Hi-C distribution map, genome features, and gene annotation of the XQC genome. Credit: Horticulture Research ‘Vanilla’ (XQC, brassica variety chinensis), a Brassica rapa subspecies chinensis, is a vital vegetable crop in the Brassicaceae family, renowned for its intense volatile fragrance. Despite the significant progress that has been made in understanding the genomes of Brassica species, … Read more
Managed honey bees. Credit: Bianca Ackermann, public domain There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in the Americas, Oceania and eastern Asia, where it is introduced. Collectively, these hives produce … Read more
Muonspectrometer of ATLAS. Credit: CERN / Science Photo Library. High-energy neutrinos are extremely rare particles that have so far proved very difficult to detect. Fluxes of these rare particles were first detected by the IceCube Collaboration back in 2013. Recent papers featured in Physical Review D and The Astrophysical Journal Letters found that galactic supernovae … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In Colorado, people flock to the Rocky Mountains when the summer heat gets unbearable. Animals seek shelter too when temperatures become extreme, and forests serve as critical sanctuaries for small tree-dwelling animals like lizards. In a new study published March 5 in the journal Nature Climate Change, scientists from the University … Read more
Mount Fuji is covered in snow most of the year. Hikers using the most popular route to climb Japan’s Mount Fuji will be charged $13 each from July, with numbers capped to ease congestion and improve safety, a regional official said Tuesday. Increasingly large crowds are scaling Japan’s highest mountain, which is covered in snow … Read more
Graphical representation of the three functional blocks put in series in the ensemble GeoAI architecture implemented to study the impact of different land-use classes on the spatial distribution of the risk of PM2.5 pollution concentration. Credit: Chemosphere (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2024.141438 A research study from Politecnico di Milano in the journal Chemosphere has quantified the impact … Read more
Researchers embedded a liquid crystal layer into a waveguide that was created with direct laser writing (pictured). The resulting hybrid device can be used to change the polarization of light traveling through the waveguide. Credit: GRK 2101, Friedrich Schiller University Jena Researchers have developed a new way to control and manipulate optical signals by embedding … Read more
Study shows that the engagement of African women and young people in agricultural service provision is ‘not a panacea to the challenges they face’ such as limited decision-making in production and income. Credit: CABI The role of African women and young people engaged in agricultural service provision has been investigated in a new CABI-led study … Read more
Credit: Sabrina J. Kainz If you’ve driven the mostly flat stretch of I-25 in Colorado from Pueblo to Trinidad, you’ve seen them: the Spanish Peaks, twin mountains that soar into the sky out of nowhere, reaching altitudes of 13,628 and 12,701 feet above sea level. In a new study, geologists from CU Boulder have laid … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research by The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA) and the University of Nottingham shows that providing balanced, contextualized risk warnings resulted in an approximately 14% increase in cash invested in stocks and shares. Women responded by increasing their investments the most, so reformulated risk warnings could help close the gender … Read more
