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The odds of high-severity wildfire were nearly one-and-a-half times higher on industrial private land than on publicly owned forests, a new study found. Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the understory to the canopy.

The explosion of a massive star locked in a deadly orbit with a black hole has been discovered with the help of artificial intelligence used by an astronomy collaboration led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, that hunts for stars shortly after they explode as supernovae.

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. 

Researchers at Penn State develop a wearable sensor that can accurately measure the chloride ion levels of sweat in real time.

Chemical engineering student’s research extracts rare earth minerals from phosphogypsum — manmade lakes of radioactive, toxic waste.