Researchers from Tel Aviv University used mathematical tools from game theory to show that in certain situations, allowing platforms to retain decision-making power over the collection and commercialization of their users’ data can enhance overall welfare. The study was conducted by Prof. Yaron Yehezkel from the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Prof. Sarit Markovich from Northwestern University in Illinois.

In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, a team of scientists from China investigate impacts of mesoscale gravity waves on the evolution of sporadic E (E_s) layer in the ionosphere, using a newly developed model with an advanced dynamical core. The results reveal that mesoscale gravity waves affect E_s layers in various aspects, including inducing wave-like structure, dispersing the Es layer thickness, and enhancing the existing Es layers.

A team at the University of Cordoba analyzed more than 8,000 scientific papers on substance use and adolescence to look for the factors that protect adolescents from using them when they are encouraged to do so by those in their social circles, issuing a call for prevention policies to be updated to include vaping and social media

Minocycline prevents age-related cognitive decline: Discovery focusing on the Rp58 gene

Recently published research by Nunes et al. in the journal Weed Science shows planting soybean into a green, living cover crop provides effective control for some of the nation’s most troublesome weeds when integrated with pre-emergence (PRE) herbicides. More specifically, planting soybean over a cereal rye cover crop demonstrates an effective practice to both produce soybean and to suppress two problematic Amaranthus weed species: waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.

Researchers used solar energy to convert CO2 into a valuable chemical commodity with a two-step solar-powered process. First, electricity from solar energy combined with electrochemistry converts CO2 to ethylene. The ethylene gas stream that exits this process then feeds directly to a thermal catalytic reactor that uses heat derived from the sun to convert ethylene to butene.

Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules made of metallic atoms such as Iridium (Ir). Current theoretical and experimental methods have shown the existence of two isomers for Ir-Ir molecular systems, but researchers have not been able to predict the proportions of these two isomers or how they interact. This research combines ultrafast experimental measurements and numerical simulations to tease out key information about the two isomers in Ir-Ir complexes.

Two forms of gallium oxide come together in a "phase heterojunction" to create a sensitive ultraviolet detector.