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Immediate health and economic impact of the Tigray war on internally displaced persons and hosting households
Abstract Globally, war is the major cause of displacement from the usual place of the biological environment. The war of Tigray exposed thousands of people to internal displacement and migration. Evidence has shown that displaced people and migrants shoulder the health and economic burden to ensure survival. However, evidence of the impact of the war…
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Integrating citizen science and environmental DNA metabarcoding to study biodiversity of groundwater amphipods in Switzerland
Abstract Groundwater is the physically largest freshwater ecosystem, yet one of the least explored habitats on earth, both because of accessing difficulties and the scarcity of the organisms inhabiting it. Here, we demonstrate how a two-fold approach provides complementary information on the occurrence and diversity of groundwater amphipods. Firstly, we used a citizen science approach…
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1-km resolution rebound surfaces and paleotopography of glaciated North America since the Last Glacial Maximum
Abstract We present a series of 1-km spatial resolution rebound (isobase) surfaces based on publicly distributed predictions obtained from the glacio-isostatic adjustment models known as ICE-5G (VM2 L90), ICE-6G_C (VM5a) and ICE-7G_NA (VM7). Our objective is to provide readily accessible tools for a broad range of geological and paleoenvironmental studies, and to facilitate direct comparison…
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A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience
Abstract Despite an unprecedented number of women entering neuroscience, and decades-long recruitment and retention efforts, women continue to be disproportionately underrepresented in European academic tenure-track faculty and leadership positions. This Perspective focuses on two major career points where women exhibit diminished representation: the transition from postdoctoral fellow to junior professor and the promotion to more…
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Using spatial and logical-mathematical intelligence for information wayfinding
In the third of a trilogy of essays on types of intelligence, Bruce Gibb mines the thoughts of some of his peers on what personal qualities help chemists achieve success in the lab. It’s ironic that spatially intelligent chemists turn to those who score high on spatial intelligence to help us create art for the…
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Daily briefing: Why women were deliberately infected with Zika
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Rainfall in the northeastern state of Odisha might decrease by 12% if India’s river-linking plans are implemented.Credit: Asit Kumar/AFP via Getty River-linking plan could reduce rainfall India’s controversial plan to link several rivers could upset the…
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Low-loss contacts on textured substrates for inverted perovskite solar cells
Abstract Inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) promise enhanced operating stability compared to their normal-structure counterparts1–3. To improve efficiency further, it is crucial to combine effective light management with low interfacial losses4,5. Here we develop a conformal self-assembled monolayer (SAM) as the hole-selective contact on light-managing textured substrates. Molecular dynamics simulations indicate cluster formation during phosphonic…
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Detection of the infrared aurora at Uranus with Keck-NIRSPEC
Abstract Near-infrared (NIR)-wavelength observations of Uranus have been unable to locate any infrared aurorae, despite many attempts to do so since the 1990s. While at Jupiter and Saturn, NIR investigations have redefined our understanding of magnetosphere–ionosphere–thermosphere coupling, the lack of NIR auroral detection at Uranus means that we have lacked a window through which to…
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Systematic review: predictive value of organoids in colorectal cancer
Abstract While chemotherapy alone or in combination with radiotherapy and surgery are important modalities in the treatment of colorectal cancer, their widespread use is not paired with an abundance of diagnostic tools to match individual patients with the most effective standard-of-care chemo- or radiotherapy regimens. Patient-derived organoids are tumour-derived structures that have been shown to…
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Investigating the atomic behavior of carbon nanotubes as nanopumps
Abstract In this study, we utilized molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the nano pumping process of Carbon Nanotube (CNT) in an aqueous environment. In this research, an attempt has been made to investigate and analyze the pumping process of fullerene C20 and water molecules through a carbon nanotube that is externally stimulated by two…