by admin | Oct 6, 2023 | News
Have you ever wondered why some people get really sick with COVID while others have hardly a sniffle, or are completely asymptomatic when exposed to the disease? The answer lies in their genetics. Researchers have uncovered that the key to avoiding illness is carrying...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | News
A couple of days ago, an extraterrestrial capsule landed in the Utah desert. Yes, really! The OSIRIS-REx (“Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer”) capsule returned, bringing back NASA’s first-ever asteroid samples,...
by admin | Sep 21, 2023 | News
Heavy rainfall from Cyclone Daniel, the deadliest and costliest Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone in recorded history, led to catastrophic flooding and destruction in Libya a few weeks ago. Thousands of people died, with 10,000 more still missing. However, it wasn’t...
by admin | Sep 14, 2023 | News
As fall arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, many people will either be participating in sports or attending sporting events (e.g., football games). Did you know that, globally, sports contribute the same level of emissions as a medium-sized country? From...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | News
Traffic. We’ve all been in it. But why does it happen? Aside from construction and accidents causing it, doesn’t it seem like sometimes traffic happens for no good reason? Indeed, ‘phantom’ or ‘shockwave’ traffic jams, caused by a chain reaction of slowing down, do...
by admin | Sep 7, 2023 | News
For decades, Antarctic sea ice seemed to be immune to climate change – growing in places and staying steady in others – while Arctic sea ice has seen serious decline. But this came to an end in 2016, with significant decreases to the sea ice. In fact, 2017 has a...
by admin | Aug 23, 2023 | News
This past weekend, California was under warning. Not for an earthquake or wildfire, but for an approaching hurricane! It’s been 80 years since a tropical storm has made landfall in California, when a storm called El Cordonazo scored a direct hit on Los Angeles. As...
by admin | Aug 16, 2023 | News
Summer in the Northern Hemisphere has seen a trail of devastation left behind: wildfires scorching Hawaii, Canada and Portugal; drought plaguing Indonesia for four, long hot months; marine heat waves occurring in 40% of the world’s oceans, the most since satellite...
by admin | Aug 9, 2023 | News
Have you ever walked into a workplace, shopping mall, or movie theater in the heat of summer and find that you need to wear an extra layer, because the air conditioning is too cold? Researchers have calculated that air conditioning is responsible for 2 billion tons of...
by admin | Aug 3, 2023 | News
To accompany Florida’s state highpoint (Britton Hill), here is a new Science Wednesday short video on sharks. A new movie, Meg 2: The Trench, is out in theaters in a couple of days, about the megalodon shark. Get the facts in my new science video! How old is...
by admin | Jul 20, 2023 | Press
Glaciologist Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña is the head of communications for the University of Colorado Boulder’s Climate Adaptation Science Center. Her research has covered the growth of supraglacial lakes and flooding on Himalayan glaciers, as well as the impacts of...
by admin | Jul 20, 2023 | Press
Across Antarctica, you’ll find no shortage of places, landmarks, and even animals named after women: Queen Elizabeth Land, Una’s Peaks, and the Adélie penguin, among them. But it’s not a reflection of the many scientific accomplishments by women in the...
by admin | Jul 20, 2023 | News
Millions of people are feeling the heat – literally – from relentless heat waves this summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Smoky skies from wildfires are aggravating certain health conditions. Flooding is damaging communities and people are losing their lives and their...
by admin | Jul 13, 2023 | News
Located about 50 miles northwest of Columbus, Ohio, Campbell Hill, at 1,549 feet, is Ohio’s state highpoint. The “hill” is actually a glacial moraine, left behind by the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet that covered millions of square miles of Canada and the Northern...
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
The most amazing stories known to man – the crash of flight 571. Never before known facts told by survivors. And current day, active investigation returning to the crash site with a survivor, finding remnants from that fateful ordeal. Airing as a TV special in...
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
Dr. Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña is a scientist, part-time professor, mountaineer and explorer. However, as you’ll soon learn, those tags only reveal a fraction of who she is and what she does. Read more here on life as a scientific explorer and educator.
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
A celebration of the mountaineers, arctic explorers, activists, and artists who redefine the limits of what’s humanly possible. Read here in Men’s Journal.
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
Westlake is working with Colorado climate scientist, mountaineer and educator Ulyana Horodyskyj Pena to collect ice and snow samples on K2. Because of the challenges of gathering samples, Westlake’s trip up K2 will be the first expedition in which data will be...
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
We had the good fortune of connecting with Ulyana Horodyskyj and we’ve shared our conversation. Hi Ulyana, how do you think about risk? I believe that risk-taking is necessary in order to pursue and achieve goals. Risk is something constantly on my mind, too, given I...
by admin | Jul 9, 2023 | Press
In this SelectScience interview, we speak with Ulyana Nadia Horodyskyj, founder of Science in the Wild, an initiative that gives the public a chance to participate in immersive and educational adventure citizen science expeditions around the world – ranging from...
