Landing On Mars: Watch Out For The Hazardous Objects
Imagine that you have been successfully recruited as a Mars immigrator. After celebrating being a pioneer and approaching closer to this red planet, you find…
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Can Nanoparticles Form An Alliance With The Central Nervous System?
Until the early 2000s, nanotechnology was only considered as a means to manipulate matter at the atomic or molecular level. Since then, there has been…
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Predicting Cattle Depredation “Hotspots” By Gray Wolves On Public Lands
Livestock depredation (predation on domestic animals) by carnivores is one of the primary causes of human-carnivore conflict worldwide. Many carnivores have large home ranges and…
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Preparing The Field To Avoid A Volcanic Disaster By Means Of Numerical Modeling At Tacaná Volcano
Volcanoes are often seen as agents of destruction and catastrophes when they present major eruptive activity such as continuous lava flows, sustained vertical eruptive columns…
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How Vulnerable Is European Seafood Production To Climate Warming?
The world population increases at a rate of 1% every year. Today, we are 7 billion, and the world population will likely stabilize around 10…
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The Origin Of Mistrust, Investigated In Twins
Is distrust the opposite of trust? No, say American researchers. Both feelings have their own origins, and only one is influenced by genes. Everyone has…
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SNG (Solidified Natural Gas) Technology For Gas Storage
Natural gas (NG) has been recognized as the cleanest burning fossil fuel and a vital resource to alleviate anthropogenic CO2 emissions to enable a transition…
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Synthetic Salinity Model: An Alternative To Expensive And Time-Consuming, Ground-Based Soil Salinity Measurements
Climate change and associated sea-level rise is an imminent and inevitable threat for low-lying countries like Bangladesh. Additionally, a new concern of increased salinity is…
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Gaps In Perception: How We See A Stable World Through Moving Eyes
We see the most detail in the center of our visual field. This region is called the fovea: it is most densely packed with receptors…
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Fighting Fire With Fire: Using Stress Hormones To Weaken The Effects Of Stressful Events
In Stephen King’s 1981 novel Cujo (adapted to film in 1983), a boy and his mother are trapped in their car as a rabid Saint…
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Brain Stimulation Boosts Peripheral Vision
Most of our interactions with the external world are mediated by our visual senses. Approximately 20% of the human neocortex is devoted to the processing…
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