Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain COVID-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline…
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Functional Ecology’s Award for Early Career Researchers – Functional Ecologists
The Haldane Prize is awarded by the British Ecological Society each year for the best paper in Functional Ecology written by an early career author. With entries spanning the 37th volume of…
Eclipse Helped to See Solar Corona in New Light
Observations made by William Harkness during the 1869 total eclipse led to a pivotal discovery about the sun’s corona. When it comes to studying solar eclipses, University of Rochester scholars have been…
What Makes Black Holes Grow And New Stars Form? Machine Learning Helps Solve The Mystery
When they are active, supermassive black holes play a crucial role in galaxies’ evolution. Until now, growth was thought to be triggered by the violent collision of two galaxies followed…
Vaccine monitoring is crucial as SARS-CoV-2 variants continue to evolve, says study
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre at UCLH have highlighted the importance of continued…
Happiness Takes Practice – Neuroscience News
Summary: Happiness can indeed be learned through courses like their ‘Science of Happiness’, which educates students on evidence-informed habits for well-being. However, a follow-up study indicates that the initial boost…
Sculptured head and bust from Roman period discovered at Burghley House
A sculptured head and bust made from marble has been discovered during construction works on the car park at Burghley House. Burghley House is an English country house near Stamford,…
Recent progress and a flying car perspective
EMS system of HEPS under three-dimensional transportation network. Credit: Zhexi Lu, Science and Technology on Vehicle Transmission Laboratory, School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology A paper aiming to…
The moon’s moment in the sun
2024 Total Solar Eclipse shadow path map, built using datasets from several NASA missions. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On April 8, 2024, much of North America will experience a…
A new method to understand the walkability of cities
The global-local path choice model explains the extent to which different attributes influence pedestrians’ global and local path choices. In this example, the pedestrians are more likely to choose Street…
