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A big gulp for a little snake

August 25, 2023

Sure, pythons can swallow a deer whole, but the world-champion eater is a harmless African snake with a fondness for eggs.

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Life on Mars

July 11, 2022

The first year of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars captured the imaginations of scientists and the public alike with an interplanetary helicopter flight and the first chance to hear the sounds of the red planet. But two students at the University of Cincinnati say the best is yet to come in year two as the rover and their NASA science team begin in earnest to look for ancient life on another planet.

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Bearcats at the zoo

October 31, 2022

University of Cincinnati students and faculty get a chance to work on global wildlife conservation projects with the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, considered one of the best zoos in North America.

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UC finds ancient Maya reservoirs contained toxic pollution

June 26, 2020

A diverse team of biologists, chemists, anthropologists and geographers from the University of Cincinnati identified toxic mercury and algae in two central reservoirs of Tikal, an ancient Maya city, in the ninth century shortly before the city was abandoned.

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Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters

October 22, 2020

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Cincinnati discovered evidence of a sophisticated filtration system in the ancient Maya city of Tikal in what is now northern Guatemala.

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New UC collaboration focuses on senses

May 25, 2021

The University of Cincinnati has launched a new institute to study sensing in all its forms, from human and animal senses to the sensor technologies that enable our modern lifestyles and provide medical care.

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Secret weapon to stop invasive species: satellites

August 31, 2020

The University of Cincinnati found that satellite imagery can identify nonnative and invasive Amur honeysuckle, an ornamental shrub introduced from Asia that has spread in forests across much of the United States.