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Startup Licenses UA-Invented Mining Sensor Network

At the core of the system is the ability to sense a miner’s location and body temperature, predict potential problems and recommend steps to avert health risks.

University of Arizona startup GUIA has licensed a mining communication and sensor platform developed by faculty in the UA’s College of Engineering and Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources. While the team’s initial focus for this “internet of things” system is mining, the company is looking to apply the technology to a number of other environments. (more…)

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Ancient shellfish remains rewrite 10,000-year history of El Niño cycles

The planet’s largest and most powerful driver of climate changes from one year to the next, the El Niño Southern Oscillation in the tropical Pacific Ocean, was widely thought to have been weaker in ancient times because of a different configuration of the Earth’s orbit. But scientists analyzing 25-foot piles of ancient shells have found that the El Niños 10,000 years ago were as strong and frequent as the ones we experience today. (more…)

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