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Agricultural & Forestry Science

Monitoring Crop Photosynthesis with Invisible Light Insights

“Photosynthetic performance is a key trait to monitor as it directly translates to yield potential,” said Kaiyu Guan, an assistant professor in the College of…

Earth Sciences

Hawaiian Hotspot: New Insights into Ancient Fast Motion

The island chain of Hawaii consists of several volcanoes, which are fed by a “hotspot”. In geosciences a “hotspot” refers to a phenomenon of columnar shaped…

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Earth Sciences

Atacama Desert – Life under extreme drought conditions

The core region of the Atacama Desert in South America is one of the most arid places on Earth. Sometimes it is raining only once in a decade or even less, the…

Earth Sciences

Global Change Threatens Vital Biological Soil Crusts

Biological soil crusts protect the soil, accelerate the rate of soil formation and contribute to biogeochemical nutrient cycling via fixation of atmospheric…

Life & Chemistry

Low-Cost Device Identifies Fibroblast Subtypes in RA

Single-cell analysis holds enormous potential to study how individual cells influence disease and respond to treatment, but the lack of cost-effective and…

Materials Sciences

Nanomushroom Sensors: Versatile Applications of Nanoplasmonic Tech

The slide is made of a 'nanoplasmonic' material — its surface is coated in millions of gold nanostructures, each just a few billionths of a square meter in…

Earth Sciences

German nights get brighter — but not everywhere

The nights in the German federal states („Bundesländer”) have been getting brighter and brighter – but not everywhere at the same rate and with one peculiar…

Earth Sciences

Geological Change Boosts Diversity in Tropical Rainforests

The tropical rainforests of Central and South America are home to the largest diversity of plants on this planet. Nowhere else are there quite so many…

Medical Engineering

Early CT Imaging Insights on Cancer Therapy Effectiveness

What effect does a particular cancer medicine or radiation therapy have on patients? To find out, physicians use CT images to determine whether a tumor’s size…

Health & Medicine

Enhancing High Altitude Medicine: New Guidelines for Research

The aim of these guidelines is to standardise data capture in this area of research and thereby guarantee, and indeed improve the quality of clinical research….

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's SDO reveals how magnetic cage on the Sun stopped solar eruption

The scientists, led by Tahar Amari, an astrophysicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics at the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau Cedex, France, considered…

Physics & Astronomy

Exotic State of Matter: Unveiling Secrets Within Atoms

What is inside an atom, between the nucleus and the electron? Usually there is nothing, but why could there not be other particles too? If the electron orbits…

Physics & Astronomy

Clearest Infrared Image of Our Galaxy’s Center Revealed

“This collaborative work is an exciting step forward in our collective efforts to gain a greater understanding of our own galaxy and the super-massive black…

Physics & Astronomy

Breakthrough in Semiconductor Research: GaSe Oxidation Insights

With his scientific article entitled “GaSe oxidation in air: from bulk to monolayers,” Mahfujur Rahaman has made an important contribution to physics research…

Health & Medicine

Finnish Researchers Uncover New Immune System Regulator

Regulatory T cells are critical controllers of the immune response. The majority of T cells boost the immune response enhancing the ability to destroy cancer…

Physics & Astronomy

Basque Researchers Flip Light Wavefronts with Innovative Surfaces

Scientists had already theoretically predicted that specifically structured surfaces can turn the wavefronts of light upside down when it propagates along…

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