Camila Medeiros—a post-doc at University of California Los Angeles, USA—presents her work ‘Predicting plant species climate preferences on the basis of mechanistic traits’. She discusses the connection between traits and…
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New treatment for postpartum depression offers hope, but the stigma attached to the condition still lingers
Postpartum depression can affect anyone, and it often sneaks in quietly, like a shadow in the corners of a new mother’s life. It presents significant challenges for around 1 in…
Manipulating nonlinear exciton polaritons in an atomically-thin semiconductor with artificial potential landscapes
Newswise — Exciton polaritons, hybrid quasiparticles caused by the strong exciton-photon coupling, constitute a unique prototype for studying many-body physics and quantum photonic phenomena traditionally in cryogenic conditions. Atomically thin…
China’s clean energy program Belt and Road gets ‘green’ reboot
Clean energy is a priority as China promises $100 billion of development funding – but don’t call it climate finance China has raised clean energy among the priorities of its…
Phonon engineering in Yb:La2CaB10O19 crystal for extended lasing beyond the fluorescence spectrum
Newswise — Electron and phonon are two fundamental particles (quasi-particles) of condensed matter and their interplay in single crystals can create many interesting physical phenomena, such as polariton, charge density…
HP, Qualcomm Aim To Prove the Best Defense Is a Great Offense
HP and Qualcomm, like much of the tech industry, currently find themselves in the doldrums for distinct reasons. HP, a stalwart in the PC and printer market, has continued to…
A Hebbian memory that achieves human-like results on sequential processing tasks
Figure summarizing the ‘remind’ process. Credit: Sangjun Park & JinYeong Bak. Transformers are machine learning models designed to uncover and track patterns in sequential data, such as text sequences. In…
Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk
Credit: CC0 Public Domain People who eat just two servings of red meat per week may have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared to people who eat…
Clouds of Tiny Quartz Crystals Fill Skies of Searing-hot Exoplanet
This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Quartz, also known as silica, exists everywhere: in beach sands,…
