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FAU Study Reveals Most Important Factors in Selecting Campsites

By | June 23, 2021

What makes the consummate campsite? Price and availability of electricity are the main factors, with proximity to a body of water and canyon views less important.

Language Trade-off? No, Bilingual Children Acquire English by Age 5

By | June 23, 2021

A first-of-its kind study in U.S.-born children from Spanish-speaking families finds that minority dual language exposure does not threaten the reliable acquisition of English by children in the U.S.

Study on Traffic Deaths Makes Strong Case for Remote Work

By | June 16, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked renewed interest in remote work arrangements, which also could help improve occupational and traffic safety.

Machine-learned Human Emotions Will 'Drive' Autonomous Vehicles

By | June 16, 2021

A unique invention by a researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science based on machine-learned human moods for autonomous systems has received a competitive U.S. utility patent.

Sellers Call the Shots in Florida's Overvalued Housing Market

By | June 10, 2021

Homes across Florida are selling for more than 17 percent above their long-term pricing trend, with the degree of overpricing a particular concern in the Tampa Bay metropolitan area.

Alarming Rising Trends in Suicide by Firearms in Young Americans

By | June 9, 2021

Researchers from the Schmidt College of Medicine and collaborators examined suicide trends by firearms in white and black Americans ages 5 to 24 years from 1999 to 2018.

$10 Million Gift to Name the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute

By | June 8, 2021

A near-$10 million to Florida Atlantic University from David J. S. Nicholson will welcome an era of unprecedented research, education and discovery at FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupiter.

Index Spotlights Where Home Prices are Rising the Fastest

By | June 3, 2021

Home prices are escalating quickly in Dallas and a handful of other U.S. cities where consumers would be better off by renting and reinvesting the money they would otherwise have spent on homeownership.

Consumers Feeling the Effects of Materials Shortages

By | June 1, 2021

Consumers looking for new and used cars and other big-ticket items or even small conveniences such as ketchup packets will have to be patient in the coming months.

Sargassum Now World's Largest Harmful Algal Bloom Due to Nitrogen

By | May 24, 2021

FAU Harbor Branch scientists have discovered that a surge in nitrogen worldwide has dramatically changed the chemistry and composition of Sargassum, floating brown seaweed, turning it into a toxic "dead zone."