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31-Mar-2025

Enhanced westerly winds lead to increased ocean heat transport to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Hokkaido University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Enhanced westerly winds associated with global warming will strengthen the clockwise circulations and heat transport to the ice sheet in the East Antarctic coastal area.

Journal: Geophysical Research Letters
Funder: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition, National Institute of Polar Research, SOKENDAI, Hokkaido University

31-Mar-2025

A new clue to how multicellular life may have evolved

Emory University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

Journal: Nature Physics
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Marine Biological Laboratory, Emory University

31-Mar-2025

Flatiron Institute becomes new hub for stellar evolution software suite MESA

Simons Foundation
Business Announcement

As part of its commitment to unraveling the universe’s mysteries through sustained support of the astrophysics community, the Flatiron Institute is securing the future of MESA (Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics), an open-source software suite that has transformed how researchers model the evolution of stars. The Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) is stepping up to support MESA’s need for ongoing maintenance and continued development. CCA has hired Philip Mocz as a full-time software engineer to help ensure MESA’s bright future for the collective benefit of the astrophysics community.

31-Mar-2025

The proportion of harmful substances in particulate matter is much higher than assumed

University of Basel
Peer-Reviewed Publication

People breathing contaminated air over the course of years are at greater risk of developing numerous diseases. This is thought to be due to highly reactive components in particulate matter, which affect biological processes in the body. However, researchers from the University of Basel, Switzerland, have now shown that precisely these components disappear within hours and that previous measurements therefore completely underestimate the quantities in which they are present.