Ecology
May 15, 2024
Protecting wildlife begins with understanding how best to counter wildlife crimes
Global biodiversity is declining, and human activities are mainly to blame.
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Economics & Business
May 15, 2024
Weather risk can move markets months in advance—stock traders pay attention to these two long-range climate forecasts
To understand how important weather and climate risks are to the economy, watch investors. New research shows that two long-range seasonal weather forecasts in particular can move the stock market in interesting ways.
Optics & Photonics
May 15, 2024
Researchers use AI to boost image quality of metalens camera
Researchers have leveraged deep learning techniques to enhance the image quality of a metalens camera. The new approach uses artificial intelligence to turn low-quality images into high-quality ones, which could make these ...
Environment
May 14, 2024
Petroleum and chlorine mix in water could yield harmful byproducts, says new study
A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that chlorine mixed with petroleum in water can potentially produce inadvertent byproducts harmful to human health. The research is published in the journal Chemosphere.
Optics & Photonics
May 14, 2024
Ultrasensitive gas detection empowered by synergy of graphene and sub-comb dynamics
Since the inception of microcomb, whose generation relies on Kerr nonlinearity in microresonator, the coherent soliton state has attracted intense research. Although the operation of sub-comb outputs is straightforward, as ...
Ecology
May 14, 2024
Wildlife traffickers carried on their illegal trade during COVID lockdown—what can we learn from their resilience?
The world literally stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic. But while countries locked down to keep coronavirus at bay, wildlife traffickers carried on their illegal activities. Global risk governance and criminology academics ...
Planetary Sciences
May 14, 2024
Astronomers discover WASP-193b, a giant planet with a density similar to that of cotton candy
An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in Andalusia, has just discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily low-density ...
Education
May 13, 2024
AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals—here's why that's OK
If you search Google Scholar for the phrase "as an AI language model," you'll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, one paper on agricultural technology says,
Nanophysics
May 13, 2024
Electron vortices in graphene detected for the first time
When an ordinary electrical conductor—such as a metal wire—is connected to a battery, the electrons in the conductor are accelerated by the electric field created by the battery. While moving, electrons frequently collide ...
Astronomy
May 13, 2024
Anticipating future discoveries: Scientists explore nontrivial cosmic topology
In a new Physical Review Letters (PRL) study, scientists explore the possibility of nontrivial or exotic topologies in the universe for explaining some of the anomalies seen in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
