Valley reshaping and damming change surface and groundwater nitrate level at watershed scale

On the Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP), a project named “Gully Land Consolidation” (GLC) has been implemented…

PIA23747: Acheron Fossae

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Land-atmosphere interaction and cloud-precipitation characteristics in Tibetan plateau

Land surface processes and summer cloud-precipitation characteristics in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) can impact downstream weather…

Crosstalk captured between muscles, neural networks in biohybrid machines

Scientists watched the formation of a self-emergent machine as stem cell-derived neurons grew toward muscle cells…

Inverse design software automates design process for optical, nanophotonic structures

Stanford University researchers created an inverse design codebase called SPINS that can help researchers explore different…

Behind the mask: In search of gorilla-friendly tourism

Rwanda, land of a thousand invisible hills. It’s an overcast morning in Kigali, capital of Africa’s…

The coronavirus may force American schools to teach online. Are they ready?

The COVID-19 virus has started to close schools and college campuses in the United States. …

Grad student names new treehopper species after Lady Gaga

According to Brendan Morris, a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, treehoppers are…

Toxic masculinity is unsafe… for men

The belief that “real men” must be strong, tough and independent may be a detriment to…

Disease-causing virus manipulates crop plants to favor its vector

The virus that causes barley yellow dwarf, the most widespread disease of cereal crops, manipulates its…