Structural and optical symmetry breaking in polar crystals. Credit: FHI An international team of scientists provide an overview of the latest research on light-matter interactions. A team of scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute, the City University of New York, and the Universidad de Oviedo has published a comprehensive review article in Nature Reviews Materials. … Read more
Carbon sequestration effects of particulate organic carbon released during macroalgal growth. Credit: Li Hongmei Macroalgae are the most productive plants in coastal ecosystems. They have attracted worldwide interest due to their ability to sequester carbon. The growth of macroalgae can produce significant amounts of particulate organic carbon (POC), but it is unclear how these POC are … Read more
This map of Earth in 2023 shows global surface temperature anomalies, or how much warmer or cooler each region of the planet was compared to the average from 1951 to 1980. Normal temperatures are shown in white, higher-than-normal temperatures in red and orange, and lower-than-normal temperatures in blue. An animated version of this map shows … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Modeling is a dream occupation for many young women, but for those who make modeling a career, finding work can be a traumatic, sexualized nightmare, a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study finds. To land a modeling job—the first photo shoot, the next gig—models must constantly network, an essential element of entrepreneurial labor. … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that can improve the lives of Americans are still ongoing, thanks to the help and insight of UNM’s Center for Social Policy (CSP.) CSP Director and Political Science Professor Gabriel Sanchez and Ph.D. candidate Melanie Sayuri Dominguez just published research with one of these major … Read more
A figure depicting global surface temperature anomalies in 2023. Credit: C3S/ECMWF In 2015, most countries, including Canada, signed on to the Paris Climate Agreement which set the objective of “holding the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing the limit of 1.5 C to significantly reduce the … Read more
Scientists from Qingdao University of Science and Technology developed a novel path to synthesize atomically precise, water-soluble alloy nanoclusters. Credit: Xun Yuan, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology In recent years, ultrasmall metal nanoclusters have unlocked advances in fields ranging from bioimaging and biosensing to biotherapy, thanks to their … Read more
The new snow storm in Iowa comes atop a previous wave of winter weather earlier in the week. A powerful storm that could strengthen into a so-called bomb cyclone pummeled north and central parts of the United States on Friday, with heavy snow derailing campaigning for the important Iowa caucus. Several inches of snow were … Read more
Carpobrotus. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Some invasive plants can form persistent banks of seeds that remain under the soil for years, and this makes their eradication practically impossible. Over time, this invisible population of large quantities of living, buried plants—in seed form—will reoccupy ecosystems and displace the typical flora of the natural environment. This is … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Astrobotic’s damaged Peregrine lander managed to send data back from all nine of its interfacing payloads over the three days it’s been hurtling through space, the company said. An additional payload received power, making for a full demonstration of the startup’s first lander, aside from the fact that none of the … Read more
