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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Carol Camp Yeakey, the Marshall S. Snow Professor of Arts & Sciences and founding director of Washington University in St. Louis's Center on Urban Research & Public Policy, is leading a two-year national study to examine the surge of corporate investors in the single-family rental (SFR) market and the implications for renters, especially marginalized communities of color.…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In two newly published papers, Tom Lyon, professor of business economics and public policy, explores the effect of sentiment and policy on greenhouse gas emissions. Lyon and his collaborators found that community concerns and policy actions can significantly predict and affect greenhouse gas emissions from local facilities. …

James Cameron fans have been eagerly anticipating this week, when collector’s editions of The Abyss, True Lies, and Aliens hit 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time, joining recently released special collector’s editions of Cameron’s mega-blockbusters Titanic, Avatar, and Avatar: The Way of Water. io9 has an exclusive clip from the special features arriving with The Abyss to share today.Will We See More of Uhura's Relationship with Spock? | io9 InterviewThe clip comes from brand-new documentary “The Legacy of The Abyss,”…

The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating an oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach in Orange County, with initial estimates of an oil sheen visible on the surface of the water stretching about two miles wide, officials said Friday.County Supervisor Don Wagner’s office confirmed by phone that “details are scant,” but officials have confirmed that the oil sheen visible about 1.5 miles off the coast is not from natural causes. Wagner and her colleague Supervisor Katrina Foley both tweeted about the incident Friday morning…

One of the scientists who was fired from Canada's top infectious disease laboratory "intentionally" shared scientific information with China — potentially putting people's health in jeopardy — says an assessment by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).  The intelligence assessment was released late Wednesday afternoon by the federal government, along with hundreds of other documents about the mysterious dismissal of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband Keding Cheng.The scientists and their students worked in the…

During its nesting season, the marbled murrelet, known affectionately among bird watchers as a "strange, mysterious little seabird," lays a single egg in the thick mosses that grow on the branches of British Columbia's old-growth forest canopy.With some of those forests under threat from logging, the small black-and-brown mottled seabird is considered threatened, too.The marbled murrelet is among a growing number of migratory species animals facing a perilous future, a new UN report found.  "The solution for the marbled …

Distribution of monsoonal domains in climate model simulations. Upper panel shows a pre-industrial control simulation (CESM) and two early Eocene simulations with ×6 pCO2 (GFDL and INM). Lower panel shows different pCO2 scenarios (×3, ×6 and ×9) of the CESM model. The red dot indicates the location of the Xining Basin. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-023-01371-4 As part of the "VeWA" research consortium,…

The Rocky Mountains conjure up images of grey rugged peaks capped with white. But within the upper reaches of the harsh mountain landscapes, a rosier hue often blooms.Watermelon snow, also known as glacial blood, is caused by algae that turns the snow a startling shade of red.The algae blooms in summer, forming on the snowfields that linger on glaciers, frozen lakes, rugged peaks and icy valleys in the upper reaches of mountain terrain.The darker the snow, the faster it melts — and new research sheds light on the threat…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Innovation may be what drives progress in the arts, business, sciences and technology, but the novel ideas that drive innovation often face headwinds that hinder or even prevent their adoption. Why did some good ideas, such as hand sanitizing in 19th-century hospitals or racial integration in the 20th century, take years to…

Following last week's terrifying incident in which a 737 Max 9 lost a cabin panel mid-flight, the Federal Aviation Administration says it will have more oversight of the company's production and manufacturing. The FAA is also into Boeing following the incident, which led to the agency .The FAA says it will audit the 737 Max 9 production line and its suppliers to make sure Boeing is complying with quality protocols. It notes that the results will determine whether further audits are needed. In addition, the FAA will more…