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The Great Bear Nature Writing Retreat January, 2026 Great Bear Rainforest, BC. The Great Bear Lodge on the Central Coast of British Columbia is collaborating with internationally acclaimed science journalist Lesley Evans Ogden to host a nature writing retreat from May 31 - June 4, 2026. Located in the remote and beautiful Smith Inlet, ...
Read the releaseA new study reveals how entrepreneurs can win support for their ideas from audiences who never speak up. The research shows that the way entrepreneurs engage with a few vocal participants in online discussions can crucially shape how the larger, silent audience perceives and supports their ideas. The study “Mobilizing the silent majority: Discourse broadening and audience support for entrepreneurial innovations,” by Jamie Song, assistant professor of strategy at ESMT Berlin, has been published in the ...
Read the releaseFor years, wide-speed-range waveriders that can balance both high-speed and low-speed flight states have attracted significant attention in aerospace engineering. Such designs are crucial for developing reusable space shuttles capable of horizontal takeoff and landing. However, the significant degradation in performance exhibited by traditional waveriders across a wide-speed-range remains a major obstacle to the engineering application. At the core of this challenge is the difficulty in reconciling two conflicting aerodynamic requirements: effective shock wave control ...
Read the releaseResearchers propose a new citation index that balances productivity and impact in academic publishing. The h-index of citations was introduced in 2005 by a physicist Jorge E. Hirsch. This index is defined simply as the maximum number h of an author’s published papers with at least h citations each. For example, h = 3 means that there are three papers with 3 or more citations, but if a fourth paper exists, it has fewer than four citations. The h-index has quickly gained popularity and is now widely used to measure productivity ...
Read the releasePlaying linear number board games, those where players move pieces along a straight numbered path, can significantly strengthen young children’s math skills, according to a new report by the HEDCO Institute for Evidence-Based Educational Practice at the UO. Even better, the report found just a few short, 10-minute sessions of game play may have lasting benefits. The findings are from a meta-analysis, or systematic review, of 18 studies looking at number board games and early math skills in children preschool ...
Read the releaseUsing muon spin rotation spectroscopy, researchers from Japan and Canada successfully captured the rapid conversion of an imidoyl radical into a quinoxalinyl radical occurring within nanoseconds. The technique enabled real time detection of a highly reactive aromatic heterocyclic radical generated during the isocyanide insertion reaction, using muonium as a molecular tracker. The discovery is expected to advance particle-driven radical chemistry—exploring functional properties and offering new strategies for ...
Read the releaseYoung tropical forests play a crucial role in slowing climate change. Growing trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air, using photosynthesis to build it into their roots, trunks, and branches, where they can store carbon for decades or even centuries. But, according to a new study, this CO2 absorption may be slowed down by the lack of a crucial element that trees need to grow: nitrogen. Published in Nature Communications and coauthored by Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies ecologist Sarah Batterman, the study estimates that ...
Read the releaseWidely-used eye ointments can cause glaucoma implants to swell and potentially rupture, according to new research from Nagoya University in Japan. This study is the first to show, using clinical and experimental evidence, that petrolatum-based eye ointments can compromise the PRESERFLO® MicroShunt, an implant used in over 60 countries to treat glaucoma. Glaucoma is an eye disease that damages the optic nerve and can lead to vision loss. It often results from increased intraocular pressure caused by blocked drainage of eye fluid. A recent study estimated that 76 million ...
Read the releaseKyoto, Japan -- What we know of the birth of a black hole has traditionally aligned with our perception of black holes themselves: dark, mysterious, and eerily quiet, despite their mass and influence. Stellar-mass black holes are born from the final gravitational collapse of massive stars several tens of the mass of our Sun which, unlike less massive stars, do not produce bright, supernova explosions. Or at least, this is what astronomers had previously thought, because no one had observed in real time the collapse of a massive star leading to a supernova and forming a black hole. That is, until a team of researchers at Kyoto University reported their observations of SN 2022esa. The ...
Read the releaseThe research group of Professor Chuandong Dou at the State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, recently constructed two novel boron-hexane two-dimensional benzobenzenes using a borane-controlled cyclization strategy, elucidating the importance of boron atom doping. Using conjugated boranes as precursors, the researchers synthesized boron-hexane Z-type and bilayer benzobenzenes C32B2 via FeCl3 and Bi(OTf)3-mediated intramolecular cyclization reactions, obtaining narrow-spectrum fluorescence (half-width at half-maximum as narrow as 19 nm) and amplified spontaneous emission properties, demonstrating their ...
Read the releaseA team at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has created a machining method that takes a clear step beyond all existing field-assisted cutting techniques. Instead of using only one external energy field, such as heat or magnetism, the new approach applies a laser field and a magnetic field at the same time during diamond cutting. This dual-field method offers a way to machine advanced materials that are extremely difficult to process with conventional techniques. Field-assisted machining has been used for years to support precision manufacturing. But these traditional methods rely on just one type of assistance, which increasingly falls short as ...
Read the releaseAs Australians return to work after the holidays, many will be reflecting on their health and wellbeing goals for the year ahead. New research led by Flinders University reveals that while workplace factors like long hours, work-related stress and shift work do influence high-risk drinking, personal and social factors play an even bigger role. The study, published in Drug and Alcohol Review journal, examined more than two decades of data from the national Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to uncover how job-related factors influence alcohol consumption among workers. Lead author Dr Gianluca Di Censo from Flinders’ ...
Read the releaseTransparent electronics usually start with indium-tin-oxide coated glass—expensive, brittle and anything but eco-friendly. A Chinese-led team has now turned ordinary basswood into a 65-micrometre membrane that behaves like smart glass yet folds like paper. Writing in the Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, they describe a two-step recipe: first remove lignin and oxidise the cellulose with TEMPO to create a nanofibre mesh; then hot-press and impregnate the sheet with PMMA to restore strength and push optical transmittance to 86 %. A light-sensitive skin comes from spin-coating a PMMA layer doped with WO₃ nanoparticles. When hit by sunlight or a 365 nm desk lamp, ...
Read the releaseFor the last two years, the cultivated meat industry has been experiencing growing pains. Many startups have shrunk, shut down, or pivoted. Their advances aren’t going to waste, though. The Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (TUCCA), which seeks to enable production of meat, milk, and eggs from cells instead of animals, has teamed up with nonprofit partner Good Food Institute to salvage the intellectual property—the inventions—of those firms and make them publicly available to help nurture the industry. Specifically, this effort aims to obtain and broadly distribute cell lines—cells of a specific type ...
Read the releaseBernard Arulanandam, vice provost for research at Tufts University and professor of immunology at Tufts University School of Medicine, has been named a foreign fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. This honor recognizes his significant contributions to scientific research and his longstanding engagement with international scientific communities. The Indian National Science Academy, established in 1935, is India’s premier scientific body dedicated to advancing scientific inquiry ...
Read the releaseFor decades, researchers have focused on the problem of overgrazing, in which expanding herds of cattle and other livestock degrade grasslands, steppes and desert plains. But a new global study reveals that in large regions of the world, livestock numbers are substantially declining, not growing — a process the authors call destocking. “We often assume that rangelands are being degraded because we overgraze them, but the data show that it's not the whole story: nearly half of livestock production occurs in areas that have experienced destocking over the past 25 years,” said study co-author Osvaldo Sala, an ecologist and professor ...
Read the releaseKyoto, Japan -- While investigating the FGF21-oxytocin-dopamine system, a mechanism that regulates sugar appetite, a team of researchers at Kyoto University noticed reports suggesting that the protein FGF21 may regulate alcohol ingestion. The team's original aim had been to address sugar appetite in lifestyle-related diseases, but since alcohol is a fermented product of sugar, they speculated that perhaps the body contains a system that recognizes both alcohol and sugar as the same entity. Excessive alcohol consumption is a major global health issue, and ...
Read the releaseFor her decades of thoughtful Society leadership and energetic committee participation, the Seismological Society of America will present Ruth Harris with its 2026 Distinguished Service Award. Harris will receive the award at the 2026 SSA Annual Meeting. Harris, a senior research geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, joined SSA in 1987. She was first elected as an SSA Board Member from 1997 to 2003. She served as SSA Vice President from 2005-2007, and twice as SSA President, from 2015-2016 and from 2023-2024. In ...
Read the releaseThe Berlin Aging Study was carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in cooperation with partners from geriatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and the social sciences. BASE is regarded as a pioneering project of multidisciplinary gerontology, examining the lives of older Berliners aged between 70 and over 100 years. A window into life in old age Between 1990 and 1993, 516 inhabitants of former West-Berlin were interviewed and ...
Read the releaseA new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital. Hypotony is characterised by abnormally low eye pressure, which alters the eye’s normal shape and internal structure. Over time, this can lead to progressive and permanent vision loss, often taking several years to result in blindness. Hypotony may develop as a result of underlying eye conditions that damage the part of the eye responsible for producing the fluid that maintains normal eye pressure. Until now, ...
Read the releaseITHACA, N.Y. -- Fabric has long been difficult to render digitally because of the myriad ways different yarns can be woven or knitted together. Now, Cornell researchers, in partnership with the technology company NVIDIA, have developed a method for creating digital images of cloth that more accurately captures the texture of textiles. The team’s new study, presented Dec. 16 at the Association for Computing Machinery’s SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 meeting in Hong Kong, models how light interacts with yarns – both as it passes through and reflects ...
Read the releaseUnder tennis’s rules, the winner of a match is the player who wins the greater number of sets. In the majority of cases, that is also the player who wins the most games, too—but not always. Ahead of this year’s Australian Open, a team of game theorists has highlighted a rare but striking fairness problem: a player can win a match on sets while winning fewer games overall than their opponent. In their research, which appears in the Journal of Sports Analytics, New York University’s Steven Brams, Wilfrid Laurier University’s Marc Kilgour, and King’s College London’s Mehmet Mars Seven analyzed more ...
Read the releaseDiagnoses of depression, one of the most common mental disorders, increased by nearly 50% between 1990 and 2017, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, depression affects around 5% of the world's population. In Catalonia, the number of people diagnosed with the condition has also risen significantly in recent years. Between 2017 and 2022, the figures for depression and mood disorders grew by 86.6%, as reported by Catalonia's public network of primary healthcare centres. New technologies to ...
Read the releaseAlthough honey bees have the ability to regulate hive temperatures, new research published in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology shows that extreme summer heat can overwhelm these critical pollinators' cooling systems, leading to significant colony population declines. The research in “Negative Effects of Excessive Heat on Colony Thermoregulation and Population Dynamics in Honey Bees,” conducted during a hot Arizona summer, monitored nine honey bee colonies through three months of temperatures that frequently exceeded 40°C (104°F). The results indicate that intensifying heat waves worldwide represent a significant threat to honey bees ...
Read the releaseResearchers who examined Canadian child welfare data found that Black children were not only investigated at a higher rate than their white peers but were also more likely to be taken from their homes, even when the only difference between cases was the child’s race. “We know that Black children, and Black people generally, are more likely to face socioeconomic hardship because of systemic racism. And, so, what we wanted to do here is address the question, with all things similar, is it economics or racial bias?” explained Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, lead author of the study and an Assistant Professor at ...
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