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Newswise: ASU Preservation Facility Serves as Test Bed for Rooftop Heat Mitigation
Released: 7-Nov-2024 12:25 PM EST
ASU Preservation Facility Serves as Test Bed for Rooftop Heat Mitigation
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EnKoat, an Arizona State University spinout founded by two doctoral students, has developed a roof coating that uses thermal-energy storage materials to mitigate heat effects improve building energy use.

Newswise: ASU-Led Initiative Announces First Decarbonization Projects for US Industry
Released: 8-Oct-2024 1:05 PM EDT
ASU-Led Initiative Announces First Decarbonization Projects for US Industry
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Today, Electrified Processes for Industry Without Carbon, or EPIXC, took its first steps toward that ambitious goal and announced its first volley of efforts targeting industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

Newswise: Researchers Use AI to Help People See More Clearly
Released: 2-Oct-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Researchers Use AI to Help People See More Clearly
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A serious, irreversible eye disease known as myopic maculopathy is on the rise. Yalin Wang, a professor of computer science and engineering in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at ASU, is leading a team to find solutions

Newswise: Extreme Heat Impacts Daily Routines and Travel Patterns
Released: 2-Oct-2024 7:00 AM EDT
Extreme Heat Impacts Daily Routines and Travel Patterns
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Research shows a clear shift in transportation choices under extreme heat conditions. Car use increases, while trips made by walking, biking and public transit drop significantly. On average, public transit trips fall by nearly 50% on extreme heat days as individuals seek relief in air-conditioned private vehicles.

20-Sep-2024 7:05 PM EDT
In November the Famous ‘Lucy’ Fossil Discovery Turns 50, Continues to Impact Human Origins Scientific Research
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Fifty years ago—on November 24, 1974—only a few years after humans’ first steps on the moon, a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, walking in the dusty landscape of the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia discovered the first human ancestor fossil who reliably walked upright on two feet—“Lucy.”

Released: 2-Jul-2024 9:00 AM EDT
ASU receives $4.5M grant to educate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals
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The American Cybersecurity Education Initiative will develop a master's degree in cybersecurity systems at the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.

Newswise: Chilling discovery: Cold-sensing protein may pave the way for safer pain relief
18-Jun-2024 2:30 PM EDT
Chilling discovery: Cold-sensing protein may pave the way for safer pain relief
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Research published in Science Advances traced the history of human’s ability to feel cold back to the molecular underpinnings of the cold and menthol sensor TRPM8 over hundreds of millions of years. The findings could lead to non-addictive pain medications, a crucial development given the opioid crisis.

17-Jun-2024 8:05 PM EDT
Computer modeling shows where Arizona’s winter precipitation originates
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A team of researchers working with a weather model have uncovered new details of water availability in Arizona’s uplands and where that water comes from. The work may help in future planning of the Phoenix metropolitan area, as well as provide guides for coming precipitation seasons.

12-Jun-2024 1:00 AM EDT
Sustaining Impact: ASU retains No. 1 in US and top 10 spot globally in UN Sustainable Development Goals ranking
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Times Higher Education once again recognized Arizona State University for its commitment to assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves through its Impact Rankings. For the fifth consecutive year, ASU retains its No. 1 spot in the United States and top ten globally for its work through education, research and practice in alignment with the SDGs.

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Released: 6-May-2024 3:05 PM EDT
How sports analytics is changing the game
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With expertise in basketball and football analytics, as well as sports revenue generation and economic impacts of events, Daniel McIntosh has assisted with economic impact studies and shares how sports analytics has changed the NBA.

Newswise: Alzheimer’s Consortium set to bring experts and families together at ASU
Released: 23-Apr-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Alzheimer’s Consortium set to bring experts and families together at ASU
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The gathering brings together industry experts and leading researchers to bring the latest science to the people in an interactive forum where they can exchange current information and ongoing advances.

   
Released: 15-Apr-2024 6:05 PM EDT
Latino researchers converge at ASU to discuss everything from migration to gender
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Researchers from all over the nation, including the Duke, Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame and Dartmouth, to name a few, will take part in this convergence of LatinX knowledge and entrepreneurship.

Newswise: Researcher’s microscale tech is chipping away at cancer, organ failure and neurological disease
Released: 26-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Researcher’s microscale tech is chipping away at cancer, organ failure and neurological disease
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For outstanding contributions to engineering of biomimetic tissue-on-chip technologies and organoids for disease modeling and regenerative medicine, ASU's Mehdi Nikkhah has been inducted as a Fellow into the American Institute for Medical and Biomedical Engineering.

Released: 18-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Study shows middle-aged Americans are lonelier than European peers, suggests loneliness in middle age is endemic
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New research has shown that not only are middle-aged Americans lonelier than their same-age peers in Europe, but levels of loneliness are also increasing across generations in the U.S. and Europe.

Newswise: Likely next steps for Neuralink as first human trail gets underway
Released: 1-Feb-2024 8:05 AM EST
Likely next steps for Neuralink as first human trail gets underway
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Neuralink's brain-computer interface technology is going to be a game-changer -- first for patients with paralysis and then for those with a more broad spectrum of neurological issues.

Newswise: DOE program aims to enhance, protect America’s power grid
Released: 23-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
DOE program aims to enhance, protect America’s power grid
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ASU is developing an underground construction tool that would deploy medium-voltage electrical cables and conduits simultaneously underground with a lower risk to existing utilities, also reducing costs and schedule impacts from reaming and duct pulling tasks.

Newswise: Protecting coral 'nurseries' as important as safeguarding established reefs
Released: 8-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Protecting coral 'nurseries' as important as safeguarding established reefs
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When imagining corals, the picture that comes to mind is usually a stationary one: a garden of rock-like structures covering sections of the ocean floor. Reef conservation efforts typically focus on preserving established coral and protecting them from known stressors such as pollution, overfishing and runoff from coastline populations.

Newswise: New research models critical climate collapse conditions in ecological and biological systems
Released: 19-Dec-2023 1:05 PM EST
New research models critical climate collapse conditions in ecological and biological systems
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ASU's Ying-Cheng Lai and team sought to find the probability of rate-induced tipping in the whole state space, then used the corresponding data to build a mathematical theory that could be applied generally to systems in the ecological and biological realms.

15-Dec-2023 12:05 AM EST
ASU research reveals regions in U.S. where heat adaptation and mitigation efforts can most benefit future populations
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New research published in the January issue of Nature Cities examines, for the first time, the potential benefits of combining heat adaptation strategies with mitigation strategies to lessen heat exposure across major U.S. cities. It also identifies the regions in which these strategies could best benefit future populations.

Newswise: Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing medical research
Released: 14-Dec-2023 11:00 AM EST
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing medical research
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Biomedical engineering researchers at Arizona State University are using artificial intelligence to accelerate medical advances.



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