A new online exhibit from Florida State University’s Institute on World War II and the Human Experience highlights the lives of American women during the war. “Women at War: At Home and Service in World War II” was initially scheduled to open in April at the Chipola Center for the Arts at Chipola College in Marianna, Fla., but moved to an online platform in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A dramatic oil spill, such as the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Gulf of Mexico a decade ago, can dominate headlines for months while scientists, policymakers and the public fret over what happens to all that oil in the environment. However, far less attention is paid to the fate of a petroleum product that has been spread deliberately across the planet for decades: asphalt binder.
New research shows that one of the heaviest known elements can be manipulated to a greater degree than previously thought, potentially paving the way for new strategies to recycle nuclear fuel and better long-term storage of radioactive elements. An international team of researchers has demonstrated how curium — element 96 in the periodic table and one of the last that can be seen with the naked eye — responds to the application of high pressure created by squeezing a sample between two diamonds.
A genomic mapping technique developed in part at Florida State University has played a crucial role in a new study aimed understanding growth in corn, a major U.S. crop. The technique, called chromatin sensitivity profiling, has been refined by professor of biological science Hank Bass and colleagues at FSU over the last decade. They used it to help a team of researchers, led by Andrea Eveland, Ph.D., assistant member of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis, in mapping the maize genome during an early developmental stage critical to plant yield.
The newly installed seismometer at Florida State University’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science is already helping scientists detect and analyze earthquakes around the globe.
