Elegantly modeling Earth's abrupt glacial transitions

Proxy data—indirect records of the Earth’s climate found in unlikely places like coral, pollen, trees and…

Study unveils the mechanism behind the generation of large tsunamis off the Northwest Mexican coast

The Northwest Pacific coast of Mexico is an area struck by large earthquakes and tsunamis as…

Planets similar to Neptune and Jupiter observed circling a sun-like star

A small international team of space scientists has discovered a pair of planets that bear a…

Decline in nutrient load and sea-level rise: Winners and losers in the Wadden Sea

A team of researchers, including Senckenberg scientists Prof. Dr. Ingrid Kröncke and Dr. Anja Singer, has…

Report reveals extent of public sexual harassment experienced by Black and minoritized girls in the UK

A new report reveals the extent of public sexual harassment (PSH) experienced by Black and minoritized…

More than just risk: LGBTQIA+ young people use social media to sustain and make sense of family relationships

Much of World Pride has been about the visibility of LGBTQIA+ people. This is important to…

Researchers print high-performance microcone-array flexible piezoelectric acoustic sensor

According to the data of the World Health Organization, about 430 million people worldwide suffer from…

Coherent phonon-induced gigahertz optical birefringence realized in strontium titanate

Using ultrafast time-resolved pump detection technology, researchers led by Prof. Sheng Zhigao from the Hefei Institutes…

New method to synthesize menthol

Menthol is a substance that exists naturally in various mint plants. For hundreds of years, humans…

Different coarse-grained contents affect mechanical characteristics of frozen soil under freeze-thaw cycles

Frozen soil in nature is a multiphase composite geomaterial consisting of mineral solid particles, ice crystals,…