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How NAU researchers are tackling (and preventing) homelessness in Arizona

Homelessness in Arizona has reached a new crisis point. In 2023, more than 14,000 people were without shelter—a 29% increase since 2020.Help could be on the way, thanks to grant funds that are fueling new research projects based at NAU and...
12-Sep-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Using AI to prevent ruptured brain aneurysms

Bioengineering Ph.D. student Holly Berns won a grant from the Brain Aneurysm Foundation to study how AI and other new technologies can change how aneurysms are discovered and treated. Her project will use AI and machine learning to examine how...
5-Sep-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

NAU physicist wins $5M NSF grant to advance research in quantum physics

An NAU physicist is spearheading groundbreaking new quantum physics research, a field with the potential to revolutionize computing, communication, security and sensing on a global scale
29-Aug-2024 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

‘Not remarkable’—Researchers take a new look at impacts of 4.2 ka climate event 

Students, alumni and faculty from the School of Earth and Sustainability leveraged the power of big data to take another look at the 4.2 ka event—a historic megadrought thought to have Earth-altering effects. What they found in the data pointed to...
15-Aug-2024 4:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Bought too much toilet paper before that winter storm? Here’s why

Why do so many consumers purchase far more than they need during weather emergencies, causing stores to run out of products before everyone has a chance to stock up? Cony Ho, an assistant professor of marketing and business analytics at Northern...
14-Aug-2024 9:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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How feeding birds may be polluting local environments

New research shows that backyard bird feeders, although done with the best of intentions, is changing the chemistry of local ecosystems, including introducing a potentially harmful amount of phosphorus into the environment.
7-Aug-2024 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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How a warming Arctic is accelerating global climate change

Three recent papers authored by Ted Schuur, Regents’ professor of biological sciences at Northern Arizona University, organized through the Permafrost Carbon Network, investigate the biological processes taking place in the warming Arctic tundra...
29-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Trees reveal a climate surprise—their bark removes methane from the atmosphere

Microbes that live in tree bark are sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, making trees an even more critical part of combating climate change than scientists previously thought, according to a study published today in Nature.
23-Jul-2024 7:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites


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