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Investigating biotic, chemical, and physical drivers of periphyton and invertebrate biomass in boreal streams supporting juvenile Atlantic salmon

18/09/2026 - 1. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are an anadromous fish with a broad distribution from eastern North America to western Europe, with ecological, economic, and cultural significance. Despite their...

Plug-in solar panels still have safety risks in the UK despite legalisation

17/09/2026 - Plug-in solar panels offer reduced bills and can help boost renewable energy on Great Britain's grid, but concerns around their safety remain

The past and potential antagonistic effects of fishing ban against nutrient loading control on eutrophication restoration in Lake Hongze

09/09/2026 - Integrated management strategies are often implemented to achieve comprehensive environmental restoration; however, the potential antagonistic effects among such measures are seldom examined. Fishing...

Strain-Level Diversity Decouples Biofilm Architecture, Acidogenic and Aciduric Traits, and Antimicrobial Tolerance in Streptococcus mutans

26/08/2026 - Streptococcus mutans is a key contributor to dental caries, with its capacity to form structured biofilm microcolonies being a principal component of its cariogenic potential. Yet, most mechanistic...

Can nuclear reactors hit the road?

26/08/2026

Scientists detect a nuclear reactor’s ghostly afterglow for the first time

14/08/2026 - Nuclear reactors may go dark, but their fuel continues producing a faint antineutrino “glow” long after shutdown. Researchers have now detected that residual signal for the first time, finding it...

Heterogeneous climatic controls on tropical-forest biomass

12/08/2026

WildFireGS: Physics-Based Wildfire Simulation in Large-Scale Semantics-Enriched Gaussian Splatting Forest Scenes

- Climate-driven environmental change is driving an increase in both the frequency and severity of wildfire events, making accurate simulation and prediction critical for effective risk mitigation and...

Deployment Is Not Destiny: Robot Recomposition in the Field with Unseen Software, Hardware, and Compute Payloads

- The tight coupling of subsystems in most robots, though a natural consequence of their complexity, leads to monolithic designs that are time-consuming and difficult to adapt after initial deployment....

Control of hybrid wind-wave energy systems using reinforcement learning

- Integrating wave energy converters (WECs) with floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs), to form hybrid wind-wave energy (HWWE) systems, is a promising approach to achieve further cost reduction for...

Closed-Loop LLM Co-Pilots for Digital Agriculture

- This study evaluates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in complex biological systems, evolving from data analysis to autonomous, AI-guided experimentation. The framework is driven by...

Integrating spectral and morphological plant features with decision-tree models for early-season cotton biomass and nitrogen status estimation from multi-year UAV data

- Precision nitrogen (N) management (PNM) for cotton requires in-season monitoring of crop growth parameters and N status indicators to decide fertilizer timing, placement, and application rates for...

GPU-Accelerated Orbit Propagation with High-Fidelity Solar Radiation Pressure Modeling

- Solar Radiation Pressure (SRP), the force exerted by photons emitted by the Sun, is one of the main non-gravitational perturbations affecting spacecraft trajectories, making its accurate modeling...

Drought and heat push Europe’s power grid to breaking point

07/08/2026 - High temperatures and low water levels have forced several countries to shut down nuclear reactors just as citizens turn up their air conditioning, forcing energy prices to spike and raising the...

Above-ground Biomass Estimation with Geospatial Foundation Models

- Accurate estimation of Above-Ground Biomass (AGB) from satellite imagery is essential for the large-scale monitoring of carbon stocks, yet it remains a challenging regression task at global scale....

MINT: Tensor Decomposition on Stacked Recurrence Matrices for Time Series Data Mining

- Recurrence plots are a time series data mining primitive applied to a variety of domains (e.g. star light curves, sound waveforms, CCT telemetry). This work proposes tensorized self-similarity...

Coordinated Primary Frequency Regulation and Grid-Forming Control for Wind Turbine Generators

- Conventional grid-forming (GFM) control strategies often treat the DC source as an unconstrained link, creating mismatches when applied to the wind turbine generators (WTGs). Focusing on primary...

Foundation-Model Earth Representations Enable Regional-Scale Forest Aboveground Biomass Monitoring Across the Northeastern United States

- Forest aboveground biomass (AGB) is a critical indicator of ecosystem productivity and terrestrial carbon storage, yet regional carbon monitoring remains constrained by the sparse spatial and...

BladeYOLO: Wind Turbine Blade Defect Detection with Limited Annotations and Weak-Saliency Awareness

- Wind turbine blade defect detection remains highly challenging in real-world inspection scenarios due to limited on-site data and the subtle visual characteristics of defects. In practice, blade...

From Crop and Energy Data to Optimized Lighting Scheduling: A Surrogate-Based MILP Framework for Vertical Farming

- Vertical farming enables high productivity and stable crop production under controlled conditions, but its economic feasibility remains limited by electricity demand for artificial lighting and...

A Two-Regime Statistical Framework for Wind-Power Distributions: From Wind-Speed Fluctuations to Turbine Control

- Wind-power variability is a major challenge for the reliable integration of utility-scale wind energy into modern power systems. Although wind-speed statistics are often described by simple...