ambient

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University of Houston researchers have achieved a major superconductivity breakthrough by setting a new temperature record for superconductors operating under ambient pressure conditions.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Researchers adapted a technique widely used to study heat and human health to establish the first "statistically validated association between ambient temperature and koala mortality", the study said.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Two toxic air contaminants present in California’s ambient air, acrolein and ethylene oxide, appear to be much stronger carcinogens than previously known, California environmental health officials announced Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Layers of equipment, from real medical devices to whiteboards scribbled with a patients’ statuses, add to the ambient authenticity of a set built like an open emergency department, not a television soundstage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

These include not only all of the genres of music, the verbal languages, and accents, but also the mechanical, digital, human, and animal noises, and all of the ambient sounds around us.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin