Key agreements in the “Law of the River,” which encompasses more than 100 years of regulations, laws, court decisions and more focused on managing the Colorado River, are set to expire next year. First established in 1922 as the Colorado River Compact, the guidelines split water management and allocation among seven states. Now, those states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming — are renegotiating the terms of use for the water. Drought, increased temperatures and decreased snowpack in the Rocky Mountains are complicating the matter, according to Antonia Hadjimichael, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State.  

A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of one of the mountain’s most iconic glaciers is so close to the melting point.

Houston Methodist re-evaluates penicillin allergies through an adapted screening tool that nurses can use at the bedside. The cross-specialties collaboration in a major academic medical center provides a fast and effective pathway to delabel medical charts when appropriate so that patients without true penicillin allergies can be given the most effective antibiotics without delay. 

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract. It includes conditions such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. In this expert alert, Amanda Johnson, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic, helps explain IBD and whether diet can help.

Plenty of researchers already study how to tell if online writing bears the traits of artificial intelligence — but Michael Laudenbach, at NJIT’s Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts, is studying what traits indicate that digital prose was crafted by analog humans.

The risk of not knowing the difference is that if instructors and business managers too openly adopt AI writing tools, then children and college students might wrongly learn that AI writing is good writing, Laudenbach said. Even though some people are bad writers, at least what they’re writing is their original thoughts.

Mizzou sports management expert Michelle Brimecombe takes a deep dive into the billion-dollar engine behind the NCAA’s biggest tournament.

In the midst of AI’s acceleration, NYU Professor Meredith Broussard talks about the technology in order to illuminate its foundational elements and to point to ways to use it to our benefit.