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CambridgeSeven to design the Port Wonder Children’s Museum & Nature Center
CambridgeSeven—the historic Massachusetts office cofounded in 1962 by Ivan Chermayeff, Peter Chermayeff, and five other modernist luminaries—released images this month showing their newest project in the City of Lake Charles, Louisiana. The Port Wonder Children’s Museum & Nature Center is a 32,000-square-foot hub by CambridgeSeven overlooking Louisiana’s scenic Lake Charles. At the new $20 million…
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Working together to bring you the very best from nature
Consumer understanding and trend programmes Consumers, and understanding their needs and desires, are at the heart of our approach to flavours. Our global research teams track trends, conduct ethnographic studies and carry out detailed qualitative and quantitative research to understand consumers and inspire the next innovation. Globally 47% of consumers would be encouraged to buy…
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Analysis Group Announces Senior-Level Promotions and Lateral Hires, and Welcomes New Affiliates
BOSTON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Analysis Group, one of the largest international economics consulting firms, announces two promotions to managing principal and principal, and welcomes two managing principals, a vice president, and 13 academic and industry affiliates. “We are delighted to announce several senior-level promotions and welcome lateral hires to the firm,” said Martha S.…
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How NASA Captured Asteroid Dust to Find the Origins of Life
The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule (foreground) landed in the Utah desert on September 24, carrying samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu (background). Emily Lankiewicz Capturing a piece of an asteroid and bringing it to Earth is even more difficult than it is time-consuming. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft launched on September 8, 2016, and began orbiting…
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Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor
Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent extinctions remain enormously difficult to overcome. An innovative branch of research that joins robotics with paleontology, however, does let scientists bring back long-gone creatures in a different way:…
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Microbial methane cycling in a landfill on a decadal time scale
Abstract Landfills generate outsized environmental footprints due to microbial degradation of organic matter in municipal solid waste, which produces the potent greenhouse gas methane. With global solid waste production predicted to increase substantially in the next few decades, there is a pressing need to better understand the temporal dynamics of biogeochemical processes that control methane…
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Wideband 1-bit reconfigurable transmission metasurface unit cell design in Ka-band with polarization hold and conversion
Abstract In this paper, a wideband transmission unit cell is proposed for programmable metasurfaces operating in the Ka-band. The unit cell features a compact period of only 2.91 mm, corresponding to 0.34 λ0 at the center frequency of 35 GHz. A receiving layer, consisting of a patch loaded with two PIN diodes, is utilized to achieve 1-bit…
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Controversies of carbon dioxide removal
Various methods of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) are being pursued in response to the climate crisis, but they are mostly not proven at scale. Climate experts are divided over whether CDR is a necessary requirement or a dangerous distraction from limiting emissions. In this Viewpoint, six experts offer their views on the CDR debate. Carbon…
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As an artist-scientist, ‘I’m obsessed with pigments’
Sierra Weir blends art and science skills to strengthen others’ relationships with their local ecosystems.Credit: Dagny Felker Sierra Weir is an environmental educator and pigment artist at Three Rivers Waterkeeper, a non-profit organization in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that advocates for local waterways. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology in 2020 at the…
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Establishing the normal range of sperm DNA fragmentation index (% DFI) for rhesus macaques
Abstract The Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay (SCSA) is a robust test with high repeatability and precision. It is a clinically accepted assay that defines risk for infertility in men by measuring the degree of DNA fragmentation (% DFI) in sperm. The objective of this study was to adapt and validate the SCSA for rhesus macaques…