Climate change is causing the oceans to become notably more acidic. This could become a problem for sharks, as a team of biologists headed by Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has discovered. In the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science, the research team describes that a more acidic environment weakens the teeth of sharks, causing them to break more easily, which in turn causes the predators to lose their bite.

A giant anomalous Hall effect (AHE) has been observed in a nonmagnetic material for the first time, as reported by researchers from Japan. This surprising result was achieved using high-quality Cd₃As₂ thin films, a Dirac semimetal, under an in-plane magnetic field. By modulating the material’s band structure, the team isolated the AHE and traced its origin to orbital magnetization rather than spin, challenging long-held assumptions in condensed matter physics.

Nanoparticle properties can be tuned by controlling their sizes, making them highly attractive in science and industry. However, the mechanisms and dynamics of their growth remain unclear. Researchers present a new equation and theory that quantitatively explains the size- and time-dependent nanoparticle growth, finally replacing the century-old Gibbs-Thomson equation and the classical nucleation theory. This theory serves as a powerful framework for predicting and controlling nanoparticle shape and size by advancing nanoparticle research.

Chemical process simulations are crucial for optimizing industrial operations, but they often require significant computational resources. Now, researchers have developed a new parallel computing framework that dramatically speeds up these simulations by using advanced task graph techniques. Find out how this innovative approach could transform the efficiency of large-scale chemical processes!