Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

Transposable elements as essential elements in the control of gene expression

A Gebrie - Mobile DNA, 2023 - Springer
Interspersed repetitions called transposable elements (TEs), commonly referred to as mobile
elements, make up a significant portion of the genomes of higher animals. TEs contribute in …

SARS-CoV-2 vaccination induces mucosal antibody responses in previously infected individuals

K Sano, D Bhavsar, G Singh, D Floda… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immune responses at the respiratory mucosal interface are critical to prevent respiratory
infections but it is unclear to what extent antigen specific mucosal secretory IgA (SIgA) …

Building a fault-tolerant quantum computer using concatenated cat codes

C Chamberland, K Noh, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
We present a comprehensive architectural analysis for a proposed fault-tolerant quantum
computer based on cat codes concatenated with outer quantum error-correcting codes. For …

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

Y Li, PM Brando, DC Morton, DM Lawrence… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biophysical effects from deforestation have the potential to amplify carbon losses but are
often neglected in carbon accounting systems. Here we use both Earth system model …

Analytical transmission electron microscopy for emerging advanced materials

Y Lin, M Zhou, X Tai, H Li, X Han, J Yu - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
With remarkable achievements in spatial resolution and its derived analytical techniques,
transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been capable of probing enriched information …

C60 Fullerenol to Stabilize and Activate Ru Nanoparticles for Highly Efficient Hydrogen Evolution Reaction in Alkaline Media

Y Li, T Xu, Q Huang, L Zhu, Y Yan, P Peng, FF Li - ACS Catalysis, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ruthenium (Ru)-based catalysts exhibited great potential for the alkaline hydrogen evolution
reaction. However, the strong adsorption of H on the Ru surface and the undesirable …

High-performance nitrogen photofixation by Bi2Sn2O7 nanoparticles enriched with oxygen vacancies

S Gao, R Wu, M Sun, M Guo, DB DuBois… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of effective technologies for artificial nitrogen fixation under mild
conditions is of fundamental and technological significance, as the traditional production of …

Photothermal effect and continuous hot electrons injection synergistically induced enhanced molecular oxygen activation for efficient selective oxidation of benzyl …

Z Yang, X Xia, W Yang, Y Liu - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021 - Elsevier
The molecular oxygen activation (MOA) process tends to be the rate-limiting step for
photocatalytic selective organic transformation such as aromatic alcohol oxidation. Herein …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation

CCS Tan, SD Lam, D Richard, CJ Owen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, can infect a wide
range of mammals. Since its spread in humans, secondary host jumps of SARS-CoV-2 from …