientists to see how a major sporting event can disrupt public transportation in an entire city for hours before and after the event. Researchers conducted a case study in Columbus on days that The Ohio State University had home football games, attracting more than 100,000 fans to Ohio Stadium on the university’s campus.

Released: 15-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
A new tool to better model future wildfire impacts in the United States
Ohio State University

Wildfire management systems outfitted with remote sensing technology could improve first responders’ ability to predict and respond to the spread of deadly forest fires.

Released: 15-Dec-2023 12:40 PM EST
Using AI to pinpoint hidden sources of clean energy underground
Ohio State University

As efforts to transition away from fossil fuels strengthen the hunt for new sources of low-carbon energy, scientists have developed a deep learning model to scan the Earth for surface expressions of subsurface reservoirs of naturally occurring free hydrogen.

Released: 15-Dec-2023 7:05 AM EST
U.S. adults eat a meal’s worth of calories of snacks in a day
Ohio State University

Snacks constitute almost a quarter of a day’s calories in U.S. adults and account for about one-third of daily added sugar, a new study suggests.

Released: 14-Dec-2023 8:15 AM EST
Tropical ice cores offer deeper insights into Earth’s temperature record
Ohio State University

A new study suggests ice recovered from high tropical mountains can reveal key insights about Earth’s past climate changes

Released: 13-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
A rare enzyme role change with bacterial defense system assembly
Ohio State University

Scientists have revealed a never-before-seen phenomenon in a protein: Alone, the enzyme processes DNA and RNA but, when bound to another protein as part of a defense system, interacts with a completely different type of compound to help bacteria commit suicide.

Released: 13-Dec-2023 9:05 AM EST
When parents drink during Super Bowl, kids get harsh discipline
Ohio State University

Parents who drank alcohol while watching the Super Bowl were more likely than those who abstained to use aggressive discipline on their children during the game, a new study shows.

Released: 7-Dec-2023 12:05 PM EST
ChatGPT often won’t defend its answers – even when it is right
Ohio State University

ChatGPT may do an impressive job at correctly answering complex questions, but a new study suggests it may be absurdly easy to convince the AI chatbot that it’s in the wrong.

Released: 4-Dec-2023 11:40 AM EST
How mountains affect El Niño-induced winter precipitation
Ohio State University

A consideration of how mountains influence El Niño- and La Niña-induced precipitation change in western North America may be the ticket to more informed water conservation planning along the Colorado River, new research suggests.

Released: 30-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Harnessing the power of a parasite that can stop pain
Ohio State University

For the first time, scientists have begun to figure out why the disfiguring skin lesions caused by cutaneous leishmaniasis don’t hurt.

Newswise: Slash-and-burn agriculture can increase forest biodiversity
Released: 28-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
Slash-and-burn agriculture can increase forest biodiversity
Ohio State University

The slash-and-burn agriculture practiced by many Indigenous societies across the world can actually have a positive impact on forests, according to a new study done in Belize. Researchers found that in areas of the rainforest in which Indigenous farmers using slash-and-burn techniques created intermediate-sized farm patches – neither too small nor too large – there were increases in forest plant diversity.

Released: 27-Nov-2023 7:05 AM EST
Most unmarried, low-income couples show positive co-parenting
Ohio State University

Despite the many challenges they face, slightly more than half of unmarried low-income couples with children have positive co-parenting relationships, a new study found. And those supportive relationships were linked to their children showing more empathy, less emotional insecurity and fewer behavior problems.

Released: 15-Nov-2023 8:05 AM EST
Ice cores from Earth’s highest tropical peak provide insight into climate variability
Ohio State University

In the first study to examine ice cores from the summit of the highest tropical mountain in the world, new evidence provides unique insight into the climate record of the Amazon Basin over the last six decades

Released: 14-Nov-2023 1:05 PM EST
How teachers would handle student violence against educators
Ohio State University

For the first time, teachers in a nationwide study have told researchers what strategies they think work best to deal with student violence against educators. Teachers rated suspending or expelling students as the least effective way of addressing violence, despite the popularity of “zero tolerance” policies in many school districts.

Released: 14-Nov-2023 8:05 AM EST
New study reveals evidence of recurring ancient supereruption
Ohio State University

Researchers have discovered a series of large undersea sediment deposits in a region near Italy that were likely formed by an ancient volcanic supereruption.

Released: 9-Nov-2023 2:05 PM EST
Study examines link between underwater landslides and tsunamis
Ohio State University

Scientists have calculated a way to determine the speed of past underwater landslides, a new study has found.

Released: 7-Nov-2023 11:05 AM EST
For beginning nontraditional farmers, stress is a constant
Ohio State University

Farming is already a stressful occupation, but the stress is compounded for nontraditional beginning farmers, a small study in the Midwest suggests. Results showed that 58% of survey respondents reported mild to severe symptoms of anxiety or depression.

Released: 6-Nov-2023 8:05 PM EST
Advances in soft robotics usher in a new era of scientific analysis
Ohio State University

Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a hand in understanding the paleoecology tracing of extinct organisms?

Released: 3-Nov-2023 10:05 AM EDT
An exotic tick that can kill cattle is spreading across Ohio
Ohio State University

A species of exotic tick arrived in Ohio in 2021 in such huge numbers that their feeding frenzy on a southeastern farm left three cattle dead of what researchers believe was severe blood loss.



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