A blue-headed sunbird in the Albertine Rift: an example of a tropical bird with iridescent, colorful feathers. Credit: John Bates, Field Museum The color palette of the birds you see out your window depends on where you live. If you’re far from the Equator, most birds tend to have drab colors, but the closer you … Read more
University of Washington researchers investigated how iBuyers—companies that use automated algorithms to quickly buy and sell homes—have affected the well-documented racial bias against Black home sellers. In Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, they found that on average iBuyers paid more equal prices to Black and white home sellers than individual buyers, largely because iBuyers paid white … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The red palm weevil can devastate the valuable date palm plantations of the Middle East. Yet, date producers are still hesitant to apply new technologies that can control this invasive pest. A recent ICARDA study reveals factors that hinder pest control adoption. The findings are in the journal Blessed Tree. In … Read more
Top row: Photoreaction proceeds uniformly throughout the crystal. Bottom row: Photoreaction proceeds non-uniformly from the edge to the center of the crystal. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University A rose by any other name is a rose, but what of a crystal? Osaka Metropolitan University-led researchers have found that single crystals of four anthracene derivatives with different … Read more
In un-doped ZrO2-SiO2 system, the GBs between ZrO2 nanocrystallites were clean without dopant segregation. When heating the material, Zr and O atoms could easily cross the GBs, resulting in grain coarsening. In comparison, when multiple dopants were added to the material system, GB complexions with multiple dopants co-segregated were formed. The GB complexions acted as … Read more
UF/IFAS scientists are trying to grow coffee cultivars in South Florida. Credit: Felipe Ferrao, UF/IFAS Crave that cup of coffee in the morning? Globally, consumers drink more than 2.2 billion cups daily. Someone grows all that joe: More than 100 million farmers worldwide produce coffee. Coffee beans consumed across the globe come from two species: … Read more
Stack of the spin-LED emitting circularly polarized electroluminescence. The (R-MBA2Pbl) acts as a spin filter, allowing only polarized carriers (blue circles) to flow through the LED and recombine in the multiple quantum wells (MQW)s emitting circularly polarized light (yellow helix). Credit: Hautzinger, M. et al. Nature (2024) Traditional electronics use semiconductors to transmit data through … Read more
Macroscopic structural and rheological properties from atomistic NEMD simulations as a function of the reduced shear rate. Credit: Journal of Rheology (2024). DOI: 10.1122/8.0000844 A research team affiliated with UNIST has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the properties of short-chain branched (SCB) polymers. The findings have far-reaching implications for various industrial applications, as SCB … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Homelessness is a major problem in the U.S., and it’s getting worse: A record 650,000 Americans were homeless on a single night in January 2023, according to the most recent point-in-time report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. That amounts to 1 out of every 500 people … Read more
Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and have correspondingly specialized body plans, particularly in their limb morphology. Credit: Zdeněk Macháček In new research published in PeerJ, researchers from the University of Washington, University of Texas at Austin and Oregon Institute of Technology, led by undergraduate student Abby Burtner, have advanced our understanding … Read more
