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How to spot a fake

December 6, 2022

University of Cincinnati chemists, geologists and art historians are collaborating to help area art museums answer questions about masterpieces and detect fakes — and teaching students about their methods.

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Forbes: When did mammoths go extinct?

January 24, 2023

UC paleontologist Joshua Miller tells Forbes that environmental DNA can persist for centuries or even millennia, making it unreliable as a barometer for dating extinction events.

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Caribou have been using same Arctic calving grounds for 3,000 years

February 8, 2023

Caribou have been using the same Arctic calving grounds for more than 3,000 years, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Female caribou shed their antlers within days of giving birth, leaving behind a record of their annual travels across Alaska and Canada’s Yukon that persists on the cold tundra for hundreds or even thousands of years.

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UC’s College of Arts and Sciences honors outstanding alumni

March 20, 2023

Five graduates of UC’s College of Arts and Sciences were recognized with alumni awards during the A Night with A&S annual ceremony earlier this month. As community leaders, philanthropists and professional pioneers, the impact of these alumni can be felt at the college, university, state and national levels. Also at the event A&S scholarship recipients were celebrated, and had the opportunity to meet with the donors whose contributions helped make their college experience possible. Meet the 2023 UC College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Alumni:

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‘Snowball Earth’ might have been slushball

April 5, 2023

Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet’s history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million years. But new evidence collected in China suggests the Earth was not completely frozen — at least not toward the end of the ice age.

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Researchers find evidence of twin mass extinctions

April 10, 2023

An international team of researchers say new evidence suggests a mass extinction 260 million years ago was not a single event but two separated by nearly 3 million years, both caused by the same culprit: massive volcanic eruptions.