Are Our Houses Demanding More From Us?
Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us.” Buildings grow, adapt, and evolve just like the users that occupy…
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Examining Cystine Crystallization In Cystinosis Patients
Cystinosis is a genetic disease that leads to the accumulation of cystine and the formation of intracellular crystals throughout the body, including in the kidney…
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Transboundary Water Cooperation And The Sustainable Development Goals
Think about what you drank today. Odds are, you drank water at some point. For most of us, particularly in more developed countries, water might…
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A Single Grave, Several Generations: Paleoecological Insights From Skeletons Of An Extant Species
It is not rare to find in the fossil record of vertebrates cases in which fossils from one or few extinct species predominate over others…
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Investigating The Effects Of PM2.5 On Energy Metabolic Reprogramming
During the last two decades, air pollution has been regarded as one of the toughest challenges facing human beings. As the key indicator of air…
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Exploring The Goods And Services From Forest Ecosystems By Integrating Information From Multiple Sources
Why are forests relevant? Forest ecosystems contain large amounts of different groups of organisms and play a key role in biodiversity conservation across the world’s…
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A Unique Independent Record Of Past Temperature Change In Northwest Ireland For The Mid To Late Holocene
The Holocene, the current geological epoch, spans approximately the last 11,700 years. Holocene temperature variability in Ireland is considered to have been relatively subdued; however, recent…
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Understanding The Intention To Work With Social Robots
Recent years have seen an increase in the number of robotic solutions geared toward social interactions with humans. Social robots are designed to collaborate and…
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Geochemical Methods Help Resolve A Long-Standing Debate In Amber Palaeontology
Ambers are fossilized plant resins that have found wide use in jewelry-making. They are also a major archive for the study of invertebrate evolution. Yet,…
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“I Don’t Want To Take The Perspective Of Minority Group Members”: Instructions Enhance Reactance And Non-Compliance
Blatant prejudice against refugees is on the rise in many Western countries1. Can we reduce prejudicial attitudes and promote empathy toward minority group members? Previous…
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Carbon Benefits Of Managed Forests
Forests have a complicated relationship with carbon and climate. They sequester huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, estimated at 10-20 percent of U.S. emissions,…
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