The Arctic is one of the regions most strongly affected by climate change. In recent decades, the temperature there has risen four times as fast as the global average. The ASCCI measurement campaign coordinated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Goethe University Frankfurt is investigating why the Arctic is warming so much faster than the rest of Earth’s surface and what effects that will have. With measurement flights taking place in the region through early April, the researchers are working to gain a better understanding of the causes and effects of Arctic climate change.  

A team of researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology has systematically reviewed the key scientific technologies of construction robots in extreme environments, summarized the research advancements, and discussed future research directions. The research article detailing these innovations, titled "Construction Robotics in Extreme Environments: From Earth to Space," has been published in the prestigious journal Engineering.

Exercise science researchers at the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health are recruiting parent-child dyads to participate in a virtual study about the use of technology among children ages 3-5. Participants can earn up to $1200. 

Scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the National Center for Wildlife (NCW) report in PNAS NEXUS an unusual ecosystem below the third largest coral reef system in the world and biggest in the Red Sea. Found in Difat Farasan, otherwise known as the Farasan Bank and located near the border between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, deep waters were inhabited by corals, fish and other animals not expected to survive in conditions of such low oxygen and high acidity. 

A recent review in Engineering presents new methods for enhancing chiral optical signals. Chirality is important in many fields, but its optical signals are weak and hard to measure. The research covers strategies like tailoring optical fields, using photonic resonance, orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams, metasurfaces with bound states in the continuum (BICs), and nonlinear optics. These methods offer new ways to study chiral optics, though challenges remain.