SMU News – While studying a nearby pair of merging galaxies using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)— an international observatory co-operated by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)— scientists discovered two supermassive black holes growing simultaneously near the center of the newly coalescing galaxy. These super-hungry giants are the closest […]
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Dedman College News- Here are some of the Dedman College 2022 research highlights. For the full article please visit SMU News: A study led by fire anthropologist Christopher Roos suggests bringing “good fire” back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once did, could potentially blunt the role of climate in triggering today’s […]
SMU News- The dominant tree species belonged within the legume family, which includes beans, peas, and giant trees in tropical forests. “We have estimated the lake beds that contain the fossils were present for about 50,000 to 60,000 years,” said Bonnie Jacobs, an emeritus professor and paleobotanist at SMU (Southern Methodist University) and a co-author […]
SMU News – A new study from SMU (Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and UC3M (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) found that the group people identify with tends to play a bigger factor in secession than differences in per capita income between regions. Identity was shown to be a larger factor than income for many […]
Newsweek – Ancient Native American populations may have “back-migrated” into northeastern Asia, findings from a study published in the journal Current Biology indicate. The paper sheds light on the history of human migration between Asia and North America and how ancient peoples in the region mixed. There is a consensus among scientists that the Americas […]
Texas Monthly – Rick Halperin, director of the SMU Dallas Human Rights Program, for a opinion piece that condemns capital punishment and the practice of lethal injection in Texas and elsewhere. READ MORE
Axios – The new Dirk Nowitzki statue, unveiled outside the American Airlines Center on Christmas Day, is one of the coolest sports statues ever — especially compared to some of the dismal tributes to athletes recently erected in other parts of the world. The very big picture: The 24-foot, 9,000-pound sculpture, designed by artist Omri […]
Dallas Morning News – Dallas scientists say the comet takes 50,000 years to make a trip around the sun. A bright-green comet that has not been seen since the last ice age will be visible in D-FW skies later this month. The comet, called C/2022 E3 (ZTF), was discovered by astronomers at the Zwicky Transient […]
Psychology Today It’s not just stories, jokes, and songs: personal memories can be purloined too. Last summer I accused my husband of stealing my memory. We were preparing to take our kids to a zip-line adventure park with another family, and my husband informed us that the only time he had been on a zip line […]
DC Journal – Opinion Piece by Jo Guldi, a professor of history and a faculty member of the Data Science Institute at Southern Methodist University. Guldi is the author of “The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights.” A month ago, COP 27 (the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference) had its last session. What […]