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November 14, 2017

Sweating cities: Those with green infrastructure, vegetation better at cooling than concrete jungles

10/25/2017 | As Earth’s climate continues to warm, the urban heat island effect raises concerns that city-dwellers will suffer more heat stress than their rural counterparts. However, new research suggests...

November 14, 2017

Wikipedia’s 1%: Purdue study reveals most content is from small group of editors

11/6/2017 | The mysterious world of Wikipedia isn’t such a mystery anymore to a pair of researchers who conducted a 10-year study on the free online encyclopedia. Sorin Adam Matei,...

November 14, 2017

AI system at Purdue detects cracks in nuclear reactors

11/6/2017 | A system under development at Purdue University uses artificial intelligence to detect cracks captured in videos of nuclear reactors and represents a future inspection technology to help reduce...

November 14, 2017

Research shows ice sheets as large as Greenland’s melted fast in a warming climate

11/9/2017 | New research published in Science shows that climate warming reduced the mass of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet by half in as little as 500 years, indicating the Greenland...

October 18, 2017

Video: Purdue’s nuclear reactor is open for tours

October 18, 2017 | Did you know Purdue has the first and only operating nuclear reactor in Indiana? Purdue University Reactor Number 1 (PUR-1) recently underwent major renovations and is...

October 18, 2017

Video: Tour the Bechtel Innovation Design Center

September 25, 2017 | The Bechtel Innovation Design Center, a state-of-the-art facility with workspace for student projects, was dedicated September 23, 2017. Located at the corner of Third and Russell...

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