a) Schematic of the temperature/wavelength-dependent spatial mode steerable SFG device; (b) in the temperature steering scheme, the detected up-conversion lights with (i) TM01, (ii) TM10, and (iii) TM00 modes at 30°C, 40°C, and 60°C, respectively, on a white broad; (c) in the wavelength steering scheme, the detected SFG lights with (i) TM00, (ii) TM01, and … Read more
Design of the SHiP experiment. Credit: Leiden University After many years of preparations, CERN has approved a new experiment: the Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP). Physicist Alexey Boyarsky was involved from the start. “We know there is physics that’s missing and we aim to find it.” “Ultimately, we try to capture the whole universe in … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The model minority myth paints a picture of Asian Americans as a monolithic group with unparalleled success in academics. A new NYU study unpacks this myth, exploring the needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students and how higher education institutions support these populations. In 2007, Congress established a … Read more
Location of Tongtianyan cave (Liujiang) in Guangxi Province, southern China, together with the location of other key fossils of Homo sapiens in China. Frontal view of the Liujiang cranial and postcranial elements. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47787-3 The emergence of Homo sapiens in Eastern Asia has long been a subject of intense research interest, … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Texas residents who look up at the night sky over the next few weeks might catch a glimpse of an avian superhighway. Migratory birds like whooping cranes and tiny songbirds are making their seasonal flights over Texas to northern breeding grounds, with peak migration occurring from April 22 to May 12, … Read more
A vehicle of the Dhaka North City Corporation sprays water along a busy road to lower the temperature amidst a heat wave. Bangladesh’s weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heat wave. Extensive scientific research … Read more
A quarter of a million wolves once roamed from coast to coast before European colonizers embarked on campaigns of eradication that persisted into the 20th century all but wiped them out in the lower-48 states. The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain With climate change continuing its relentless march, the world faces not only rising temperatures and extreme weather but also an insidious threat to our homes: invasive termites. And the bill could be steep; invasive termites currently cost over US $40 billion annually. In a new study published in Neobiota, Ph.D. student … Read more
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has communicated with its Psyche spacecraft — located more than 226 million kilometres away — using a space laser. The Psyche mission is a journey to a unique metal-rich asteroid orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Laser communications sent a copy of engineering data back to Earth … Read more
The adsorption mechanism of uranium (VI) by hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). Credit: Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology Nuclear energy has long been regarded as a next-generation energy source, and major countries around the world are competing to secure cutting-edge technologies by leveraging the high economic efficiency and sustainability of nuclear power. However, … Read more
