Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study is calling for a significant overhaul in the way education about human death is approached within schools, advocating for its inclusion as a vital component of the curriculum. The small-scale study by the University of Portsmouth emphasizes the urgent need for better training and resources to support teachers … Read more
Does this robot disturb penned fish? It is equipped with an echo sounder and cameras that enable it to observe how the fish around it respond to its movements. Here we see it being lowered into the water at a location offshore Kristiansund. Credit: SINTEF Norway leads the world when it comes to the use … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A survey conducted at the Hebrew University by Prof. Michal Almog-Bar, head of the Institute for the Study of Civil Society and Philanthropy, in collaboration with Civil Leadership, the umbrella organization of nonprofit organizations in Israel, analyzed the widespread mobilization effort in Israel following the terrorist attack by Hamas on October … Read more
Enhancement mechanism of multifunctional structural modulation strategy based on Ti substitution. Credit: Science China Press Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are considered a promising energy storage system due to their superior safety properties, low price, and plentiful sodium supplies, while the development of electrode materials plays a critical function in the performance of SIBs. P2-Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 is a … Read more
(a) Valence band photoemission spectra of Au@AuxIr1-x and standard samples. The white bar represents the d-band center. (b) DFT calculated PDOS of d-bands and d-band centers for Au-Ir systems. (c) Structure-activity relationships. Credit: Science China Press Recent research published in National Science Review by a team led by Dr. Rong Cao and Dr. Minna Cao … Read more
Images of Yarrowia lipolytica surrounding and growing on polyolefin oil droplets (large red circles). Cells were stained blue to show the chitin cell walls and red to show the lipid bodies inside the cells and the oil droplets outside the cells. Credit: Cong T. Trinh Polyolefins are a type of plastic that is resistant to … Read more
Comparative illustration of generative models utilized for protein sequence modeling. (A) MaxEnt model: This model aims to delineate both the conservation of individual amino acids and their pairwise interactions, while concurrently making minimal assumptions by maximizing sequence information entropy. (B) VAE: A neural network that learns to encode data into a lower-dimensional latent space and … Read more
A high-level schematic of the photonic integrated chip, developed by the Gaeta lab, for all-optical optical frequency division, or OFD—a method of converting a high-frequency signal to a lower frequency. Credit: Yun Zhao/Columbia Engineering In a new Nature study, Columbia Engineering researchers have built a photonic chip that is able to produce high-quality, ultra-low-noise microwave … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or town square, but what if you are visiting a Holocaust … Read more
a,b, Total soil C stocks (a) and the proportion of total soil C that is protected (mineral-associated) (b) as a function of the mean annual temperature (MAT) globally. Each gridcell is colored by the percentage of clay and silt minerals, and best-fit trends are depicted for fine- and coarse-textured soils; here, fine-textured soils were classified … Read more
