A research team led by Prof. QIAN Peiyuan, Chair Professor of the Department of Ocean Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in collaboration with international partners, has made significant progress in uncovering how deep-sea chemosynthetic symbioses cope with environmental change. The findings reveal that metabolic flexibility in the symbionts, coupled with the host's finely regulated population of bacterial symbionts, mutually sustains the host's energy stability. This provides important in situ evidence of how chemosynthetic holobionts at deep-sea cold seeps remain resilient when energy supplies fluctuate and highlights the key role of a tiered adaptation strategy in sustaining the stability of cold seep ecosystems.

Cetaqua–Water Technology Centre and RMIT University have launched a new research collaboration integrating environmental and economic evaluations with public policy analysis.

Synthetic chemicals with long-range transport potential are increasingly scrutinized under international chemical treaties.

A new technology has been developed that can rapidly predict city-scale structural damage even when portions of satellite imagery are obscured by clouds or smoke immediately after a disaster.

When cold water hits a scorching frying pan, it beads into trembling spheres that skate effortlessly on a pocket of their own steam, a phenomenon that normally chokes cooling systems in high-power microchips and nuclear reactors because trapped steam blocks heat escape. Yet moving liquids through these extreme-heat environments without mechanical pumps has long eluded engineers. Now in the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, researchers have flipped a notorious manufacturing flaw on its head: by intentionally misaligning ultrafast laser beams, they have carved microscopic ramps onto metal surfaces that harness that very steam cushion, turning chaotic boiling into a directional engine that propels droplets uphill and around curves without a single moving part.

 

Native seed systems are a crucial part of prairie restoration and have been studied from ecological, production and trouble-shooting angles, but never from a social science perspective, until now. Researchers from South Dakota State University conducted more than 60 interviews to better understand the people and relationships within the native seed system of the Northern Great Plain Region to help identify the best ways to support the local network.