Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain China’s economy, long an engine of world growth, has been sputtering lately. During the second quarter of 2024, it grew at an annual rate of 4.7%—down from an average 7% a year during the past decade. For the next two years, the International Monetary Fund forecasts more of the same. Analysts … Read more
Transcriptional and metabolic patterns associated with fruit color. Credit: Horticulture Research Unlocking the genetic secrets of mulberry anthocyanin content, a study illuminates the regulatory mechanisms that dictate fruit color and nutritional quality. By assembling and analyzing the genomes of two distinct mulberry cultivars, researchers have pinpointed key genetic variations and the pivotal role of MaVHAG3 … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new discussion paper from the Monash Center for Youth Policy and Education Practice (CYPEP) explores positive opportunities to engage young people in volunteering. As Australia faces a shortage of volunteers, and volunteering organizations find it difficult to attract and engage young people, this discussion paper examines how and why young … Read more
An illustration of a common redpoll. Credit: Liz Clayton Fuller This week, birders around the world lost one beloved feathered creature from their birding life list. Fortunately, no species went extinct. Instead, this change resolved a long-held misunderstanding about the redpoll finch. On Thursday, the American Ornithological Society—the organization that oversees bird taxonomy—announced that the … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The idea of eating aquatic plants might sound unappetizing at first. However, in certain regions of South East Asia, farm animals and humans have been eating a small plant called duckweed for decades. As researchers in food science, we propose shedding some light on the fascinating world of these little-known plants … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The next full moon will be Sunday morning, July 21, 2024, appearing opposite the sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 6:17 AM EDT. For the International Date Line West and the American Samoa and Midway time zones this will be late Saturday night. For Line Islands Time this will be early Monday … Read more
This photo provided by NASA, taken from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour, shows the International Space Station on Nov. 8, 2021. NASA and SpaceX discussed plans on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, to shove the International Space Station out of orbit and steer it toward a watery grave in the next decade. Credit: NASA via AP … Read more
Stratigraphy in cores across the marsh at Cheesequake State Park with lithostratigraphic correlations between cores. Credit: Journal of Quaternary Science (2024). DOI: 10.1002/jqs.3622 A Rutgers University-New Brunswick-led research team employing an emerging technique to detect signs of past hurricanes in coastal sediments has found evidence of storms dating back more than 400 years. In doing … Read more
Location of the skeletons found in room A. Credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park. Almost 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger wrote letters describing the shaking ground as Vesuvius erupted. Now, a collaborative study led by researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Pompeii Archaeological Park has shed light on the effects of … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have recently released a study in Ecology and Evolution outlining their in-depth analysis of historic baleen plates, the comb structures that are used by some species of whales to filter food, from Southern Hemisphere blue and fin whales. The research was conducted using samples collected in the late 1940s that … Read more
