Haitian elementary school students learn to read in their classroom as part of literacy intervention efforts to improve learning outcomes. Credit: University of Notre Dame A new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers makes a significant contribution to understanding the factors that influence how young elementary school students respond to reading … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new paper published in The Quarterly Review of Biology examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology—habituation and neural adaptation—on the efficacy of mate choice signals. In “A Bridge between Animal Psychology and Sexual Selection: Possible Effects of Habituation and Neural … Read more
Credit: New Phytologist (2024). DOI: 10.1111/nph.19561 International research co-authored by Joshua Fisher, associate professor in Chapman University’s Schmid College of Science and Technology, suggests that studying root function in tropical forests could help vegetation models improve predictions of climate change. The study was published on Feb. 28 in New Phytologist. When it comes to understanding … Read more
A sampled image at full extent (top) and for a smaller inset area (bottom) featuring clearly discernible land covers and road infrastructure. Credit: Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.3390/rs16050839 Satellite images analyzed by AI are emerging as a new tool in finding unmapped roads that bring environmental destruction to wilderness areas. James Cook University’s Distinguished Professor … Read more
The merging of two supermassive black holes is a phenomenon that has long been predicted, though never directly observed. One theory put forth by astronomers is that these systems are so massive that they deplete their host galaxy of the stellar material needed to drive their merger. Using archival data from the Gemini North telescope, … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After many predictions, on September 19, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology formally announced an El Niño for the summer of 2023/2024, several months after it had been declared by other international meteorological agencies. And while forecasts warned of a summer of increased heat waves and fire hazards, you could be forgiven … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain African countries will suffer significant economic loss after 2050 if global warming is not limited to below 2°C, a new study by the Center for Global Development has found. Environment and energy economist Philip Kofi Adom is the author of the report. He synchronized many years of research by climate change … Read more
DFT simulations. a, Molecular structures of different diazonium salts. b, The relationship between the theoretical valence of the whole (6 × 6) Cu supercell and the electro-withdrawing ability of different substitutes on phenyl according to Hammett parameters21,22. c, Heat map of the valence of the top Cu atoms near the NN functional group calculated considering explicit water. … Read more
Drought devastated the Brazilian Amazon between June and November last year. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon this month, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. Brazil’s INPE space research institute said Wednesday its satellites had picked up … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star exactly where planets may be forming. Water is a key ingredient for life on Earth and is also thought to play a significant role in planet formation, yet until now, astronomers have never been able to map how water … Read more
