Upconversion materials: A new frontier in solar water-splitting

Solar water splitting is one of the most direct ways to produce green hydrogen using sunlight. However, most photocatalysts ...

Soybeans recruit beneficial soil microbes to defend against a major pest

Soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is among the most damaging pests affecting soybean crops around the world, with current ...

Marine biologists a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades

The growth form of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is composed of shoots known as stipes instead of branches. From one parent holding fast to the hard bottom might come as many as 150 stipes.

Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities

During armed conflicts in Latin America, state forces, insurgents, and paramilitaries systematically employed massacres, torture, abductions, and targeted killings to dismantle social structures. The ...

Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time

From brightly colored textile dyes to persistent pesticides and antibiotics, many modern pollutants dissolved in water—such ...

2025 was hotter than it should have been: Five influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what's ahead

The past three years have been the world's hottest on record by far, with 2025 almost tied with 2023 for second place. With ...

Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go

Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply ...

AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring

A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for monitoring ...

New LVK catalog adds 128 gravitational-wave candidates, more than doubling detections

When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves ...

Newfound terrestrial crocodile fossil redraws the map of Europe in the age of the dinosaurs

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

Protecting wildlife from genetic collapse with newly identified 'early warning signals'

A new study reveals that habitat fragmentation can lead to sudden "tipping points" where a species' genetic health ...

How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes

How do biological cells join forces to form a structure? In her Ph.D. research, Daphne Nesenberend uses mathematics to show ...