Spotted Towhee (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo, George Gentry). Credit: Spotted Towhee (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo, George Gentry) PSW ecologist and tribal liaison Frank Lake wondered how the birds he grew up with in northeastern California were faring. As a Karuk tribal descendant with Yurok family, Lake has a deep connection to …
On the left, six representative amorphous carbons obtained from the large-scale MD simulations are plotted and obvious topological differences can be identified clearly. On the right, the discontinuous phase diagram of amorphous carbons is shown, in which the dashed lines and together with the index ‘n’ give the fitted power law, log(sp3/sp2) ~ ρn, for …
Fig. 1 The transport results of FeSe/δ-doped SrTiO3(001), in comparison with FeSe/SrTiO3(001). Credit: Science China Press Interface engineering has been proven to be effective in discovering new quantum states, such as topological states, superconductivity, charge density waves, magnetism, etc., which require atomic-scale heterostructure fabrication. Monolayer FeSe on SrTiO3 substrates has attracted intense interest owing to …
Researchers studied landslides around the world, like the 2008 disaster in Beichuan, China, to develop a new paradigm for understanding their movements and failure types. Credit: Kushanav Bhuyan Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every year. By introducing …
Illustration of some of the marine food items described in the scientific paper as umami-rich blue food. Credit: Jonas Drotner Mouritsen Greening the way we eat needn’t mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to “boring” vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G. Mouritsen …
The Borel plane of Bϕ. Credit: SciPost Physics (2024). DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.16.4.103 In the quantum world, processes can be separated into two distinct classes. One class, that of the so-called “perturbative” phenomena, is relatively easy to detect, both in an experiment and in a mathematical computation. Examples are plentiful: the light that atoms emit, the energy …
A haunting sight at the archaeological site. The face of a statue of the god Dionysus as it’s painstakingly chipped away from and brushed free of millennia of built-up deposits. Credit: 2024 Institute for Advanced Global Studies CC-BY-ND A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Platforms that offer rides to passengers, such as Uber and DiDi, thrive on socio-economic inequality. By modeling the behavior of passengers and self-employed drivers, researchers of TU Delft simulated the market for ridesourcing platforms, evaluating a broad spectrum of (in)equality levels in societies. It explains why in some cities ridesourcing services …
Credit: G. Thompson A prevailing opinion in land management is that non-native invasive plants are of no ecological value and they significantly diminish habitat quality for wildlife. Conservation practitioners allocate significant resources to invasive plant removal, often relying on surrounding native plants to passively fill the void. However, evidence that this practice improves food abundance …
A grassland north of China’s capital Beijing, where grazing cattle roam amidst the changing environmental conditions. Credit: Li Mingxing Climate change is significantly altering bioclimatic environments in China’s dry–wet transition zones, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Hydrology. The research conducted by scientists from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the …