Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that can improve the lives of Americans are still ongoing, thanks to the help and insight of UNM’s Center for Social Policy (CSP.) CSP Director and Political Science Professor Gabriel Sanchez and Ph.D. candidate Melanie Sayuri Dominguez just published research with one of these major … Read more
A figure depicting global surface temperature anomalies in 2023. Credit: C3S/ECMWF In 2015, most countries, including Canada, signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement which set the objective of “holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing the limit of 1.5 C to significantly reduce the … Read more
Scientists from Qingdao University of Science and Technology developed a novel path to synthesize atomically precise, water-soluble alloy nanoclusters. Credit: Xun Yuan, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology In recent years, ultrasmall metal nanoclusters have unlocked advances in fields ranging from bioimaging and biosensing to biotherapy, thanks to their … Read more
The new snow storm in Iowa comes atop a previous wave of winter weather earlier in the week. A powerful storm that could strengthen into a so-called bomb cyclone pummeled north and central parts of the United States on Friday, with heavy snow derailing campaigning for the important Iowa caucus. Several inches of snow were … Read more
Carpobrotus. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some invasive plants can form persistent banks of seeds that remain under the soil for years, and this makes their eradication practically impossible. Over time, this invisible population of large quantities of living, buried plants—in seed form—will reoccupy ecosystems and displace the typical flora of the natural environment. This is … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astrobotic’s damaged Peregrine lander managed to send data back from all nine of its interfacing payloads over the three days it’s been hurtling through space, the company said. An additional payload received power, making for a full demonstration of the startup’s first lander, aside from the fact that none of the … Read more
The positions of these water molecules are often important for understanding protein flexibility and the ability of drug-like molecules to influence protein structure and function. In this study, different unique waters appeared at the surface of the protein under different experimental perturbations such as high temperature (red), high pressure (green), or default conditions (blue), offering … Read more
Credit: University of Malaga An international scientific team including more than 40 authors from seven different countries, led by a researcher at the University of Malaga Juan Pascual Anaya, has managed to sequence the first genome of the myxini, also known as hagfish, the only large group of vertebrates for which there has been no … Read more
A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E. Credit: DALL-E / Harrison Tasoff The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours. A young moon looms large over the desolate landscape. No animals scurry in the waning light. No leaves rustle … Read more
Toxic algae blooms on the water surface. Credit: FAU Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Florida’s 156-mile-long Indian River Lagoon (IRL) borders five different counties and has five inlets that connect the lagoon with the Atlantic Ocean. This estuary has recently experienced numerous phytoplankton bloom events due to increased seasonal temperatures and environmental impacts. Algal blooms produce … Read more
