physics

Credit: Jin Chen et al. Volcanic activity alters the Earth’s surface and promotes the development of new ecosystems, providing valuable models for studying soil formation processes such as microbial composition and vegetation succession. Increasing evidence suggests that soil microbes are pivotal in numerous ecological and biogeochemical processes, encompassing carbon mineralization, humus formation, and nutrient cycling. … Read more

Venice Mallow, also called Flower-of-an-hour, (Hibiscus trionum) was selected by Edwige Moyroud as a new model plant for studying petal pattern development. Native to Australia, H. trionum also now occurs in gardens and has become naturalized in some parts of the world. Credit: Lucie Riglet and Edwige Moyroud Flowers like hibiscus use an invisible blueprint … Read more

Credit: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c10812 A team of researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), led by Program Head of Chemistry Ali Trabolsi, have developed nanoscale covalent organic frameworks (nCOFs), crystalline organic polymers that have been modified with peptides to treat the most aggressive form of breast cancer, known as triple-negative breast … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The recent discovery of the Ug99 wheat stem rust strain in Nepal, published in the Plant Disease journal, has once again emphasized the need for vigilance to protect Nepal’s third most important food crop from any large-scale outbreaks of this devastating wheat disease. Nepal already contends with frequent large-scale outbreaks caused … Read more

A soil chamber in a field of sorghum is installed to collect near-continuous measurements of greenhouse gases. Credit: Nithya Rajan/Texas A&M AgriLife While agriculture producers apply nitrogen fertilizer to supply nutrients to their crops, they can’t always keep those nutrients in the soil for maximum efficiency, often losing them into the atmosphere or water supply … Read more

Effects of feeds on body weight of rats. (A) Mean body weight distribution of rats fed different diets. (B) Mean body weight distribution of rats in different genders. (C) Changes in body weight of rats over time; (C1) Female; (C2) Male. Credit: Food Science of Animal Products (2024). DOI: 10.26599/FSAP.2024.9240068 As the global population grows … Read more

This image made from a NASA live stream shows NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore during a press conference from the International Space Station on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. Credit: NASA via AP Stuck-in-space astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams said Friday it was hard to watch their Boeing capsule return to Earth without … Read more

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Africa currently imports around 40 million tons of wheat annually at a staggering cost of $15 billion. Most African countries rely heavily on wheat imports, with some importing up to 100% of their supply. However, countries like Ethiopia and Zimbabwe have made significant strides toward self-sufficiency. Ethiopia has expanded irrigated wheat … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small asteroid will make one orbit around the Earth starting this month before departing back into other parts of the solar system. In their paper published in the journal Research Notes of the AAS, … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A hawk-eyed photographer has thrilled scientists by snapping a threatened bird of prey in Papua New Guinea, more than five decades since it was last officially documented, the World Wildlife Fund said Friday. The New Britain Goshawk is only found on Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island and is considered threatened, … Read more