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- A meteor demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city possibly inspiring Sodom myth https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2021/09/09_conversation_explosion.php#.YVYBbkbMJPB 25 comments
- USC doctoral student unravels ‘tin whisker’ mystery http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5371#.UMQOcOTAdnE 15 comments
- Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long enough to grow old in the olden days, too - USC News & Events https://sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2022/08/conversation-old-age-is-not-a-modern-phenomenon.php 2 comments anthropology
- Why is inflation so high? Is it bad? https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2021/12/12_conversation_inflation.php 43 comments economics
- A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2021/09/09_conversation_explosion.php#.YVRrTprMLIU 29 comments history
- Archaeologists present new evidence of a controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans. https://www.sc.edu/uofsc/posts/2019/10/10_chris_moore_research.php#.xbnfd7ftwdz 3 comments science
- Eye evolution within a species: crustacean is first to yield data showing ocular microevolution http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/11_dudycha_daphnia_eye_variation.php#.vlmvq3u0fbi 3 comments science
- Making green fuels, no fossils required: efficient reduction of CO2 to CO via nitrogen-doped carbon nanotube catalyst http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/10_zhou_carbon_dioxide_reduction.php#.vjfpu6s0fbi 5 comments science
- Steaming out some of luminol’s wrinkles: "steam thermography" does a lot of what luminol can, without the limitations http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/10_steam_thermography_myrick_morgan.php#.viplsqs0fbi 3 comments science
- Radioactivity diminishes in Fukushima, yet negative effects on birds strengthen http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/04_tim_mousseau_fukushima_birds.php#.vs60mjtf-u0 3 comments science
- One in six college students misuse ADHD stimulant drugs http://sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/03_kate_flory_kari_benson.php#.vqaxw2tf-u0 5 comments science
- Rivers Just 20% of Water Flowing Into Oceans? http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2015/02_billy_moore_sgd_aaas.php#.vnizbmtf-u0 3 comments science
- In the past 600 years off the California coast, fish populations have occasionally crashed naturally. Poor yearly fish harvests in the last 60 years aren’t any worse in severity than earlier, but anthropogenic climate change might be making them happen more frequently. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/09_ryan_rykaczewski_cc.php#.vcdsihy1b7g 3 comments science
- Global warming might increase--not decrease--ocean’s dissolved oxygen where it is least plentiful http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/08_robert_thunell_omz.php#.u-p2hegaiwu 6 comments science
- “Fertilization” of the ocean with iron is a proposal for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. This paper doesn’t suggest that, but establishes new details about iron in seawater, an essential part of the carbon cycle and possible driver of past glacial-interglacial changes. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/07_john_seth_atlantic_iron.php#.u7wai41dx64 4 comments science
- “Fertilizing” the ocean with iron is one proposal for removing atmospheric CO2 (e.g., ‘give me half a tanker of iron, and I will give you the next Ice Age’). This Nature paper doesn’t propose that, but establishes new details about iron in seawater, an essential part of the carbon cycle. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/07_john_seth_atlantic_iron.php#.u7r_hy1dx64 3 comments science
- Medieval identity theft: someone from the 16th century foiled British authorities in the 21st. Rare monastic pocket bible cleared customs and emigrated to America in 2010. Take that, Henry VIII. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/05_uofsc_researchers_id_medieval_bible.php#.u4huofldwlg 6 comments history
- A professor at the University of South Carolina studied medieval skeletons from the period before, during and after the Black Death. She found people who survived the plague lived much longer lives than people did before it struck. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/announcements/2014/05_sharondewitte_blackdeath_plosonejournal.php#.u2uxz1dun41 13 comments science
- Penicillin redux: new way to reinvigorate penicillin and its beta-lactam cousins against superbugs. Beating antibiotic resistance by going back to the future. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/penicillin_redux_chuanbing_tang_mrsa_superbug.php#.u0wwiezdwxo 3 comments science
- Blue isn’t just blue: using non-destructive spectroscopy to identify pigments and look deeper into the history of medieval illuminated manuscripts http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/04_adam_glenn_illuminated_manuscripts_gwara_morgan.php#.uz65kv7eplk 3 comments history
- Get off the bus: put CPU and memory in the same place, eliminate the need to transfer data, process massively parallel, mimic the brain. Materials with unusual properties needed; materials with unusual properties found. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/03_yuriy_pershin_mem_computing_ferroelectric.php#.uzqpu17eplk 60 comments science
- Chernobyl’s radiation damage to microbes is causing buildup of ‘kindling’ in forests. Large, catastrophic wildfire could spread radioactive material. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/03_tim_mousseau_microbial_decomposition_chernobyl.php#.uyne_v7eplk 22 comments science
- High blood pressure causes depression. Depression causes high blood pressure. And some antidepressants can worsen cardiovascular disease. Sheesh. http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2014/03_susan_wood_stress_depression_heart_disease.php#.ux9n_17eq-8 3 comments science
- The thinnest membrane ever constructed: 1.8-nm-thick graphene oxide readily sorts hydrogen and carbon dioxide http://www.sc.edu/uofsc/stories/2013/miao_yu_thinnest_membrane_graphene_oxide.php#.uk7dfxakuw0 11 comments science
- Oil-eating microbe communities a mile deep in the Gulf http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=6302#.ud8v9g1t4go 14 comments science
- USC-CS a good major for me? http://sc.edu/admissions/learn/majors.html 3 comments cscareerquestions
- Turning pine sap into 'ever-green' plastics http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5945#.uszwovcudym 6 comments science
- Genetic scientists, order now: One mouse species is polygamous, the other is monogamous, and they can interbreed. http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5682 4 comments science
- So even a little bit of radiation is harmful? http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5214 16 comments science
- USC doctoral student discovers cause of tin whiskers http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=5371 219 comments science
- New evidence of giant comet that hit 13,000 years ago, right when many species went extinct and at the last ice age. http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=4706#.ufon-cvdat4 237 comments science
- Finished reading this a couple of weeks ago. Am I the only one who found it stupidly overrated? http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/trimalchio/gg1a.jpg 17 comments books
- Scientists Turn the Everyday T-Shirt into Resilient Body Armor http://www.sc.edu/news/newsarticle.php?nid=876 80 comments technology
