The target set ten years ago in the Paris Climate Agreement was already very ambitious at that time and has become increasingly implausible over the years due to inadequate societal-political development and rapid warming. However, the 1.5°C limit has not yet actually been exceeded. So, is it too early for an obituary?

Economists and psychologists work together to understand how human behavior impacts people's decision-making in the marketplace.

Topology has real implications in the world. For example, topological techniques can be brought to bear on calculating the trajectories of spacecraft, and missions have been saved by the efforts of topologists.

Preliminary research led by ophthalmologist Jesse Smith, MD, indicates that a virtual reality-based vision test was as accurate as a standard test among patients with geographic atrophy, a potentially vision-threatening eye disease.

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) have been working on resolving a grand challenge for molecular biology, and more specifically, genetic research: how to take a high-resolution image of DNA to facilitate study. Using a number of compute resources, including NCSA’s Delta, Aleksei Aksimentiev, a professor of physics at U. of I, and Dr. Kush Coshic, formerly a graduate research assistant in the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at U. of I., and currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, recently made significant contributions to solving this challenge. They did it by focusing on two specific problems: creating a “camera” that could capture the molecular movement of DNA, and by creating an environment in which they could predictably direct the movement of the DNA strands.