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Social Sciences Jun 24, 2024

Violence towards refugee and migrant women often goes undetected. Researchers find a way to help fix that

Recent deaths have highlighted the seriousness of intimate partner violence nationally. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, the number of women killed by partners increased by 28% from 2022 to 2023. While ...

Archaeology Jun 24, 2024

Rocks on Rapa Nui tell the story of a small, resilient population—not a doomed, overpopulated island

Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new research study my colleagues ...

Biotechnology Jun 24, 2024

Mashed up purple marine bacteria makes an excellent eco-friendly fertilizer

New research published in npj Sustainable Agriculture reports that biomass made from the purple photosynthetic marine bacterium Rhodovulum sulfidophilum is an excellent nitrogen fertilizer.

Nanomaterials Jun 24, 2024

Study explores high-performance copper/graphene composite conductor for motors

A study, led by Tingting Zuo, was based on the idea of in-situ growth, and a series of Cu/Gr composites with improved interfaces were prepared by vacuum hot press sintering. Combined with cold-drawing and heat-treatment processes, ...

Planetary Sciences Jun 24, 2024

Mystery of massive aurora in Arctic skies in December 2022 solved by astronomers

A small team of astronomers affiliated with several institutions in Japan, working with a pair of colleagues in the U.S., has solved the mystery of the unusually smooth aurora that appeared in the Arctic sky in December of ...

Evolution Jun 24, 2024

From pets to pests: How domestic rabbits survive the wilderness

How do rabbits go from fluffy pets to marauding invaders? Rabbits have colonized countries worldwide, often with dire economic and ecological consequences, but their secret to success has until now been a mystery.

General Physics Jun 24, 2024

Do protons decay? The answer might be on the moon

Does proton decay exist and how do we search for it? This is what a recently submitted study to the arXiv preprint server hopes to address as a team of international researchers investigate a concept of using samples from ...

Archaeology Jun 24, 2024

Rare Sāmoan discovery offers clues to origins of inequality

The discovery of ancient rock walls and high mounds and ditches in dense jungle in the Falefa Valley on 'Upolu Island in Sāmoa holds valuable clues to the origins of ancestral land and social hierarchy in Polynesian society, ...

Plants & Animals Jun 24, 2024

Science review shows fuel treatments reduce future wildfire severity

There is a common belief that prescribed burning, thinning trees, and clearing underbrush reduce risks of the severity of future fires. But is that true? Sometimes anecdotal evidence or limited observations can create doubt.

Biochemistry Jun 24, 2024

New approach sets stage to explore the mirror-image world of century-old naturally-occurring cyclodextrins

Cyclodextrins (CDs), a class of cyclic oligosaccharides that were "born" in 1891, have opened up endless research and commercial opportunities in numerous fields that span carbohydrate, supramolecular (host-guest) and analytical ...

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