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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university. UT serves the state, the nation, and the world by educating students, enhancing culture, and making a difference in people’s lives through research and service. The university’s world-class faculty and broad-ranging partnerships, including its relationship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, play a critical role in attracting top students.

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Los campos de la Copa del Mundo sufren mucho desgaste. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Así diseñamos el césped para la mayor Copa del Mundo de fútbol de la historia

Para crear el terreno de juego perfecto en climas tan diferentes como el de México y el de Canadá, se necesitan los céspedes adecuados y algunos trucos creativos.
Garantir que campos em estádios abertos e fechados espalhados em três países e em zonas climáticas bem diferentes ofereçam a mesma sensação para os jogadores e que a grama cresça bem parecia um desafio impossível no início. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

Especialistas contam como desenvolveram os gramados que serão usados nos estádios da Copa do Mundo de 2026

Os novos campos de jogo estão sendo instalados em estádios do México ao Canadá. Criar o campo perfeito em climas muito diferentes exige as gramíneas certas e alguns truques criativos.
Seagrass has made an unexpected return to Mosquito Lagoon. Captain William B. Wolfson, Grassroots Guide Service, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Hurricanes devastated Florida’s East Coast – then seagrass made an unexpected comeback

After years of collapse, seagrass in Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon rebounded unexpectedly following 2022 hurricanes, offering new insight into ecosystem resilience.
World Cup pitches take a beating. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue

We designed the turf for soccer’s biggest World Cup ever – here’s how we created the same playing experience across 3 countries

The new playing fields are rolling out in stadiums from Mexico to Canada. Creating the perfect pitch in very different climates requires the right grasses and some creative tricks.
Many older adults rely on electric-powered medical equipment, such as portable oxygen and nebulizers that help them breathe. Westend61 via Getty Images

Power outages in heat waves and storms can threaten the lives of medical device users – we looked at who is most at risk

Premature deaths rise during long-term blackouts, and ERs fill up. Knowing who is at risk and some creative solutions can help.
Technological innovation has always relied on experts collaborating across time and geography. EtiAmmos/iStock via Getty Images

Will AI accelerate or undermine the way humans have always innovated?

An anthropologist’s new book lays out the formula for human innovation, from stone tools to supercomputers. Depending on developments in the next few years, AI could hit the gas or the brakes.
Warmer winters in normally snowy places can interfere with the important activities of microbes in the soil. Seogi/500px via Getty Images

Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub

Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
A young George Washington was thrust into the dense, contested wilderness of the Ohio River Valley as a land surveyor for real estate development companies in Virginia. Henry Hintermeister/Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

How a 22‑year‑old George Washington learned how to lead, from a series of mistakes in the Pennsylvania wilderness

Washington’s fundamental character as a military leader was forged in the Ohio River Valley, where he also inadvertently helped ignite the French and Indian War.
‘Blood Pond Hell 'detail depicted in a 1940 Taipei Hell Scroll. The Trustees of the British Museum

How women are reinterpreting the menstrual taboos in Chinese Buddhism

In some cultures, menstruation and childbirth are treated as polluting, not life-giving. One Buddhist text’s interpretation of ‘Blood Pond Hell’ shows how far such beliefs go – and how women respond.
U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, a Democrat who represents portions of central Louisiana in the House, could lose his seat if the Supreme Court invalidates Louisiana’s congressional map. AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains

The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Americans.
Ilustasi dari manuskrip Vernon pada tahun 1400-an. Manuskrip ini menunjukkan motif familiar dari lembu dan keledai yang memerhatikan bayi Yesus. © Perpustakaan Bodleian, Universitas Oxford

Alkitab sedikit menceritakan masa kecil Yesus, tapi umat kristen abad pertengahan menikmati kisah yang menggambarkannya sebagai sosok suci yang “nakal”

Legenda mengenai masa-masa awal kehidupan Yesus yang tersebar di Eropa Abad pertengahan seringkali berangkat dari teks-teks apokrif yang beredar.

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