Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk5979 Research led by Macquarie University sheds new light on how concentrations of metals used in renewable energy technologies can be transported from deep within the Earth’s interior mantle by low temperature, carbon-rich melts. The findings published this week in the journal Science Advances may assist global efforts to find … Read more
Exeter researchers analyzing bones recovered from the horse cemetery. Credit: University of Exeter Archaeological analysis of a near unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed the international scale of horse trading by the elites of late medieval and Tudor England. Using advanced archaeological science techniques, including studying chemical composition, researchers … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An international team of scientists has warned against relying on nature providing straightforward ‘early warning’ indicators of a climate disaster, as new mathematical modeling shows new fascinating aspects of the complexity of the dynamics of climate. It suggests that the climate system could be more unpredictable than previously thought. By modeling … Read more
Conceptual illustration of transition state searches. Points along the reaction path (often called images, metaphorically represented by person) are incrementally updated to find a transition state (cross mark). Credit: Shin-ichi Koda A computational method for finding transition states in chemical reactions, greatly reducing computational costs with high reliability, has been devised. Compared to the most … Read more
Artistic image of a binary system of a red giant star and a younger companion that can merge to produce a blue supergiant. Credit: Casey Reed, NASA An international piece of research, led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has found clues to the nature of some of the brightest and hottest stars … Read more
The new microbe-explicit soil model (left) versus DayCent’s previous soil model that did not explicitly model microbe activity (right). Credit: Danielle Berardi et al. Of all the carbon stored in ecosystems around the world, about half can be found in soils. Depending on climate, vegetation, and management, soils can be either a carbon source or … Read more
A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the ‘human age’ its own distinct place in earth’s geological timeline. A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the ‘human age’ its own distinct place in Earth’s geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun. After 15 years … Read more
Myrmarachne colombiana. Credit: George Poinar Jr. Arachnophobia can make humans flee at the sight of a brown recluse, black widow or even a daddy long legs, but animal predators of spiders know no such fear. That’s why, paleobiologist George Poinar Jr. explains, some spider species have developed the defense of deception. They masquerade as a … Read more
Physics alumna Erin McCarthy ’23, right, was lead author on a study published in Physical Review Letters which uncovered mechanisms that cause particles to sort spontaneously into different groups. Professor M. Lisa Manning, left, was a co-author. Credit: Syracuse University Erin McCarthy ’23, physics summa cum laude, is a rarity among young scientists. As an … Read more
Overview of Feòrachas structure, depicting geometries of lineaments and locations of key observations. Context map shows rover traverse (white line). Boxwork map shows orientation of ridges. Rose diagram depicts orientation of those ridges (resultant 215°, n = 10). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ MSSS. Credit: Geology (2024). DOI: 10.1130/G51849.1 Billions of years ago, Mars was home to abundant … Read more
