An artist-generated image illustrating possible futures in policy and research due to human modifications of the atmospheric water cycle. Credit: Patrick Keys and Fabio Comin Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Land use change is … Read more
An example of a probate inventory from England in the late 17th century. This is the inventory of John Booth, a victualler (supplier of food and alcohol) from Macclesfield in the county of Cheshire, dated to 1697. Credit: Reproduced with the permission of Cheshire Archives & Local Studies. Britain was already well on its way … Read more
Credit: The Anatomical Record (2024). DOI: 10.1002/ar.25416 Mario Modesto Mata, a researcher in the Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a paper published in The Anatomical Record, on the use of artificial neural networks to reconstruct the number of perikymata, which are … Read more
The Yangtze River. Credit: Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke from Pixabay The first study of toxic “forever chemicals” along the full length of Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze, has found 13 different types of PFAS, nearly half of them coming from textile treatments and food packaging. The study, led by a specialist in emerging contaminants at … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After the introduction of the income tax in the United States, there has been a migration of higher income earners toward states with lower or no income tax, a new study reveals. This first-ever systematic analysis of 110 years of state income tax implementation throughout the United States also highlights the … Read more
Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c14359 Scientists from the University of Oulu (Finland) and Texas A&M University (U.S.), have developed a new method to study how proteins interact with small ligand molecules, paving the way, for example, for faster and more efficient drug discovery. This interaction, known as protein–ligand interaction, is … Read more
Climate change is making cherry trees bloom sooner in Japan on average. Tourists and residents packed Tokyo’s top cherry blossom spots on Thursday to enjoy the full bloom that has arrived in the Japanese capital later than usual this year because of cold weather. The elegant dark branches bursting with pink and white flowers—known as … Read more
Bluestriped grunts and gray snapper, two fish species vital to the local economy, in Belize’s Hol Chan Marine Reserve. Credit: Pete Oxford/iLCP Age matters when determining how to protect life in the ocean; every population needs a strong cohort of adults to produce the next generation. But many marine protected areas (MPAs) are falling short … Read more
olaron interfacial occupied entropy (S^p-interf) engineering. Credit: National Science Review (2024). DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwae009 Among organic thermoelectric materials, PEDOT:PSS (poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene-poly(4-styrenesulfonate)) thin films have received extensive attention but suffer from low Seebeck coefficients of 10–20 μV K-1 due to the high oxidation states in the PEDOT polymer chain. Considerable effort has been devoted to increasing the Seebeck … Read more
“Insects rule the world,” says Figueroa—and they can be identified by their distinctive sounds. Credit: Paul Wright Recent research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst evaluates how well machine learning can identify different insect species by their sound, from malaria-carrying mosquitoes and grain-hungry weevils to crop-pollinating bees and sap-sucking cicadas. Listening in on the … Read more
