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- Popular Science Writing: A Challenge to Academic Cultures [pdf] http://ou.edu/content/expo/brainstorm/jcr%3Acontent/contentpar/download_37/file.res/Erickson-Popular%20Science%20Writing.pdf 13 comments
- Researchers Identify 135 New Melanin Genes Responsible for Pigmentation https://ou.edu/research-norman/news-events/2023/researchers-identify-135-new-melanin-genes-responsible-for-pigmentation 10 comments science
- New climate modeling study predicts increasing occurrences of flash flooding across most of the U.S. If emissions continued at their current rate, flooding events would become 7.9% “flashier”, meaning heavy rainfall events are likely to occur quickly and in concentrated areas https://ou.edu/research-norman/news-events/2022/climate-modeling-predicts-increasing-flash-flooding 11 comments science
- Thanks to a microsatellite DNA and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPS), researchers can now differentiate between the eastern and western Painted Buntings and identify the species pattern of migration and population of origin. http://www.ou.edu/publicaffairs/archives/2018/june/ouresearchteamidentifiesgeneticstructureofpaintedbunting 3 comments science
- Astrophysicists discover planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing - the only known method capable of discovering planets at great distances from the Earth - researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter. http://www.ou.edu/content/publicaffairs/archives/2018/ouastrophysictsdiscoverplanetsinextragalacticgalaxies.html 17 comments science