Response to water stress and associations with plant functional traits – Functional Ecologists

In this new post, PhD candidate at University of Sun Yat-sen University, Chaoqing Song, presents his work ‘Differential tree demography mediated by water stress and functional traits in a moist…

Pumping cold water into rivers could act as ‘air conditioning’ for fish

PITTSBURGH — Salmon may now have their own version of human air conditioning.   This past summer, hundreds of fish in the Wrights River in Nova Scotia, Canada, found reprieve…

Medical exceptions to abortion bans often exclude mental health conditions

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More than a dozen states now have near-total abortion bans following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with limited medical exceptions meant to protect the patient’s…

Your smart watch can assist if you fall

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Last week I wrote about setting up Amazon Echo devices to enable making phone calls with your voice, which could be helpful in an emergency. I…

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-29 Flies Research to Space Station

The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves. The uncrewed SpaceX…

Monkey kept alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig kidney suggests pathway to developing organs for humans

Screening for diabetic eye disease every 2 years for those at ‘low risk’ could risk treatment delays and/or sight loss

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Extending the annual screen by a year for people in England considered to be at low risk of diabetic eye disease (diabetic retinopathy) could risk critical…

Unlocking the Language of Emotion Through Body Movement

Summary: Researchers unlocked the language of human emotion expressed through body movements. By employing a blend of computing, psychology, and the arts, they curated a human movement dataset to enhance…

A medium-voltage string inverter for photovoltaics

Higher voltage reduces the cable cross section. Credit: Fraunhofer ISE The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has developed and successfully commissioned the world’s first medium-voltage string inverter for…

How NASA Is protecting Europa Clipper from space radiation

Engineers and technicians are seen closing the vault of NASA’s Europa Clipper in the main clean room of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL on Oct. 7. The vault will…