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Earth will cross warming threshold this decade: Study
The Hill

Earth will cross warming threshold this decade: Study

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that current obstacles to decarbonizing the global economy are political, not physical or technological.

The alchemy behind the diamond: Unearthing baseball’s beloved mud
Shravan Pradeep places a baseball on microscopy slide.

Postdoctoral researcher Shravan Pradeep of Penn Engineering is conducting experiments to understand the flow and grip properties of the Major League Baseball’s “magic mud” in order to reverse engineer the mud and offer a mechanistic understanding of its inner workings.

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The alchemy behind the diamond: Unearthing baseball’s beloved mud

Researchers at Penn are working on cracking the code behind Major League Baseball’s “Magic Mud.”
What’s so ‘magic’ about the secret South Jersey mud rubbed on baseballs? These Penn researchers think they know why
Philadelphia Inquirer

What’s so ‘magic’ about the secret South Jersey mud rubbed on baseballs? These Penn researchers think they know why

Doug Jerolmack of the School of Arts & Sciences, Paulo Arratia of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, and colleagues are researching the chemical properties of baseball’s “magic mud” for use in applications beyond sports.

How do you prepare a city like New York for major floods?
Vox.com

How do you prepare a city like New York for major floods?

Michael Mann of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the western, central, and eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia are all susceptible to heavy rainfall impacts from climate change.