Can We Cheat The Brain And Save Energy?
Conditioning of built environments dominates global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. If lighting can be used actively to stimulate our perception of the thermal…
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Aggressiveness — A Trait With Many Meanings
What is aggressiveness? When we try to imagine an aggressive person, some of us would imagine a person who initiates fights or arguments, while others…
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Beyond The Plastics…
It is clear that we cannot live without plastic anymore. Plastic has become an essential material for our life, from the moment we get up…
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Mapping Soil Salinity From Space: Keeping An Eye On Degradation Of The World’s Farmland
The presence of soluble salts, such as sodium chloride, in agricultural soils can dramatically reduce crop yield. In irrigated agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid…
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Investigating Shear Margins And Temperate Ice In The Antarctic Ice Sheet
Ice streams and outlet glaciers are relatively fast-flowing regions of ice that are adjacent to nearly stagnant ice or mountains. These ice streams are visible…
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Helping Fish Move Freely: Study On Target Species And Swimming Ability, And How Fishways Can Help
Dams have expanded rapidly in the world. People focus on issues ranging from irrigation, hydroelectric power, water resource allocation, and ecological restoration and believe it…
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Chaperone Protein AdDJSKI Of A.diogoi Potentiates Biotic As Well As Abiotic Stress Tolerance In Tobacco
Arachis diogoi, a wild diploid species related to the cultivated peanut, is resistant to the late leaf spot pathogen Phaeoisariopsis personata, which is one of…
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What If We Have The Whole Tonsils Thing Completely Backwards?
Everyone knows someone who has had their tonsils taken out at some point in their lives. In some families, it is practically a rite of…
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Accessing Greater Microstructure-Related Information In The Brain Through MRI
Can one access properties of human cells in vivo? Imaging deeply inside human bodies is possible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but its spatial resolution…
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The Odd Icy Moons Of Saturn: After Cassini, We Still Don’t Know Everything
Cassini Mission scientists were thrilled when they got permission for a “sneak peek” at Saturn’s mysterious moon Iapetus on New Year’s Day 2005. Soon after…
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Why Are There More Species Packed In Some Places Than Others, And Why Does It Matter?
THE QUESTION Biodiversity – the richness of species found at a given location – is critical to maintaining ecological processes and the benefits provided to…
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