At the U of A’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies, Wolfgang Alders, a National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Fellow, is using satellite imagery and archaeological methods to better understand the origins of urban life on the eastern African Swahili Coast, a vast region spanning the modern countries of Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. At the U…
Justin Frake is interested in cause-and-effect relationships in real-world data and the hidden dynamics that shape workplace behavior and equality—or inequality, as the case might be. Justin Frake is interested in cause-and-effect relationships in real-world data and the hidden dynamics that shape workplace behavior and equality—or inequality, as the case might be. Social Sciences Economics & Business Phys.org…
The Swedish capital Stockholm aims to capture more carbon dioxide than is emitted by 2030. Therefore, the city is investing in new technology at a combined heat and power plant. But it is a strategy that has been adopted without sufficient discussion of the risks, say researchers at Linköping university, Sweden. The Swedish capital Stockholm aims…
Drought is the most devastating environmental stress that farmers face worldwide. With the added pressures of climate change, drought years have become less predictable, more frequent and more severe. Drought is the most devastating environmental stress that farmers face worldwide. With the added pressures of climate change, drought years have become less predictable, more frequent and…
A recent series of experiments conducted by Ph.D. student Maya Enisman and Dr. Tali Kleiman from the Psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, challenges the longstanding theory of motivational conflict resolution introduced by Kurt Lewin. According to Lewin, conflicts between two undesirable outcomes (avoidance–avoidance conflicts) are typically harder to resolve than those between…
In a new paper in Science Advances, researchers at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Quantinuum have demonstrated clear evidence of a quantum algorithmic speedup for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). In a new paper in Science Advances, researchers at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne…
Researchers have unveiled a pioneering breeze wake-up anemometer (B-WA), employing a rolling-bearing triboelectric nanogenerator (RB-TENG) that provides a new strategy for low-energy consumption environmental monitoring. The ability of the B-WA to operate autonomously and efficiently in varying wind conditions marks a substantial advancement in the field of sustainable environmental monitoring. Researchers have unveiled a pioneering breeze…
Sticks and stones aren’t enough to thwart biological attraction, but sometimes those are the only tools available to pastoralists trying to prevent wildlife from eloping with their livestock. Sticks and stones aren’t enough to thwart biological attraction, but sometimes those are the only tools available to pastoralists trying to prevent wildlife from eloping with their livestock. Plants…
His prodigious paintings of whales and his books about sharks, giant squid and tuna were acclaimed for melding science with art. His prodigious paintings of whales and his books about sharks, giant squid and tuna were acclaimed for melding science with art. Ellis, Richard (1938-2024), Deaths (Obituaries), Oceans and Seas, Whales and Whaling, American Museum of Natural…
When Tasmanian astronomer Louis Bernacchi set foot on Antarctica in 1898, he declared, “Antarctic exploration is of capital importance to science.” While his statement remains as true as ever, scientific exploration has faced unique geostrategic and environmental threats in the intervening years. When Tasmanian astronomer Louis Bernacchi set foot on Antarctica in 1898, he declared, “Antarctic…