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How to build a Qing Dynasty bed

11.9.22

Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China

11.9.22 |

Research from the laboratory of archaeologist Xinyi Liu in Arts & Sciences shows that a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted to help cultivate wheat in northern China about 4,000 years ago.

11.7.22

Benson wins Cave Canem Poetry Prize

11.3.22

Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around black hole

11.3.22 |

New measurements from Cygnus X-1, reported Nov. 3 in the journal Science, represent the first observations of a mass-accreting black hole from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, an international collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency. The lead author of the new study is physicist Henric Krawczynski in Arts & Sciences.

11.2.22

Worsening racial inequality in home appraisals detailed in new report

11.2.22 |

Using data from the newly released Uniform Appraisal Dataset, which includes 47.3 million home appraisals conducted over the last decade, WashU’s Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Junia Howell of the University of Illinois Chicago demonstrate stark inequalities in appraisal values between homes in white neighborhoods and communities of color.

11.1.22

Are bots winning the war to control social media?

11.1.22

The power of persistence

10.26.22

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How to build a Qing Dynasty bed

Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China

Benson wins Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Polarized X-rays reveal shape, orientation of extremely hot matter around black hole

Worsening racial inequality in home appraisals detailed in new report

Are bots winning the war to control social media?

The power of persistence

Translation as duet: Faculty collaboration brings Göritz’s first book of poems to English readers

The microhistory of an English village

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