Sediments near hydrothermal vents are enriched in metals derived directly from hydrothermal fluids (e.g., Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn) and those associated with scavenging and co-precipitation from seawater with hydrothermally derived ...

Carbon storage mechanisms have seen increased attention to remove atmospheric carbon with the capability of seagrass meadows to sequester and store carbon becoming a key research objective within the Pacific Northwest ...

Taste and price tend to have a greater influence on food choices than extrinsic motivations such as nutrition and environmental performance. The connection between the taste of agricultural products and production methods ...

Modern human expansion and landscape development has substantially restructured natural landscapes with cascading impacts on biodiversity, resulting in population declines and range contractions in many North American large ...

The music of Claude Debussy moves in mysterious ways. As we unwind while listening to his compositions, we often find ourselves floating through time, not quite able to tap our feet to the music. Although Debussy specifies ...

Variable renewable energy resources will play an increasingly prominent role in electricity systems as global economies pursue ambitious decarbonization and electrification targets. Power system flexibility will become a ...

In Boé National Park in Guinea-Bissau, a community of wild Western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) has been observed engaging in a novel, potentially cultural, behaviour, accumulative stone throwing (AST). Individuals ...

Niobium is widely used in quantum computing devices and charged particle accelerators, while it is in superconducting state. In these applications the niobium surface is subjected to very different electric field strengths ...

Although Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has been widely acknowledged for providing a necessary critical lens for the analysis of Orientalism in Western Europe and North America, whether post-colonial ideas neatly translate ...

The terahertz (THz) band is a promising frequency band that ranges from 300 GHz to 10 THz and being considered for the next generation of wireless networks due to the large available bandwidth and achievable ultra fast ...