Citizen science project analyzes data to model treetop snowpack and predict melt

Citizen science project analyzes data to model treetop snowpack and predict melt
Participants in a citizen science project, created by University of Washington researchers and funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation, viewed time-lapse images from Colorado and Washington and tagged photos that had trees with snow on…

Published July 07, 2022 at 03:43PM
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Mysterious radio bursts from space detected

Mysterious radio bursts from space detected
Astronomers using the U.S. National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, or VLA, as well as other powerful telescopes have found the second known highly active, repeating fast radio burst, or FRB, raising more questions about the…

Published July 07, 2022 at 03:47PM
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Pigment or optical illusion? What makes this berry blue

Pigment or optical illusion? What makes this berry blue
Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado, when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a shrub known as Lantana strigocamara. While its tiny clusters of pink, yellow and orange flowers…

Published July 06, 2022 at 02:42PM
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Study shows that 'green islands' help forests regenerate after fire

Study shows that 'green islands' help forests regenerate after fire
Thanks to trends like mountain snowpack loss, drier summers and longer fire seasons, high-elevation forests in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest are burning more frequently and extensively than in the past. Increased fire damage has prompted…

Published July 06, 2022 at 02:51PM
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Bringing magma up to our feet in Antarctica

Bringing magma up to our feet in Antarctica
Antarctica has long been a land of mystery and heroic feats made famous by the explorations of James Ross and Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. A key piece of the puzzle for understanding global continental evolution, Antarctica is…

Published July 05, 2022 at 01:41PM
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Scientists discover uncertainties in flood risk estimates

Scientists discover uncertainties in flood risk estimates
Flood frequency analysis is a technique used to estimate flood risk, providing statistics such as "100-year flood" and "500-year flood" forecasts that are critical to infrastructure design, dam safety analysis and flood mapping in flood-prone areas…

Published July 05, 2022 at 01:46PM
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U.S. and Czech scientists collaborate to explore gamma-ray production with high-power lasers

U.S. and Czech scientists collaborate to explore gamma-ray production with high-power lasers
The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Czech Science Foundation, or GACR, are partnering on a new collaborative project of scientists from the University of California San Diego and Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines in the Czech Republic…

Published July 01, 2022 at 04:16PM
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