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Ecology Aug 21, 2025

Terrain complexity index helps scientists predict soil erosion and plant diversity in mountains

A team of researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a new method to quantify the three-dimensional complexity of mountainous terrain. The novel tool, called the terrain ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 20, 2025

Cost-effective method developed for high-entropy alloy film production

A collaborative research team has developed a novel method for forming high-performance high-entropy alloy (HEA) films on various surfaces without using expensive alloy targets. This was achieved using a proprietary rotating ...

Quantum Physics Aug 17, 2025

Predicting the topological properties of quantum spin liquids using Rydberg atom lattices

Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their underlying lattice, as opposed to local interactions and their microscopic structure. Predicting the ...

Plants & Animals Aug 13, 2025

Antarctic leopard seal 'songs' are surprisingly similar to nursery rhymes

Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal mating call sequences seem to be similar ...

Astronomy Aug 11, 2025

Astronomers catch supermassive black hole in the act of 'waking up'

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in the act of awakening from a long slumber, providing an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest ...

Mathematics Aug 7, 2025

Mathematical proof provides new perspectives on the effects of blending

What happens when things combine? This question lies at the heart of the Borell-Brascamp-Lieb inequality (BBL), a mathematical relation widely applied across many fields of mathematics, science and beyond.

General Physics Aug 6, 2025

Researchers discover universal rules of quantum entanglement across all dimensions

A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective theory to demonstrate that quantum entanglement follows universal rules across all dimensions. Their study was published online in Physical Review Letters.

Analytical Chemistry Aug 4, 2025

Topological AI enables interpretable inverse design of catalytic active sites

A collaborative research team led by Professor Pan Feng from the School of New Materials at Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School has developed a topology-based variational autoencoder framework (PGH-VAEs) to enable ...

Plants & Animals Jul 31, 2025

Twinkle, twinkle leopard seal: Songs below the ice flow like nursery rhymes

In a study published today in Scientific Reports, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung ...

Materials Science Jul 30, 2025

Water's molecular disorder helps turn carbon waste into valuable fuel products

Penn materials scientist Shoji Hall and colleagues have found that manipulating the surface of water can allow scientists to sustainably convert carbon monoxide to higher energy fuel sources like ethylene.

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