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- Sun ‘umbrella’ tethered to asteroid might help mitigate climate change https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/07/31/sun-umbrella-tethered-asteroid/ 2 comments
- New blood biomarkers linked to Alzheimer’s: scientists identified novel metabolite biomarkers, molecules produced during chemical reactions in our body’s cells (metabolism), in blood for AD https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/02/12/blood-markers-linked-to-alzheimers/ 3 comments science
- New study found a rise of microplastics in placentas of Hawaiʻi mothers from 2006 (6 of the 10 placentas contained microplastics) to 2021 (microplastics in all 10 placentas) https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/11/29/rise-of-microplastics-in-placentas/ 450 comments science
- High energy electrons in Earth's plasma sheet are contributing to weathering processes on the Moon's surface and may have aided the formation of water on the lunar surface. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/09/14/earths-electrons-moon-water/ 4 comments science
- Research has found under a worst-case scenario, half of coral reef ecosystems worldwide will permanently face unsuitable conditions in just over a dozen years, if climate change continues unabated https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/10/11/coral-reefs-climate-change-threat/ 9 comments science
- Researchers have assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4. Using eight different methods, they measured the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. Galaxies beyond our immediate neighborhood are rushing away, faster if they are more distant https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/09/26/map-galaxies-largest-ever-catalog/ 33 comments science
- More than half of known human pathogenic diseases such as dengue, hepatitis, pneumonia, malaria, Zika and more, can be aggravated by climate change. 58%, or 218 out of 375, of known human pathogenic diseases had been affected at some point by at least one climatic hazard via 1,006 unique pathways. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/08/08/greenhouse-gas-emissions-diseases/ 23 comments science
- A study on underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations found that noise from one mine alone could travel approximately 500 kilometers (roughly 311 miles) in gentle weather conditions, which could affect the understudied species that live in the deep sea https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2022/07/08/deep-sea-mining-noise-pollution/ 18 comments science
- Discharge of precious groundwater impacted by sea level, ocean tides https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/12/15/discharge-of-precious-groundwater/ 3 comments science
- Should tourists pay a ‘green fee’ to protect Hawaiʻi’s environment? https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/11/05/visitor-green-fee/ 45 comments environment
- Neighborhood ties improve well-being of older adults. Scientists observed that higher perceived neighborhood social cohesion is associated with lower odds of having serious psychological distress or memory problems among older adults. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/06/29/neighborhood-ties-for-older-adults/ 16 comments science
- Solar system’s most distant planetoid "Farfarout" has been confirmed and designated 2018 AG37. With an orbital period of a thousand years, it required "several years of observations to precisely determine its trajectory." https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/02/10/most-distant-planetoid-confirmed/ 24 comments space
- Ancient rivers reveal multiple Sahara Desert greenings: Large parts of the Sahara Desert were green thousands of years ago, evidenced by prehistoric engravings in the desert of giraffes, crocodiles and a stone-age cave painting of humans swimming https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/01/28/sahara-desert-greenings/ 4 comments worldnews
- 300 meter asteroid subject of new findings, possible Earth impact 2068 https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/10/26/new-massive-asteroid-findings/ 5 comments science
- The expansion of the universe is accelerating, but the physics of this expansion remains a mystery. Now, scientists have made a novel prediction—the dark energy responsible for this accelerating growth comes from a vast sea of compact objects spread throughout the voids between galaxies. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/09/01/location-novel-candidate-dark-energy/ 15 comments science
- The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has signed a memorandum of agreement with the U.S. Navy to officially establish a new Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) unit at the university, which will begin training students in fall 2021. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/08/25/navy-establishes-rotc-program/ 11 comments navy
- Ringing of the global atmosphere has been detected. New study shows the Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates in a manner which is analogous to one of the resonant pitches of a bell, in a striking confirmation of theories developed by Laplace and other pioneering physicists over the last two centuries. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/07/08/ringing-of-global-atmosphere/ 31 comments science
- Astronomers use total solar eclipses to trace the corona’s magnetic field at a higher resolution than ever before https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/06/05/ifa-mysteries-of-sun-corona/ 3 comments science
- Nasa DOESN'T finds evidence of a parallel universe! https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/12/10/antarctica-physics-discovery/ 159 comments space
- U.S. National Monuments in the Pacific Ocean do not harm fishing industry despite numerous claims, new study shows. The findings indicate that expansion of the Pacific Remote Islands and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monuments did not cause economic harm to the Hawaii longline fishing fleet. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/02/20/marine-national-monuments-fishing-industry/ 5 comments science
- Never-before-seen images of Sun released from world's largest solar telescope https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/01/29/first-light-inouye-solar-telescope/ 12 comments worldnews
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa research shows, gay men in China ages 25–29 are eight times more likely to feel criticized and rejected compared with men in that country ages 20 or younger. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/07/02/public-health-gay-men-china/ 4 comments science
- The world’s oceans are helping to combat global warming. An international team of scientists has shown that the ocean is absorbing carbon dioxide (C02), generated during the combustion of fossil fuels, from the atmosphere at an increasing rate from the 1990s to the early 2000s. https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/03/21/oceans-impact-human-produced-co2/ 5 comments worldnews
- Public health experts say that with proper investment, at least $2 billion/year, the entire world could be free of tuberculosis by 2045 https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2019/03/20/tuberculosis-eradicated-public-health-report/ 24 comments science
- Outer Space Source for Phosphates - Required Building Blocks For Life https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/09/25/key-building-blocks-for-life-deep-space/ 3 comments science
- The "Out of Africa" model of early human migration and dispersal is outdated. As a new survey of research on the subject confirms, humans left Africa in waves, not in a single exodus. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/12/07/complicated-origin-of-modern-humans/ 4 comments science
- New gene catalog of ocean microbiome reveals surprises http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/08/17/gene-catalog-ocean-microbiome/ 3 comments science
- Six astronaut-like crewmembers entered a geodesic dome atop Mauna Loa on the island of Hawaiʻi as part of an eight-month research study of human behavior and performance. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2017/01/19/mission-v-crew-enters-hi-seas-mars-simulation-habitat-on-mauna-loa/ 5 comments space
- Study finds Earth’s sensitivity to variations in atmospheric CO2 increases as the climate warms. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/11/09/a-new-study-concludes-warm-climate-is-more-sensitive-to-changes-in-co2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+uhawaiinews+%28university+of+hawai%CA%BBi+system+news%29 5 comments science
- University of Hawai'i is recruiting for NASA-funded mars simulation missions http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/08/10/hi-seas-recruiting-for-mars-simulation-missions/ 3 comments science
- An array of GPS instruments near the San Andreas Fault System has discovered nearly 125 mile-wide “lobes” of uplift and subsidence—a few millimeters of motion each year—straddling the fault system. This large scale motion was previously predicted in models but until now had not been documented. http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/06/20/new-analysis-reveals-large-scale-motion-around-san-andreas-fault-system/ 13 comments science
- [SERIOUS] National Guard ROTC/Simultaneous Membership Program, Need Second Opinions http://www.hawaii.edu/armyrotc/documents/NGB_Form_594-1.pdf 43 comments army
- Giant World War II aircraft-carrying submarine discovered off Oahu coast http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aid=6166 35 comments technology
- Power Kills - An Estimated 290,000,000 human beings have been killed by government since we started keeping records, with an estimated 1,000,000,000 since 3500BC before modern record keeping http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/note13.htm 3 comments politics
- My political views are still in their infancy. Is this infographic accurate? http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/tch.fig31.3.gif 13 comments politics
- Pornography, Rape and Sex Crimes in Japan - Despite the "apparent increase in available pornography and sexually explicit materials, ... sex crimes in every category... significantly decreased in incidence." http://www.hawaii.edu/pcss/biblio/articles/1961to1999/1999-pornography-rape-sex-crimes-japan.html 10 comments science