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Using AI to Mitigate the Growing Environmental Threat of Data Centers

By rethinking how large cloud computing systems operate, Associate Professor Christina Delimitrou seeks to make data centers more energy efficient.

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New Framework Developed for Moving Endangered Species to Safer Locations

A new framework designed to guide one of the hardest decisions in conservation—whether to move a species outside its historical range to save it from extinction—has been published in Conservation Science and Practice, capping a multi-year, Pacific-wide effort in which the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa played a central supporting role.

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UH Study Reveals How Tilapia Adapt to Extreme Salt Stress

In the world of aquatic life, the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) is remarkably tolerant to salt water, surviving in habitats ranging from fresh water to hypersaline ponds three times saltier than the ocean.

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New Possibilities Uncovered for Efficiently Converting Sunlight Into Clean Energy

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new family of materials that use light to produce hydrogen from water, opening the door to new ways of converting the sun’s rays into clean energy.

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Cartilage Can't Heal Well - But That May Change

New scaffolds, drugs and imaging to repair joints and prevent arthritis.

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The Cheshire Cat’s Grin: Cooper Pairs Found Above Superconducting Critical Temperature in Pair Density Waves

Physicists with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Grainger College of Engineering have identified a new form of superconducting behavior. 

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Warning on Quality of Rainwater

Rainwater tanks are a popular way for Australians to save water, but new research has found they can also harbour potentially harmful bacteria and metals that could pose health concerns.

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Australia's Bushfire Crisis Linked to Colonial Land-Use Change

Forest expansion and thickening after British colonisation has created landscapes more prone to burning, amplifying the influence of climate change and propelling Australia’s bushfire crisis, a new study has found.

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Wildfire Ozone Pollution Weakening Amazon’s Ability to Absorb Carbon

Soils are warming quickly and at considerable depth across Alaska, with temperatures rising fastest in the state’s permafrost region, a trend that could accelerate climate change and undermine the stability of roads, buildings and other infrastructure built on the continuously frozen ground.

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UVM Study Reveals How Lake Trout Embryos Acquire Thiamine in the Wild

For decades, fisheries managers have struggled to restore wild populations of lake trout recruitment across the Great Lakes region, with limited success.

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