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Machine learning helps predict endangered plant species
A new analytics approach co-developed by Bryan Carstens, professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology, identifies 15,000 at-risk plant species.
Five Arts and Sciences faculty named 2018 AAAS Fellows
Five Arts and Sciences faculty members have been elected as 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — a prestigious honor bestowed upon AAAS members who are…
Team involving Ohio State astronomer gets a close-up look at the whirlpool around gigantic black hole
For the first time, astronomers peered into the outskirts of the supermassive black hole at the center of quasar 3C 273.
Presidential Fellow looks to the future – and the past
Colleen Cheverko has always been fascinated by the study of humans, but it wasn’t until halfway through her undergraduate career that she decided to study anthropology. Now, with a completed…
Astronomy professor's research advances technology looking for signs of alien life
Ji Wang, assistant professor of astronomy, recently led research that used high-dispersion spectroscopy to analyze the atmosphere of a gaseous exoplanet 129 light-years away. This technique…
Hubbe's research on skeletons reveals ancient population exchanges between North and South America
A study produced by an international team of researchers, including Mark Hubbe, associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, sheds light on how ancient North American populations migrated…
Did Ohio State really detect an alien signal?
Though the pursuit of aliens has largely come up empty, one strange discovery recorded by an Ohio State astronomer in 1977 continues to baffle scientists and stoke imaginations that maybe we aren't…
Ohio State astronomer helps detect historical stellar merger event
R. Mark Wagner, a research scientist in the Department of Astronomy, was part of an international team that identified an hourglass-shaped cloud floating in space as remnants of a 348-year-old…
Undergraduate’s love of nature and history fuels research in environmental archaeology
When Catherine Mendel was young, she would flip through her parents’ encyclopedia collection to the sections on world archaeology, dreaming of one day becoming an archaeologist herself. Years later,…