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Lars Hultman, professor of thin film physics and Shun Kashiwaya, researcher at the Materials Design Division at Linköping University. Credit: Olov Planthaber For the first time, scientists have managed to create sheets of gold only a single atom layer thick. The material has been termed goldene. According to researchers from Linköping University, Sweden, this has … Read more

The CHM covering the ABBY site. The canopy heights are represented by color palette from red to green. The blue circles represent the locations of GEDI samples over multi-layer forests. Credit: Journal of Remote Sensing (2024). DOI: 10.34133/remotesensing.0132 A team of researchers has unveiled a novel approach to accurately characterizing tree height composition in forests … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nations battling for Olympic success in a global sporting ‘arms race’ has led to elite coaches migrating to Western countries as they bid to escape antiquated and restrictive coaching regimes in their home countries, reveals a new study. National teams pursuing Olympic gold medals are increasingly recruiting foreign elite coaches from … Read more

Potamophylax kosovaensis. Credit: Ibrahimi et al. Over the last few years, Professor Halil Ibrahimi from Kosovo and his team have described several new species of aquatic insects recognized as bioindicators of freshwater ecosystems. The work is published in the Biodiversity Data Journal. However, the celebration of these discoveries is tempered by alarming concerns: the newfound … Read more

The specimen from which the high-coverage blue antelope nuclear genome was extracted: a young male from the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Source: Hempel et al. 2021. Identifying the true number of specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus). Credit: Swedish Museum of Natural History The blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was an African antelope … Read more

Credit: National Science Foundation Glittering threads of stars around the Milky Way may hold answers to one of our biggest questions about the universe: what is dark matter? With images taken through six different color filters mounted to the largest camera ever built for astronomy and astrophysics, Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming Legacy Survey of … Read more

Representative μCT slices from chips of the Winchcombe meteorite and contoured orientation data on the long and short shape axes of chondrules plotted on a lower hemisphere stereographic projections and n denotes the number of chondrules measured for each plot. Credit: Meteoritics & Planetary Science (2024). DOI: 10.1111/maps.14164 Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a speech to a group of religious broadcasters in February, Donald Trump promised to create a task force to counter “anti-Christian bias,” which he said would investigate the “discrimination, harassment and persecution against Christians in America.” It’s not the first time Trump has claimed that Christians are being persecuted, and … Read more

Dr. Shellie Habel of the University of Hawai’i measures the salt concentration of emerging groundwater in a basement in Waikiki. Credit: Chloe Obara, University of Hawai’i As sea levels rise, coastal groundwater is lifted closer to the ground surface while also becoming saltier and more corrosive. A recent study by Earth scientists at the University … Read more