Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world—and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can’t beat the heat. In a new article published in Frontiers in Bee Science, scientists identify rising heat as a potential culprit for the decline … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It is often thought that immigration threatens the solidarity on which redistribution relies. But looking at the post-war period, Ph.D. candidate Emily Anne Wolff finds that this is not the case. The post-war period was an age of welfare expansion but also of decolonization and migration. What can this time tell … Read more
The brains of older adults feel a sense of reward when listening to music, even if it’s a song they don’t particularly like, a researcher at British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University says. Sarah Faber said her work on how healthy brains respond to music as they age creates a baseline for future research on people … Read more
by University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Credit: Science of The Total Environment (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171930 As greenhouse gases go, nitrous oxide (N2O) is a doozy. With a global warming potential 273 times that of carbon dioxide, mitigating N2O could make a big difference. But before mitigation can happen, it’s … Read more
Plastic waste can be upcycled into diesel fuel by a process developed at Ames National Laboratory. Credit: Ryan Riley, Iowa State University What if we could help the global plastic waste problem and the transportation industry with the same technology? A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory is doing … Read more
Summary of experimental design and workflow. (A) We exposed crickets to no traffic noise or one of the three amplitudes of traffic noise as juveniles and then re-assigned them to noise treatments as adults. (B) To broadcast traffic noise at different amplitudes across treatments, we first leveled our traffic noise recordings to achieve more consistency … Read more
An early-morning cast, to collect water samples and make in-situ measurements, during the Baltic Sea investigation. Credit: Colleen Hansel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Human activities account for a substantial amount—anywhere from 20% to more than 60%—of toxic thallium that has entered the Baltic Sea over the past 80 years, according to new research by scientists … Read more
Zygnema. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01737-3 Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research team co-led by University of Nebraska–Lincoln computational biologist Yanbin Yin has cracked the genomic code of its humble beginnings, which made possible all other terrestrial life on Earth, including humans. The team—about 50 … Read more
Credit: Advanced Functional Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202400594 A technology enabling the fabrication of intricate three-dimensional (3D) quantum dot (QD)-based structures at room temperature has been developed. Led by Professor Im Doo Jung from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNIST, a recent study has introduced a cutting-edge one-stop perovskite quantum dot (PQD) additive manufacturing technology. … Read more
Credit: Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash Frequent disturbances to human societies boost the ability of populations to resist and recover from subsequent downturns, a Nature paper indicates. The study, which analyzes 30,000 years of human history, has implications for future population growth and resilience and for contemporary resilience-building initiatives. Resilience, the ability to withstand and recover … Read more
