An aerial view shows damaged houses in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 28, 2024 after the passage of Hurricane Helene. Millions of Americans were still without power and many faced torrential flooding on Saturday, authorities said, as powerful storm Helene rumbled across eastern and midwestern US states, leaving at least 44 people dead. At least … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Small plastic particles are everywhere: in the soil where our food is grown, in the water we drink and in the air we breathe. They got there from the plastic we throw away, which ends up in landfill sites, rivers and seas. There the plastic waste slowly breaks down, releasing tiny … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Owning a home in Southern California isn’t just a dream for humans. Apparently, the bears want in on the market too. Just ask residents and city officials in Sierra Madre, who in the last few years have seen their furry, four-legged neighbors amble out of the forest and barge into their … Read more
PAUcam camera installed in the primary focus of the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Spain. Credit: PAUS team The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, has covered a sky area of 50 square degrees, similar to approximately 250 full moons. It was able to determine galaxy … Read more
Pesquet is a national icon in France for his missions to the International Space Station (ISS). Europe has embarked on the mission to put humans back on the moon with a new lunar simulator launched in Germany, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP. Pesquet was at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne on Wednesday … Read more
A juvenile hybrid langur in Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh. One can easily recognized the mixture of morphological characters. For examplethe white eye rings of the Phayre’s langurs and the golden-brown breast hair of the capped langurs. Credit: Auritro Sattar, Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH Research shows a threatening development for two endangered primate species in Bangladesh: Phayre’s … Read more
(a) The micro-examination and (b)–(e) SEM observations of the surface of MLI after collided by CE5 LS particles; (f) the micro-examination and (g)–(h) SEM observations of the surface of Aramid cloth after impacted by CE5 LS particles. Credit: Junping Gu et al. A study published in Engineering has shed new light on the behavior of … Read more
(a) Illustration of glucose metabolism. FADH2: flavin adenine dinucleotide (reduced form), FAD: flavin adenine dinucleotide, ATP: adenosine triphosphate, ADP: adenosine diphosphate; (b, c) KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of CWs during Stages (b) Ⅲ and (c) Ⅳ; (d, e) heatmap comparing abundance of genes related to carbon metabolism in CWs; (d, e) genes involved in (d) … Read more
(a–c) Examples of CSSSs utilizing disordered photonic chips with brute force and random selection of structural parameters. (d–g) Spectrum reconstruction by four randomly designed spectrometers (S1–S4). Credit: Ang Li et al. In a study published in Engineering, researchers from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Zhejiang University have unveiled a pioneering approach to designing … Read more
The ML-based framework for the MOO design of RHEAs. Credit: Cheng Wen et al. In a study recently published in Engineering, scientists from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Guangdong Ocean University, and AiMaterials Research LLC have demonstrated a novel method to accelerate the discovery of refractory high-entropy alloys (RHEAs) compositions optimized for extreme … Read more
