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As oceans warm, large fish struggle

Jan 15, 2021

Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the oxygen they need from their environment. The model is based on physicochemical principles that look...

Carnivore conservation can be improved by recognizing the divergences between scientific and Indigenous and Local Knowledge

Jan 15, 2021

Carnivore conservation has historically been based primarily on scientific knowledge using a wide range of sampling methods, such as camera trapping and track surveys. “I remember at the beginning of...

Security footprint grows in nation’s capital ahead of inauguration

Jan 15, 2021

National Guard troops at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday. Senior FBI and Secret Service officials also briefed Biden and some of his national security aides Wednesday, the transition team...

Poorest face dilemma in Africa’s cities

Jan 15, 2021

When South Africa imposed one of the world’s strictest lockdowns on 27 March of this year, Antoinette van der Merwe was visiting her family in Pretoria. “I only left the...

"Everybody needs a mentor"

Jan 13, 2021

As a mentor, the LMU alumna now wants to pass on this insight to others. "It's fairly common for a longstanding friendship to develop between the mentor and the mentee,"...

Secret Service launches massive security operation to protect Biden inauguration

Jan 13, 2021

Marshals Service and a host of other federal agencies that will fall under Secret Service command. Starting Wednesday, the nerve center for coordinating inauguration security and locking down the District...

Protest threats in multiple cities pose Inauguration Day challenge for Guard

Jan 13, 2021

Even as recriminations continue, Pentagon officials have for the second time in a year adjusted decision-making for the District Guard in the hopes of ensuring a nimble response. That was...

Social media manipulation by political actors an industrial scale problem - Oxford report

Jan 13, 2021

Organised social media manipulation campaigns were found in each of the 81 surveyed countries, up 15% in one year, from 70 countries in 2019. Governments, public relations firms and political...

Rock magnetism uncrumples the Himalayas’ complex collision zone

Jan 13, 2021

The story begins around 135 million years ago, when the Neotethys Ocean separated the tectonic plates of India and Eurasia by 4,000 miles. This is because Kohistan-Ladakh arc and India...

Heather Theberge, mechanical engineering staff member, dies at 42

Jan 13, 2021

Heather Theberge, an administrative assistant in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering’s undergraduate office, died on Jan. 3 after a brief battle with cancer. Heather greeted everyone who visited our...