Kiwi chicks have been born in the wilds around Wellington for the first time in more than a century. Conservationists in New Zealand celebrated on Tuesday after discovering that kiwi chicks had been born in the wilds around Wellington for the first time in more than a century. The fluffy, flightless bird with a long …
A green turtle covers her eggs with sand on Sandspit beach along the Arabian Sea in Karachi. Against the backdrop of the mega port city of Karachi, choked with traffic and construction, four green turtles emerge from the frothy Arabian Sea seeking a spot to lay their eggs. Three immediately retreat to the water, put …
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For many, a $200 traffic ticket can devastate their households’ savings and finances. A collaboration between the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice and the Center for Justice Innovation and Applied Research Services aims to help people who are struggling with court fines and fees. …
Signatures of emergent magnetic field in hematite α-Fe2O3. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.12125 Researchers have discovered magnetic monopoles—isolated magnetic charges—in a material closely related to rust, a result that could be used to power greener and faster computing technologies. Researchers led by the University of Cambridge used a technique known as diamond quantum sensing to …
A Northern Anchovy larva (25 mm long) collected during biological surveys and preserved in formalin. Credit: Credit: Rasmus Swalethorp New research from Scripps and NOAA scientists has discovered ecological correlations that could help explain the booms and busts of California’s anchovy population. If the correlations hold up to further research, they could one day help …
India has overtaken the European Union to become the world’s third-biggest emitter of fossil fuels, research has found. The world may cross the crucial 1.5C global warming threshold in seven years as fossil fuel CO2 emissions continue to rise, scientists warned Tuesday, urging countries at the COP28 talks to “act now” on coal, oil and …
Photograph of the C6D6 detector system in the Back-n facility of the CSNS. A gold sample is placed in the aluminum sample holder. Credit: Nuclear Science and Techniques (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s41365-023-01337-6 In a study published in the journal Nuclear Science and Techniques, researchers from Sun Yat-sen University have conducted a novel study on neutron capture …
Rutgers scientist Timothy Waller surveys evergreens at the Rutgers Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Millville, Cumberland County, where he grows and studies a host of varieties to serve the state’s community of tree farmers. Credit: Nick Romanenko/Rutgers University If you are heading to a farm or the local lot this weekend to pick out …
Anne Bentley, associate professor of chemistry at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, has developed an innovative way to teach nanoscience, using 3D-printed models that make the unseen visible. Credit: Stephen Mercier / Lewis & Clark College Nanoparticles are super tiny―as small as one nanometer, or one billionth of a meter―and are of keen …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the period 1970–2016, small publishing houses became increasingly important for the publication of literature in translation in Sweden. More than ever, Nobel laureates are being published by relatively small independent publishers. A specialization in translations often stems from a publisher’s personal interest in a language or geographical area. These conclusions …