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Declines in deforestation aren’t driven by corporate sustainability pledges

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Tropical forests are essential for biodiversity, climate regulation and carbon storage. Yet they continue to disappear at an alarming rate.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Is using screens to calm a child bad? It depends.

Ohio State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from The Ohio State University looked how using technology to regulate young children’s emotions affects their cognitive development, and found it isn’t a one-size-fits-all story.

Journal: Journal of Communication

Metals’ atomic arrangement can create ‘corrosion highways’ in nuclear reactors

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using computer simulations, a team led by engineers at Penn State found that adjusting subtle atomic arrangements — even in identical baseline chemical compositions — can affect the metal corrosion rate and extent caused by the extreme chemical environment in advanced nuclear reactors can start to corrode the metals comprising the reactor.

Journal: Corrosion Science

New method aims to keep kids safe from illegal AI-generated content

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers developed an evaluation procedure that tests generative AI models for harmful capabilities without generating outputs. This could enable auditors to identify open-source models that have been adapted to produce illegal content, like child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Funder: Bridgewater AIA Labs Research Fellowship

Study finds carbon capture and storage could help curb emissions from AI-driven data center boom

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As artificial intelligence accelerates demand for computing power across the U.S., a new study co-authored by Hon Chung Lau, adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University and founder of Low Carbon Energies LLC, has found that carbon capture and storage could play a major role in limiting the climate impact of data centers.

Journal: Energy & Fuels

New imaging technology tracks cellular roots of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS

University of Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

Using a groundbreaking imaging technique, a University of Houston chemist is uncovering how copper imbalances in the body may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS.

New electrochemical device targets climate change by sucking CO2 out of air

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Engineers have developed a new way to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere using a process similar to charging and discharging a battery — an advance that could help address the planet’s excess CO2 problem.

Journal: Environmental Science & Technology

New technique sheds light on longstanding debates about ferroelectric materials

North Carolina State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New findings are shedding light on longstanding debates over the behavior of ferroelectric materials when those materials are exposed to electric fields. The findings stem from the use of a novel technique that allows researchers to observe the real-time behavior of domain walls in ferroelectric materials as they are “poled” and “depoled.”

Journal: Advanced Science
Funder: Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Office of Naval Research

Unveiling China's lake secrets: Climate and pollution drive vast carbon shifts

Carbon Research, Shenyang Agricultural University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Lakes, often called the 'lungs of the land,' play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle, acting as significant reservoirs of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and sources of greenhouse gases. Understanding how this vital organic carbon pool responds to environmental changes is crucial, yet large-scale drivers of lake DOM composition and their interaction with climate change have remained poorly understood. A comprehensive study led by Siyue Li from the Wuhan Institute of Technology has provided unprecedented insights into these dynamics across China's diverse lake ecosystems.

Journal: Carbon Research
Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Hubei Province Major Special Project for the Development of Agricultural Microbial Industry, Scientific Research Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology, Scientific Research Foundation of Wuhan Institute of Technology