David Rosch teaching a class at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Credit: College of ACES Colleges and universities often highlight leadership development as a critical component of their curriculum—but there is no clear consensus on what constitutes effective leadership education. In a new paper, two educators from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and John Carroll … Read more
Snapshot taken by SLAC’s high-speed electron camera, an instrument for ultrafast electron diffraction (MeV-UED), showing evidence of circular polarization of terahertz light by an ultrathin sample of tungsten ditelluride. Credit: Nano Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c00758 While taking snapshots with the high-speed electron camera at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Acceleratory Laboratory, researchers discovered new … Read more
Anastasiia Murmiliuk at the small-angle scattering diffractometer KWS-2 of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ) in Garching at the rheometer. The MLZ is home to the largest branch of the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science. Credit: Bernhard Ludewig, FRM II / TUM Up to 3% of people with diabetes have an allergic reaction to insulin. A … Read more
Credit: Vlad Fonsark from Pexels While millions of Americans vacation on beaches every year to seek out sun, sand and the sea, many might not realize how dangerous digging holes in the sand can be. In February 2024, a 7-year-old girl died after an approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) hole she and her brother dug in the … Read more
Relationship between the elevation of shorebird habitat and flooding risk under SLR. a, Map of study islands Terschelling (T), Ameland (A) and Schiermonnikoog (S) in the western Wadden Sea. b, The relationship between the elevation of the breeding habitat on the tidal marsh and the probability that it will flood at least once during the … Read more
Albino rice plants created with TnpB by disrupting the gene responsible for green color production. Credit: Kutubuddin Molla and Subhasis Karmakar Genome editing stands as one of the most transformative scientific breakthroughs of our time. It allows us to dive into the very code of life and make precise modifications. Imagine being able to rewrite … Read more
Schematic representation of the evolution of the Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait through the Paleogene. Abbreviations: Pre-Ungava Transform Margin (Pre-UTM), Davis Strait proto-microcontinent (DSPM), Ungava Fracture Zone (UFZ). Credit: Longley et al. 2024. Plate tectonics are the driving force behind Earth’s continental configurations, with the lithosphere (oceanic and continental crusts and upper mantle) … Read more
A man walks near the Las Vegas strip during a heat wave in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 7, 2024. A record-breaking heat wave continued to grip the western United States on Tuesday, smashing records and endangering lives with little relief in sight. Approximately 162 million people—nearly one-half of the US population—were living in areas … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Unaccompanied children entering the United States without adult legal guardians and legal status account for a growing share of U.S. Border Patrol encounters along the southern border, with most fleeing extreme violence, poverty, and food insecurity. In response, emergency intake sites and influx care facilities (surge facilities) were used to promptly … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain One of the privileges the wealthiest Americans enjoy is living wherever they want. But new research published in Risk Analysis suggests they should be cautious when choosing their Shangri-La. In their nationwide analysis, Rutgers University geographers Michael Greenberg and Dona Schneider compared the concentration of hazards and associated risks impacting the … Read more
