Strong graphene bulk composites with high thermal conductivity
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In short, we report an inverse phase enhancement (IPE) strategy to fabricate high-performance graphene paper (IPE-GP) exhibiting high strength (63.3 MPa) and high thermal conductivity (1325 W/m·K) at a minimal polymer loading of 5.9%. Using this conspicuous IPE-GP, we fabricated graphene composites that attained a record in-plane thermal conductivity of 802 W/m·K of polymer bulk composites.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence model that learns from real match data to evaluate and improve football attacking strategies against compact "low block" defenses. By modeling both on-ball decisions and off-ball movements, the model generates more coordinated and creative attacking solutions, offering practical decision support for coaches and analysts.
A recent study has constructed a disaster picture of the "April 27" tornado that struck Guangzhou, China in 2024 by integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery, detailed ground-based post-disaster surveys, and high-precision meteorological simulations. The research analyzed the tornado's trajectory, intensity, and its impact on building structures, providing a reference for tornado disaster assessment and the wind-resistant design of engineering structures in South China.
Artificial intelligence can dramatically speed up the painstaking work of tracking wildlife with remote cameras, cutting analysis time from months or even a year to just days while producing nearly the same scientific conclusions as humans. That’s according to a new study led by researchers at Washington State University and Google, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology. The team tested whether a fully automated AI system could replace humans in processing hundreds of thousands to millions of camera trap images collected in Washington, Montana’s Glacier National Park, and Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve.
The loss of physical traits—such as limbs in snakes or eyes in cavefish—is a common feature of evolution, yet the genetic mechanisms enabling such changes remain incompletely understood. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology reveal how organisms can undergo significant morphological changes despite possessing highly stable and redundant genetic regulatory systems.
Led by Dr. Ella Preger-Ben Noon and Ph.D. candidate Areej Said-Ahmad from the Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, the team investigated how gene expression evolves when controlled by multiple enhancers—DNA regulatory elements that ensure precise and robust activation of genes during development. These enhancers often function redundantly, buffering against mutations and maintaining stable gene activity.
Focusing on the fruit fly Drosophila sechellia, which has evolutionarily lost larval hair-like structures (trichomes), the researchers examined regulation of the shavenbaby gene, known to control this trait. Surprisingly, they found that four separate enhancers governing this gene independently lost their activity over time, each through a different molecular mechanism.
The study identified several distinct pathways leading to reduced enhancer function, including deletion of critical DNA segments, loss and gain of transcription factor binding sites, emergence of silencing elements, and activation of previously hidden repressive effects. Despite acting within the same regulatory system, these diverse changes all converged on the same evolutionary outcome: loss of gene expression and, consequently, loss of the physical trait.
These findings resolve the “stability paradox” by showing that regulatory redundancy, while promoting robustness, also creates multiple opportunities for evolutionary change. The work highlights how complex genetic systems can remain stable overall while still allowing flexibility in form and structure, offering new insights into the molecular basis of evolutionary diversity.
High concentrations of free fatty acid (FFA) in ketotic dairy cows activate endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress pathways, contributing to mammary epithelial cell apoptosis and reduced milk yield. The study sets the stage for in vivo trials to validate ER stress inhibitors like Tauroursodeoxycholate (TUDCA) as practical solutions for managing ketosis and enhancing dairy cows health.
A collaborative research team from Nanyang Technological University, University of Queensland,and Beijing University of Technology have identified compelling signatures of the topological Hall effect in the layered van der Waals ferromagnet FePd₂Te₂ (FPT), revealing the emergence of nanoscale chiral spin textures stabilized during magnetic spin reorientation. They reported an angle‑selective Hall anomaly in the FPT, consistent with a topological Hall contribution from chiral or non‑coplanar spin textures stabilized during a spin‑reorientation process. By rotating the magnetic field between in‑plane and out‑of‑plane directions, the teams find two clear anomalous Hall plateaus and a pronounced hump‑like Hall signal that appears only within a narrow angular window near the in‑plane configuration and peaks around ~100 K. Importantly, this behavior persists across flakes with markedly different thicknesses (~100 nm and ~450 nm), placing strong constraints on extrinsic multi‑domain or multi‑component anomalous Hall scenarios. This work demonstrates that FPT represents a promising new platform for studying topological magnetism and developing next-generation spintronic devices based on low-dimensional magnetic materials