The knowledge economy accounts for more than 10% of U.S. employment and almost 20% of national GDP. Not only limited to the U.S., Eurostat 2020…
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Sighting a single hummingbird feeder filled with birds at each feeding port with other birds hovering in the background waiting for their chance to feed…
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Although “dam fever” has come down in developed countries since the 1980s (Graf, 1999), the fever continues in developing countries (Grumbine and Pandit, 2013). By…
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The impacts of climate change are vividly expressed in ecosystems, and such climate-induced alterations can be monitored in vegetation. Lately, mountain ecosystems have undergone accelerated…
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The interior of comets and asteroids is still poorly known. A better knowledge of these small Solar bodies is particularly interesting as these bodies contain…
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Important geochemical and biogeochemical processes such as organic carbon decomposition and contaminant remediation take place at the pore scale. Pore-scale modeling provides a powerful tool…
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Plants produce and build up triacylglycerol (TAG, familiar to most people as vegetable oils) in their seeds as a main carbon and energy resource for…
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Fossil amber from present-day Myanmar – commonly called Burmese amber – continuingly yields amazing new discoveries. Among these are three new wasp species with bizarre,…
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Most people living in the high-income world may be unaware of a “silent killer” that is estimated to cause over 2 million deaths annually.1 “Household air…
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Evidence that the polar regions were much warmer during the Cretaceous Period (145-66 million years ago) compared to today has accumulated during the past century…
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“The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm” (Hippocratic Corpus,…
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