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Earth Sciences Mar 6, 2024

Comparable net radiation between the high-elevation Tibetan Plateau and the low-elevation Yangtze River region: Study

Land–atmosphere interactions play a crucial role in shaping Earth's climate system, profoundly influencing weather patterns, climate variables, and ecological processes. Despite being located at similar latitudes, the Tibetan ...

Nanomaterials Mar 5, 2024

Team successfully synthesizes atomically precise metal nanoclusters

A research team has successfully synthesized a metal nanocluster and determined its crystal structure. Their study provides experimental evidence for understanding and designing nanoclusters with specific properties at the ...

Archaeology Mar 5, 2024

New timeline for East Asian hominins' tool-making revealed

A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to Mode 2 technological features occupied East Asia as early as 1.1 million years ago (Ma), which ...

Earth Sciences Mar 4, 2024

Mantle convection linked to seaway closure that transformed Earth's oceanographic circulation patterns

Continental drift is a concept familiar to many, referencing the movement of Earth's continents due to shifting tectonic plates over millions of years, splitting one globe-spanning supercontinent into the configuration we ...

Astronomy Feb 21, 2024

Smallest star ever observed is part of an exotic binary system

A large international team of astronomers has discovered the smallest known star to date, and found that it is paired with another, somewhat larger star. Their paper is published in the journal Nature Astronomy,.

Nanophysics Feb 7, 2024

Enrichment of anchoring sites via supramolecular halogen bonds for efficient perovskite nanocrystal LEDs

Colloidal semiconductor nanoparticles can be viewed as a complex of an inorganic single crystal core and a monolayer of organic ligands. The location and type of ligand anchoring on the nanocrystal surface are critical to ...

Nanomaterials Feb 7, 2024

Curved carbon nanotubes enhance electrocatalysts for carbon neutrality

Electrocatalysis plays a vital role in developing clean energy, greenhouse gas removal and energy storage technologies. A study co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) researchers found that single-walled carbon nanotubes ...

Evolution Jan 26, 2024

Genomic analysis sheds light on how seagrasses conquered the sea

Seagrasses provide the foundation of one of the most highly biodiverse, yet vulnerable, coastal marine ecosystems globally. They arose in three independent lineages from their freshwater ancestors some 100 million years ago ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 22, 2024

Researchers develop high-efficiency carbon dioxide electroreduction system for reducing carbon footprint

Global warming continues to pose a threat to human society and ecological systems, and carbon dioxide accounts for the largest proportion of the greenhouse gases that dominate climate warming.

Plants & Animals Jan 18, 2024

Scientists, farmers, managers work together to avoid the decline of the little bustard

Collaboration between scientists, farmers and managers is crucial to improve the protection of the little bustard, an steppe-land bird in Spain endangered due to human activity. The reduction of natural habitats, the increase ...

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