Earth Sciences Jan 16, 2025

40-year study suggests extreme droughts will become more frequent and severe

Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a study from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), with Professor ...

Ecology Jan 16, 2025

Mussel bed surveyed before World War II still thriving

A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two young students surveyed it shortly before Pearl Harbor was attacked and one was sent to fight in World ...

Optics & Photonics 16 hours ago

Detecting edges of images at the speed of light

Physicists from the group of Jorik van de Groep at the UvA-Institute of Physics have devised a new method that can be used to detect edges of images in an extremely energy efficient and ultrafast way. The results were recently ...

Superconductivity Jan 20, 2025

Student project discovers superconductor with hallmark of unconventional superconductivity

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a new superconducting material. They combined iron, nickel, and zirconium, to create a new transition metal zirconide with different ratios of iron to nickel. ...

Mathematics Jan 16, 2025

Art analysis: 2D multifractal tools examine Jackson Pollock's expressionism

The temperature changes hour to hour and day to day; exchange rates behave no differently. Wherever studies of the variability of similar one-dimensional time series are concerned, analyses based on multifractals have managed ...

Condensed Matter Jan 17, 2025

Peeling back the layers: Exploring capping effects on nickelate superconductivity

So-called "infinite-layer" nickelate materials, characterized by their unique crystal and electronic structures, exhibit significant potential as high-temperature superconductors. Studying these materials remains challenging ...

Biochemistry 14 hours ago

Computational tool designs proteins with water-mediated interactions in mind

Proteins are life's engines, powering processes like muscle movement, vision, and chemical reactions. Their environments—water, lipid membranes, or other condensed phases—are critical to their function, shaping their ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 22, 2025

Final synthetic yeast chromosome completed, paving way for biotech advances

Macquarie University researchers have worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromosome in the world's first synthetic yeast ...

Environment Jan 22, 2025

Offshore wind farms could cause significant ecosystem, economic and human health risks

The materials used to protect wind turbines from corrosion leach into the surrounding water, which could pose risks to ecosystems, seafood safety and human health, new research from the University of Portsmouth has found.

Earth Sciences Jan 20, 2025

Tropical cyclones and internal tides contribute to deep near-inertial kinetic energy, researchers discover

Near-inertial internal waves (NIWs) are crucial energy sources for deep-sea mixing, but the origins of deep NIWs have remained largely unknown. A research team led by Prof. Wang Fan from the Institute of Oceanology of the ...

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