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New possibilities in the theoretical prediction of particle interactions
Comparison of our result for I2(5) (plotted as curves) with numerical results from pysecdec (points). Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.101601 How does the world look like at the smallest scales? This is a question scientists are trying to answer in particle collider experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland. To…
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Researchers launch database with new classification system for minority-serving institutions in US
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In response to inaccurate and inconsistent data used to identify minority-serving institutions (MSIs) for funding and analysis, researchers have established a database with recommendations for uniform and accurate MSI classifications. The MSI Data Project, launched in March 2023, offers dashboards with data on MSI eligibility, funding status, institutional… Continue Reading News…
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Forests reduce health risks, new global report confirms
Forests and trees offer shade, food and water in regions suffering increasingly from drought and heat, such as Morocco, but are threatened at the same time. Credit: Alexander Buck The global scientific evidence of the multiple types of benefits that forests, trees and green spaces have on human health has now been assessed by an…
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AI detects bird sounds in Taiwan’s montane forests
The Gray-chinned Minivet displays a secondary non-breeding season peak, which is possibly related to flocking behavior. Credit: Shih-Hung Wu, Ph.D. Candidate Montane forests, known as biodiversity hotspots, are among the ecosystems facing threats from climate change. To comprehend potential impacts of climate change on birds in these forests, researchers set up automatic recorders in Yushan…
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Now there is a database to track these semi-aquatic insects
(a) Number of observation records per 500-m elevational band. (b) Number of genera and the number of their observation records in the database. (c) Cumulative number of observation records of each order over the last 70 years (only data with exact sampling years included). Credit: Global Ecology and Biogeography (2023). DOI: 10.1111/geb.13648 From water to air:…
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NASA seeks student ideas for moon landing dust control
Human Lander Challenge logo overlaid on an artist’s illustration of an Artemis astronaut looking out at the lunar surface. Credit: NASA As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the moon’s surface and back as part of Artemis, the agency is asking university students to investigate…
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Semiconductor lattice marries electrons and magnetic moments
Schematic electrostatics phase diagram. Credit: Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05800-7 A model system created by stacking a pair of monolayer semiconductors is giving physicists a simpler way to study confounding quantum behavior, from heavy fermions to exotic quantum phase transitions. The group’s paper, “Gate-Tunable Heavy Fermions in a Moiré Kondo Lattice,” published March 15 in Nature….…
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South Korean moon probe’s NASA camera illuminates dark crater (photo)
An image of a crater rim near the lunar south pole shows how NASA’s latest lunar camera is shining new light on the darker regions of our celestial neighbor. The new photo, snapped on Feb. 28 by the NASA-funded ShadowCam, shows a portion of the 2.85-mile-diameter (4.6 kilometers) Marvin crater, just 16 miles (26 km)…
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Earth’s crustal stress can be inferred from fluid flow of fractures in deep boreholes
by KeAi Communications Co. Binary classification of fractures in the studied boreholes: a shear and effective normal stresses resolved on the hydraulically non-conductive (gray) and conductive (red) fractures. The prediction accuracy of the logistic regression is shown for each class. b Probabilistic density distributions of the slip tendency Ts of hydraulically non-conductive (gray) and conductive…
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Don’t Miss Out! The 2023 Laboratory Automation Virtual Event Is Tomorrow, March 22, 2023
As its name implies, laboratory automation is a multi-disciplinary strategy that involves the control of laboratory tools and equipment that requires minimal human interaction, which allows for new and improved laboratory processes to be implemented, resulting in better science! This automation system includes the use of computer hardware and software, conveyor systems, robots, and machine…