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EGCS Part of International Team Warning of Risks of Polar Geoengineering to Slow Climate Change

This team assesses five of the most developed geoengineering ideas currently being considered for deployment in Antarctica and the Arctic.

Published date Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Go to all news list News

Forrest J. Bowlick and Team Launch MassView, a Service Strengthening MA’s Geospatial Resources

MassView will have a primary focus on expanding and strengthening offerings in remote-sensing data, science, and applications.

Published date Friday, August 15, 2025 Go to all news list News

Baoshan Xing and International Team Consider How Bad Micro- and Nanoplastics Are for Our Health

A new study points to a series of best practices that could get us one step closer to determining MNPs' real threat to human health.

Published date Tuesday, August 12, 2025 Go to all news list News

Physics Students Explain Why Six Feet of Social Distancing May Not Be Enough

The duo has modeled how aerosol plumes spread when people are waiting and walking in a line.

Published date Wednesday, August 6, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Microbiologist James Holden Looks to Sea for Answers to the Potential Existence of Alien Life

Holden lends his lifetime of experience with rare microbes to NASA's efforts to find life on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

Published date Monday, July 14, 2025 Go to all news list News

UMass's ‘Electronic Nose’ Included in 'Listverse' Compilation of 'Confounding New Inventions'

This living device can identify disease markers in sweat or breath, offering a noninvasive way to monitor various conditions.

Published date Monday, June 30, 2025 Go to all news list News

Mohammad Atari Co-authors Study on How AI Can Measure Our Cultural History

Atari and colleagues are using “cognitive fossils” to explore how people in earlier societies may have thought and felt.

Published date Friday, June 27, 2025 Go to all news list News

Rob DeConto and Team Suggest that Sea Levels Could Rise Even More Steeply

These findings highlight the urgent need to refine climate models and prepare for regionally variable sea level impacts.

Published date Friday, June 20, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Ecologists Release Dataset of Climate-smart Plants

If native plants are going to survive rising temperatures associated with climate change, they need human intervention.

Published date Monday, June 16, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Researchers Find That a Donkey Skin Secretion Naturally Repels Deer Ticks

In their experiments, the researchers determined that the compound is as effective as DEET.

Published date Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Go to all news list News

CNS Physicists are Looking to Muons to Explain What the Standard Model Can’t

This long-awaited result is a tremendous achievement of precision and is currently the world’s most precise measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly.

Published date Tuesday, June 3, 2025 Go to all news list News

Linda Tropp Calls for 'Psychological Generosity' in 'The Conversation'

Tropp suggests intentionally redirecting some of your attention toward the other people around you.

Published date Thursday, May 22, 2025 Go to all news list News

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