A research team led by Prof. CHENG Tianhai from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made a breakthrough by developing a high-resolution satellite remote sensing method to quantify global methane emissions from landfills.

Researchers have developed a powerful new method to detect harmful blue-green algae in freshwater lakes, according to a new paper published a journal of the American Chemical Society

New research from northern Scandinavia and Svalbard reveals that Arctic lakes could emit more methane as climate change increases lake and ecosystem productivity. The study highlights how even modest warming can drive greenhouse gas emissions from Arctic sediments—fuelled by lake algal production and plant growth around the lakes.

In IJEM, a new method for the production of high specific strength SiC-based ceramics at a relatively low sintering temperature (1100 °C) is proposed. Low-temperature sintering of SiC-based ceramics can be achieved by introducing a high content of polysiloxane (PSO) solution (75% by weight). At the same time, the introduction of silicon oxidized carbon (SiOC) phase greatly reduces the anisotropy in the mechanical properties of SiC ceramics. This method provides insights for forming SiC-based ceramics by low-temperature primary sintering and provides a new reference for controlling the anisotropy of vat polymerization ceramic parts.

Once current scientific limitations are overcome, AI-powered digital twins could become a transformative solution to the urgent challenge of shifting from fossil fuels to renewable and environmentally sustainable energy sources.

A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute and collaborating institutions has developed a reliable method to create complex magnetic textures, known as skyrmion bags, in thin ferromagnetic films. Skyrmion bags are donut-like, topologically rich spin textures that go beyond the widely studied single skyrmions.