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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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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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Regional media: UC expert talks about abandoned wells

September 15, 2022

UC College of Arts and Sciences associate professor Amy Townsend-Small talks to the WFMP program Sustainability Now! and WOSU's the Ohio Statehouse about Kentucky's leaking oil and gas wells and a new federal initiative to cap them.

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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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UC student says ancient invasion can inform wildlife conservation

October 14, 2022

Ian Forsythe studies geology in UC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He examined the fossil record to examine how one well-known invasion of animals that impacted surrounding flora and fauna in the vast shallow seas that covered the Midwestern United States during the Ordovician Period. He presented his findings to the annual conference of the Geological Society of America.

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School of rocks

September 20, 2022

A group of UC Geology graduate students, faculty and alumni saw billions of years of the Earth's history on a field trip to Northern Minnesota and the Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada region in early August 2022.