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A sweaty child on a playground.
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Children are more sensitive to heat than adults, and chronic overheating can affect their experience and engagement at school.

Heat exposure in California schools prompts multi-campus research project

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A shortfin mako encountered off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
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Neil Ferdinand Nathan
Apex predators like this shortfin make have an outsized influence on their ecosystems. Unfortunately, they’re also the hardest hit by fishing.

Big sharks have a big impact — and a big problem
Laser reflect on optic table un quantum laboratory
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Bright prospects for engineering quantum light
A ranger watches hippos through binoculars.
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A ranger watches hippos in the Akagera national park, Rwanda, which is managed by the NGO African Parks. Management of many of the continent's protected areas is being transferred from governments to nonprofit NGOs.

Outsourcing conservation in Africa
Headshot of Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer

Library acquires papers of Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer
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A long-exposure shot of fireflies in Thailand

Rhythms of nature: understanding synchrony in oscillatory systems
Students and professor working at a white board
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Matt Perko

On the origin of academic traditions — and some alternatives for debate
concept illustration of water and other molecules

‘Going green always wins’: Bruce Lipshutz makes the case for green chemistry in drug manufacturing for low-income countries
Sand dunes surround palms, trees, shrubs and a small lake in the UAE.
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A desert oasis is perhaps the most striking example of a groundwater-dependent ecosystem.

Groundwater is key to protecting global ecosystems
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Shuji Nakamura to be inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fame
Fishing boats in Peru
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Renato Molina

Expanding marine reserves will redistribute global fishing effort
a hand holding a lightbulb with a glowing outline of a brain

Four junior faculty members win Sloan Research Fellowships
orange and black butterflies on a branch
Monarch butterflies undertake a multigenerational migration that covers thousands of miles

Neurobiologist Sung Soo Kim receives 2024 Scholar Award from McKnight Foundation
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