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Photo: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Last week, it was revealed that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had been buying up lots of land in Hawaii at an accelerating clip. Benioff, who is worth billions and billions of dollars, has procured approximately $100 million in land parcels throughout the Big Island via a series of nondescript LLCs. He’s been quite cagey about what most of this land is for and was more than a little bit hostile with the NPR journalist who broke the story about it. Now, in what really seems like…

University of Washington campus.Photo: Karen Ducey (Getty Images)Diversity & Gender StudiesDiversity studies broadly tackle social constructs and systemic issues in society, examining factors like race, ethnicity, sociality, class, and age, among others. Gender studies focus on the social structures that have historically defined gender and current ideas about gender. Taken together, the two disciplines investigate the breadth of factors that define and shape society, as well as how we treat one another. Our No. 1…

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India has entered into a collaboration with the US state of California for research and innovation in the field of zero-emission vehicles to spur the development of its nascent EV industry and address climate risks. California has the world's most advanced zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) policies. It has an ambitious 100 per cent ZEV mandate by 2035. As part of the collaboration, the University of California, research institute Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, established a new India ZEV Research Centre. The…

This picture taken on May 23, 2020 shows a laboratory monkey sitting in its cage in the breeding centre for cynomolgus macaques (longtail macaques) at the National Primate Research Center of Thailand at Chulalongkorn University in Saraburi.Photo: Mladen Antonov (Getty Images)An animal rights group wants the University of California Davis to release nearly 400 photos of test monkeys they claim were tortured and abused during testing for Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain computer interface company.In a press release, the…

For the first time, astronomers have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system.The exoplanet called 'HIP 65426 b' is a gas giant, meaning it has no rocky surface and could not be habitable.The exoplanet is about six to 12 times the mass of Jupiter, and these observations could help narrow that down even further.It is young, about 15 to 20 million years old, compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old Earth."This is a transformative moment, not only for Webb but also for…

There it is, in four different bands of the infrared spectrum: the gas giant HIP 65426b, the first exoplanet directly imaged by the Webb Space Telescope.“Obtaining this image felt like digging for space treasure,” said Aarynn Carter, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who led the analysis of the images, in a NASA release. “At first all I could see was light from the star, but with careful image processing I was able to remove that light and uncover the planet.”While these are the first direct…

Environmental engineers help balance human needs and health with the preservation of nature, working to mitigate water and air pollution, manage stormwater runoff, and reduce erosion, among other issues. They will design future infrastructure and systems that are more efficient and less polluting. Their work will result in better waste management and recycling, cleaner cities, and safer industrial sites.The Degrees of the Future 2022 top Environmental Engineering programs are:Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh,…

One of the most critical problems humans currently have is how to generate power efficiently. We have many ways of generating electric power, but all have their drawbacks—some are devastating for the environment, some are difficult to scale, and some have been sidelined for years due to fears about safety. As we move away from fossil fuels, energy engineering will help us find more efficient alternatives and better ways to use existing renewable energy like wind and solar. The field produces innovations in energy…

Runaway growth and rampant waste cannot continue the way they did in the 20th century—our natural resources are limited, and environmental destruction is an existential threat to both wildlife and human society. From fisheries management, to corporate sustainability, to designing the apartments of the future, sustainability is an essential field of study as humankind tries to rein in gross mismanagement of the planet’s resources.The Degrees of the Future 2022 top Sustainability programs are:Arizona State University |…