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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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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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Narrowing the digital divide for health care

March 24, 2023

Many parts of rural America with less access to health care also have limited broadband internet that could help them take advantage of increasingly popular online health services.

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Can cities make room for woodpeckers?

March 30, 2023

Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America’s largest woodpecker.

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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.

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COVID vaccinations lag in rural, underserved communities

December 15, 2022

A new study in the Lancet found that wide disparities in health care coverage, particularly in rural areas, hampered vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings point to a hidden divide in America between those with ready geographic and financial access to doctors, hospitals and clinics and those without.

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UC research helps identify vulnerable populations

February 10, 2023

Research from the University of Cincinnati is helping to expose the health disparities that negatively affect Ohioans in poorer communities, both urban and rural, and guiding solutions to offer better care.

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New battery holds promise for green energy

September 6, 2023

In his chemistry lab at the University of Cincinnati, Associate Professor Jimmy Jiang and his students have created a new battery that could have profound implications for the large-scale energy storage needed by wind and solar farms.