Making a Psychologist: Vibe Coding a Data Collector
This is part 2 of Making a Psychologist, a blog series written in part to promote my good new textbook, Fundamentals of Biological Psychology: A Critical Perspective.…
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Following tiny footprints in an Albertan ancient floodplain with Ryusuke Kimutsuki
When you imagine the Cretaceous Period (145-66 million years ago), dinosaurs probably come to mind. This is certainly true for the famed Wapiti Formation of western Canada, which is host to a number of Cretaceous beasts from ~70 million years ago, including tyrannosaurids, hadrosaurs, and ceratopsians as well as their trackways, but also birds, fish, and early mammals.
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Permian water fleas reinterpreted as oldest record of clitellate worm cocoons
Clitellates (Clitellata: Annelida) are small, aquatic, segmented worms, including leeches and earthworms, that occupy many habitats from land, to freshwater, to oceans.…
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Beyond Sweetness: Why Stevia’s Hidden Genetic Wealth Matters
Written by Andres D. Sanabria-Velazquez, Ignacio Achon, Liliana N. Talavera-Stefani and Guillermo A. Enciso-Maldonado. The authors are researchers based in Paraguay and the United States.…
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Rumana Hossain
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Dr Rumana Hossain, UNSW Sydney, Australia a Cambridge Materials: Circularity Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
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Hierarchical regression analysis of FOQA data to predict touchdown G for the Boeing 787
Hazards such as runway incursions, runway excursions, and in-flight loss of control, are appropriately well documented and emphasised within aviation safety literature given their catastrophic potential. Less well known, yet operationally significant, is Abnormal Runway Contact (ARC), a category of hazardous events encompassing tail strikes, nose-wheel-first contacts, and hard landings.
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25 Years of Change: Wintering Waterbirds in South Korea
For migratory waterbirds, winter is not simply a season—it is a test. The quality of wetlands, rivers, estuaries, and agricultural fields during the non-breeding season can determine survival, body condition, and ultimately breeding success thousands of kilometres away. Yet despite the importance of wintering grounds, long-term national assessments remain rare.
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JFM Rapids: The Editors’ Insights 2026
JFM Rapids is a well-established section in JFM that continues to provide a highly visible venue for short, high-quality, articles addressing timely research challenges of broad interest. The Rapids editors have selected the most interesting recent articles to inspire and motivate your submission.
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When parasites get personal: A tick in the nose & a larva in the armpit (but that’s OK!)
A few years ago, I found a parasite in my armpit. It was the larva of a blowfly, and I knew pretty well what it was, based on where I’d gotten it – or at least I thought I did. Kibale National Park, Uganda, is known internationally for its diversity of nonhuman primates and among smaller circles for its high frequency of furuncular myiasis, a condition caused by parasitic fly larvae burrowing into the skin of a host.
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How Crime Responds to Deterrence: A Modeling Perspective
Modelling and understanding how crime responds to deterrence is an interesting yet ambitious undertaking. Crime is shaped by a web of social environments, economic incentives, institutional structures, and individual decision-making. Any formal model, no matter how sophisticated, must necessarily simplify this reality to make the problem analytically tractable
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Hao-Cheng Yang
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Hao-Cheng Yang, Zhejiang University, China a Cambridge Materials: Water Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
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March Releases from Cambridge Aspire, Part 2
An impressively comprehensive textbook adopting a phenomenological approach to quantum physics. The chapters cover everything from basic definitions of key concepts to detailed discussions of the underlying theoretical framework… Learn more here. …
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March Releases from Cambridge Aspire, Part 1
Understanding Modern Warfare has established itself as a leading text in professional military education and undergraduate teaching. This third edition has been revised throughout to reflect dramatic changes during the past decade.…
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450-million-year-old fossils show sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the concept that the male and female counterparts of the same species have differing morphologies. Whilst it may be easy to tell the difference in extant organisms, how can you differentiate sex when you have flattened shells that are almost half a billion years old?…
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It’s 3.14! To celebrate Pi Day, learn more about the latest research with Forum of Mathematics, Pi
Pi Day is celebrated around the world on the fourteenth day of the third month (3/14). The date representation of 3.14 is the most basic ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
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The quiet champions driving genital schistosomiasis research forward
In this highlight of the month series, Professor Amaya Bustinduy highlights three papers: Lemin et al., Neufeld et al. and Smith et al.…
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Volker Presser
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Volker Presser, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
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Bone Voyage! Transporting bones in unsteady flows
The bones of terrestrial vertebrates are often found in riverine sediments. However, this doesn’t always mean they were living nearby. The sheer nature of fluvial sediments means there is often a spectrum of distances travelled from origin to final deposition, especially when it comes to the interaction of bones with fluid flow.…
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Sexual interactions and unexpected group sizes in harbour porpoises.
The latest Paper of the Month for Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is Unmanned aerial vehicle footage of sexual interactions and atypical group sizes within harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) around archipelago of Shetland, UK and is available as open access.…
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Say ‘Aaaaa’! Insights into early reptilian herbivory across the End-Permian
Mass extinctions, though destructive to ecosystems, provide unique opportunities for evolution to take an unexpected direction as a result of changes to available habitats and food resources.…
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Responding to revision requests following peer-review in Journal of Dairy Research
In a future editorial, I will be addressing some of the challenges of peer-review in considerable detail, but for now I want to make some comments on how authors can respond to decision letters to make the process as quick, effective, and painless as possible.…
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Q&A with Wearable Technologies Associate Editor: Vineet Vashista
Associate Professor Vineet Vashista, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar answers our questions about their work and Cambridge University Press’s journal Wearable Technologies.
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125 Years of Epidemiology & Infection: meet the editors
To celebrate the 125th anniversary of Epidemiology & Infection, we asked Dr. Tim Wreghitt to share his experience of working in this field and as an Associate Editor for this prestigious journal.…
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Yan Zeng
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Yan Zeng, Florida State University, USA a Cambridge Materials: Energy Associate Editor discusses their research, recent advances in energy materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
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Helminth infections in fish farms and risks to wild trout
Introductions of alien species into new environments create major concerns including conservation and ecosystem disruption, agricultural production and economic loss. Problems are exacerbated where the introduced species transfer novel pathogens that carry new disease risks for native species.
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Introducing Journal of Tropical Ecology’s New Front Cover 2026
This year, we are thrilled to introduce The Journal of Tropical Ecology’s first cover competition, inviting contributors to submit images for potential inclusion on the journal’s front cover.…
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Public gardens prove valuable sentinels for invasive plants
A recently published research article that shows public gardens in the U.S. and Canada can serve as sentinels to invasive plant species in North America. Researchers examined data collected through Public Gardens as Sentinels against Invasive Plants (PGSIP), a project which links data from a network of botanical gardens and arboreta across North America to provide information on plants within their collection that are escaping cultivation.
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Tab orientation effect on jet mixing
In technological applications of jets, such as fuel-air mixing in the combustion chamber, reducing the infrared signature and noise level of the jet, rapid mixing of the jet with the surrounding fluid is required.
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Q&A with Wearable Technologies Associate Editor: Shaoping Bai
Professor Shaoping Bai, Aalborg University, Denmark answers our questions about their work and Cambridge University Press’s journal Wearable Technologies.
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Making a Psychologist: When AI meets Psychology
[This is Part 1 of a blog series called Making a Psychologist—about how AI is enablingscientists, big tech companies, and obscure Redditors alike to build systems that aresimultaneously horrifically invasive, but also enormously powerful, and if we’re lucky, verygood for our well-being.…
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Manny Teodoro
As part of an ongoing series of Q&As with our Cambridge Materials Board Members, Professor Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin, USA a Cambridge Materials: Water Editorial Board Member discusses their research, recent advances in materials, and perspectives on future challenges and opportunities in the field.
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Policy on editing peer-review reports for the Journal of Dairy Research
If you are publishing your manuscript in a journal published by a learned society or other not-for-profit organisation, you should consider that the editor in chief, the handling editors and the reviewers are members of your scientific community.
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Introducing Richard A. Marston, Honorary Fellow of the International Association of Geomorphologists
Dr. Richard A. Marston, co-author of Essentials of Geomorphology, attended the 11th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology in New Zealand. At the conference, he was selected as an Honorary Fellow and given a custom Māori walking stick.…
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Assessing interactions between wild host plants and stemborer species in East Africa
Understanding Stemborers Beyond the Field Across tropical and subtropical regions, stemborers remain among the most damaging pests of cereal crops. Although they are best known for attacking maize and sorghum, this study demonstrates that their ecology extends far beyond cultivated fields.…
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Executive Editor-in-Chief Yanlei Yu
Professor Yanlei Yu, Fudan University, China is the recently appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials. To celebrate her appointment and the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, she participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as a member of the Executive Editorial Board.
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Beyond the Bullseye: Investigating the Unexpected Dose in Real-Time Motion Tracking Tomotherapy
The paper “Surrounding dose investigation of real-time motion tracking system in tomotherapy“, published in Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download. …
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A Virtual Welcome to Radiotherapy
The paper “The design and initial service evaluation of a virtual tour of a radiotherapy department to improve patient experience“, published in Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available to download. …
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Why pilots sometimes persist when it’s safer to stop
The Aeronautical Journal February 2026 Vol 130 No 1344 Modern airline pilots operate in a highly proceduralised, wellregulated environment. It is often said that procedures are clear: if an approach is unstable, a go-around should be flown.…
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A Devonian pterygotid eurypterid playground in China.
Pterygotids (Eurypterida; Pterygotidae), known more commonly as ancient sea scorpions, were large apex predators of the Silurian-Devonian marine realm, and included some of the largest arthropods in Earth’s history, with some species reaching up to 2.5 meters in length. They are the only family of eurypterids to be found globally in marine deposits owing to their domination of the Mid-Palaeozoic seas.
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Punctuated Equilibria at 50: Revisiting Evolution’s Boldest Idea
Fifty years ago, palaeontologists Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould published one of the most provocative ideas in evolutionary science: punctuated equilibria. In their 1972 paper, they argued that species don’t always evolve through slow, steady change. Instead, the fossil record shows long periods of stasis, times when species remain remarkably stable, interrupted by brief bursts of evolutionary innovation linked to the origin of new species.
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Sharks help us to rebuild the tails of ancient marine monsters
When we picture mosasaurs, the giant marine reptiles that ruled the oceans during the Late Cretaceous, we often imagine long, snake-like monsters propelling through the water. But what did their tails really look like? The fossil record rarely preserves the soft tissues from which fins and muscles are constructed, leaving paleontologists with only bones to infer what these propulsive features may have looked like.
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Crinoid survivors bounce back in the aftermath of the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction
The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME) was the second largest mass extinction of the ‘Big Five’ extinctions in Earth’s history, responsible for the loss of approximately 85% of marine species. Following an important diversification in the middle Ordovician, crinoids experienced substantial loss during the LOME, and species saw a significant decrease in body size, known in paleontology as the ‘Lilliput Effect’.
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How the Earth’s first animals reclaimed the seafloor after catastrophe
The first geographically widespread animals in geological history appear in the Ediacaran period, in the Avalon assemblage, between 574 and 560 million years ago. The first animal communities were host to strange and unfamiliar organisms known as rangeomorphs and arboreomorphs, as well as more recognisable cnidarians (invertebrates like sea anemone and jellyfish).
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Why Chickpeas Don’t Always Grow the Same: The Impact of Weather
Chickpeas are a popular pantry staple and a major crop for farmers worldwide. However, they are sensitive to changes in weather, including rainfall, temperature, and sunlight. Our study, conducted in Australia, aimed to identify the weather and soil conditions that most significantly affect chickpea yields and water usage.
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The Journal of Dairy Research: an international journal approaching its centenary
The Journal of Dairy Research is an international journal, approaching its one-hundredth anniversary. The first issue of the first volume was published in print in November 1929 for the then National Institute for Research in Dairying (Reading, UK) and Hannah Dairy Research Institute (Ayr, also UK).…
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Smart sprayer study confirms AI’s cost-cutting capabilities
"This research demonstrated that significant herbicide use reductions are possible with smart sprayers compared with broadcast applications,” reports Anita Dille, Ph.D., WSSA member scientist, corresponding author, Kansas State University agronomy professor, and her research team.
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A Devonian pterygotid eurypterid playground in China
Pterygotids, known more commonly as ancient sea scorpions, were large apex predators of the Silurian-Devonian marine world. Their delicate skeletons, however, leave many questions about their morphology and ecology.…
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Fossil freeloaders: Rare evidence of parasitism in Ordovician Trilobites
A new study of from the Middle Ordovician of Estonia reveals some of the earliest evidence for parasitism in the fossil record.…
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Turning boil-off hydrogen from a loss into a resource – a metal-hydride concept for future sustainable aviation
Liquid hydrogen (LH2) is considered as a cornerstone of a low-carbon aviation future, yet the inevitable formation of hydrogen boil-off gas (BOG) is one of its main drawbacks.
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Congratulations! Introducing Parasitology’s New Front Cover for 2026 by Dr Beatriz Cancino-Faure
Each year Parasitology hosts an open competition for authors and readers to submit either photographs or associated computer graphic imagery. In so doing, we hope to capture the essence of contemporary parasitological research across the world.…
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Using electric current to suppress tall fescue seedheads
Recently published research in the journal Weed Technology shows that two electrical control treatments in pastures could substantially reduce tall fescue seedhead production without significantly diminishing forage yield.…
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Methods-Forward, discipline-agnostic: a CHR 2025 restrospective
Computational Humanities Research (CHR) was founded on the premise that a strong community of scholars, method developers, and software creators is essential for innovative, responsible computational work.…
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Publishing a ‘Software Paper’ in Computational Humanities Research: Undate
In my previous blog (‘Introducing the ‘Software Paper’), I introduce the Software Paper at Computational Humanities Research (CHR). In tandem with my editorial work as Associate Editor for the journal, an opportunity arose for me to write a Software Paper myself.…
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The Effectiveness of Using Virtual Reality Training Environments for Procedural Training in Fourth Generation Airliners
If Virtual Reality (VR) can be such a game-changer in terms of the human experience of learning, then why don’t we see more of it on a daily basis? This was the question that launched our study of its effectiveness in delivering training, and also one that continued to puzzle us throughout its initial phases.
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Executive Editor-in-Chief Professor David Haddleton
Professor David Haddleton, University of Warwick, UK participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the Cambridge Materials journals and his hopes for his role as a an Executive Editor-in-Chief.
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Cambridge Materials Q&A with Executive Editor-in-Chief Jason Robinson
Professor Jason Robinson, University of Cambridge, UK is teh recently appointed Executive Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials. To celebrate her appointment and the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, he participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as a member of the Executive Editorial Board.
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Climate Informatics 2025: Exploring Climate Science and Data Science in the Global South
As many readers will know, COP30, the UN climate conference, got underway in Belém, Brazil this month. In this blog post, we’re pleased to report on another conference that was successfully held in Brazil earlier this year, showcasing the use of innovative data-driven approaches to understand changes to the climate.…
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Cambridge Materials: Water Q&A with Seth B. Darling
Dr. Seth B. Darling Argonne National Laboratory, USA is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Water. To celebrate the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, they participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as EiC.…
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Cambridge Materials: Energy Q&A with Tierui Zhang
Professor Tierui Zhang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Energy.…
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Cambridge Materials: Circularity Q&A with Veena Sahajwalla
Professor Veena Sahajwalla UNSW Sydney, Australia is the recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Materials: Circularity. To celebrate the launch of the Cambridge Materials journals, they participated in a Q&A to discuss the aims of the journals and their hopes for their role as EiC.…
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Introducing Cambridge Materials [UPDATED February 2026]
Announcing the launch of Cambridge Materials, a suite of four new journals dedicated to advancing materials science in the service of global sustainability. Each journal focuses on a critical challenge area—Circularity, Energy, Health, and Water—and is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, they will provide a unique platform where science, engineering, and policy intersect to drive real-world impact.
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AI and the Loss of Critical Thinking (A-LOC)
How useful is AI for aeronautical research? ROBERT E JOSLIN, Ph.D., FRAeS Associate Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, asks whether AI - Loss of Critical Thinking (A-LOC) is a rising risk for students, academics and aerospace professionals.
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Babies and Botulism: Communicating Risk in the By Heart Infant Formula Emergency
Communicating risk information during emergencies is at best challenging, at worst deadly. Fortunately, there are evidence-based strategies to aid health and medical professionals to clearly communicate risk information.…
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Introducing the ‘Software Paper’: New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ultimately impossible to turn down was the journal’s interest in publishing Software Papers.…
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Exploring How Helideck Surface Conditions Shape Helicopter Safety: A Machine Learning Perspective
Helicopter operations on offshore platforms represent one of the most safety-critical aspects of maritime and energy sector logistics. In such environments, even small variations in helideck surface conditions can profoundly influence helicopter performance during landing, take-off, and ground handling.
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Beyond the Dissertation: My Journey from Student Research to Published Article
From undergraduate dissertation to journal publication. Multiple versions of one piece of work to meet different criteria. My dissertation was personal.…
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Developing a novel machine learning-based index (ISA) for reproductive cow selection for wetlands
Traversing a time marked by frequent revisionist intentions, the revaluation of findings, and the high speed of information suggested by modern algorithms, we recognise the real need to incorporate different approaches into the strong bioenvironmental system, shaped by the fundamental interaction between cattle–environment–humans, with branches leading towards strategic aspects of today, such as: the production of animal-based protein, the rational use of sensitive environmental systems, animal welfare, traditional socio-economic sectors, alongside the powerful tools of artificial intelligence, inferential statistics, and mathematical equations.
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Can a millenia-old ploughing tradition compete with modern low-disturbance systems in Ireland’s wet climate?
Across Ireland’s arable area, a large proportion of winter wheat and other combinable crops are still established using plough-based systems – a practice developed millennia ago. Ploughing involves inverting the soil to create a fine seedbed that supports crop germination and growth.
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Glowing Green and Carnivorous: New Fluorescent Pitcher Plant Hybrid Found in Peninsular Malaysia
The journey began in 2015, driven by my deep passion for tropical pitcher plants—carnivorous plants that feed on animals! That passion took me to many remote mountain summits across Peninsular Malaysia, hoping to observe these plants in their natural habitat and discover rare, unknown species. In 2018, a striking and unfamiliar pitcher plant was sighted on a lesser-known mountain.
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Personalising Dental Extractions Before Radiotherapy: A Data-Driven Approach to Guide Pre-Radiotherapy Teeth Extractions
Before radiotherapy begins for head and neck cancer, there’s often a critical decision to make: should certain teeth be removed to reduce the risk of complications like osteoradionecrosis (ORN)?…
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Compositio Mathematica authors to receive 2025 Frontiers of Science award
Compositio Mathematica is thrilled to congratulate Luisa Fiorot, Teresa Monteiro Fernandes, and Claude Sabbah on receiving a prestigious 2025 Frontiers of Science Award for their paper, "Relative regular Riemann-Hilbert correspondence. II." published in our journal.
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Supporting future doctors: Essential Guides to the UKMLA
Starting in 2024-2025, all UK based medical students must pass the Medical Licensing Assessment at the end of their degree to qualify to practice as doctors.…
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South Australian reef productivity showcased in Southern Rock Lobster study
The latest Paper of the Month for Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom is Marine park monitoring informs productivity potential of a southern rock lobster resource in South Australia and is available as open access.…
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How Preemergent Herbicides May Be Driving Waterhemp Resistance
A new Weed Science Society of America research article highlights the need for stewardship to preserve PPO-inhibitor herbicides as an effective waterhemp control option
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Living Within Biodiversity’s Web: Ranching, Resilience, and Climate Change in Baja Sur
For centuries life in the interior ranches of Baja California Sur has been lived in a close rhythm with the land.…
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Feathers, Forests, and the Future: Uncovering Bird Diversity in Mexico’s Dry Mountains
Early morning in the dry mountains of southern Mexico, the calls of chachalacas echo through the branches of a Pochote tree. As ornithologists, we’re exploring the bird communities of the Neotropical Seasonal Dry Forests (NSDFs), a diverse and often-overlooked group of tropical ecosystems in the American mountains.…
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Are Lagerstätten the key to unlocking the ancient arthropod world?
From tenacious trilobites, to scavenging shrimp, for the last 500 million years of Earth’s history, marine arthropods have scuttled around the sea floor, forming a dominant part of the ocean’s ecosystem.…
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New fossil, Domipteron, sheds light on net-winged beetle evolution
Net winged beetles (Lycidae) are cosmopolitan pollinators, known for their intricate vein-like wing patterns and eye-catching colours, but behind these diverse delicate beetles lies an evolutionary enigma.…
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Parasitology supports Global Handwashing Day
Every year on 15 October, Global Handwashing Day reminds us of the critical role hand hygiene plays in protecting health and preventing disease. The 2025 theme, “It Might Be Gloves. It’s Always Hand Hygiene,” reinforces that even when gloves are used, hand hygiene remains essential.
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Did early eukaryotes really radiate in the Tonian?
https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.33 Since the 1980s Precambrian palaeontologists believed that early eukaryotes (Domain: Eukarya, microorganisms with a membrane bound nucleus) underwent a dramatic diversification in the Tonian Period (1000-720Ma).…
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Celebrating 50 years of Paleobiology: revolutionary ideas on evolution
https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.4 From its revolutionary beginnings in 1975, and an aim to marry biology and palaeontology to answer key evolutionary questions, Paleobiology continues to put innovative fossil and evolution research at its forefront.…
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Exploring the Frontiers of Fluid Mechanics: Highlights from the JFM/FLOW Symposium China 2025
From August 31 to September 2, 2025, Peking University hosted the JFM/FLOW Symposium China: From Fundamentals to Applications in Fluid Mechanics, a landmark event that brought together global leaders in fluid mechanics research.
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Study on the dynamic modelling method of a coilable mast based on hinge equivalent rotational stiffness identification
Deployable structures are a class of structures that can be stowed in a narrow envelope during the rocket launch phase and deployed after the spacecraft enters orbit. Coilable masts are among the most commonly used types of deployable structures because of their high packing coefficient and high strength-to-weight ratio.
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The secrets of espresso brewing
During the brewing process of an espresso, hot water flows through a cylindrical filter that is densely packed with coffee grounds. Along the way, chemicals are extracted such that the liquid leaving the filter is not pure water anymore, but espresso. The concentration of dissolved chemicals in the liquid that comes out of the machine is the quantity of interest in a wide range of mathematical models for espresso brewing.
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Journal of Dairy Research: Meet the New Editor-in-Chief Nick Jonsson
The Journal of Dairy Research (JDR) is special. It is owned by the Hannah Dairy Research Foundation, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) SC007058. Although the Editor in Chief has complete independence from the HDRF, the Foundation is intended to “support all aspects of dairy research including the biology, wellbeing of dairy animals, dairy technology and food production.
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Apps are making personalised health advice possible – but what do people think about their privacy risks?
Image Credit: Unsplash/Luke Chesser Personalised recommendations for goods and services are increasingly common, from algorithms that tailor social media content to individual users to adverts that adapt to purchase histories.…
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How cadaver scarcity shaped the racial science of skin in Enlightenment Europe
This blog post is based on the article ‘Abraham Bäck, scarcity, and the racial anatomy of skin’ published in The Historical Journal: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X25101039…
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Hybrid Parasites: detecting admixture between species genomes
New research uncovers how two marine nematode parasites are interbreeding, in a contact area of their range of distribution
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Fall-Applied Strategies for Managing Resistant Ryegrass
Fall-applied residual herbicides are among the best available options to use for glyphosate-resistant (GR) Italian ryegrass control, according to a newly published research article in the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) Weed Technology journal.…
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When Justice Becomes Code: Rebuilding Trust when AI enters Courts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into courtrooms worldwide, promising efficiency and consistency in judicial decision-making. From predicting case outcomes to drafting legal documents, AI tools are reshaping the way courts operate.
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JFM Q&A with Yue Yang
Yue Yang – Peking University has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, they participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
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Advances in Unsteady Computational Aerodynamics with Separation: The 61st Lanchester Memorial Lecture
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a burgeoning sector of the Aerospace industry exploring new design concepts from multi-passenger vehicles to small uncrewed autonomous systems for observations. These applications also expand operations into airspaces that were not previously engaged in commercial operations. The compounding of these with traditional aerospace vehicles and operations requires accuracy in aerodynamic analyses.
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Balancing Act: How Starch and β-Hydroxybutyrate Affect Hindgut Fermentation in Early Lactation Cows
The paper “The effect of abomasal infusion of corn starch and β-hydroxybutyrate on hindgut microbial fermentation kinetics in early lactating dairy cows measured by the in vitro gas production technique“, published in The Journal of Agricultural Science, has been chosen as the latest Editorial Highlight and is freely available.…
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On the puzzling geography of blowguns
You may be familiar with the blowgun, which appears as a five-minute DIY, life-saving weapon in some popular movies and series (e.g.,…
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Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is?
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
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Happy 100th Birthday Quantum Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics celebrates its centenary in 2025, but we should update how we teach it, say Cambridge authors Asma Al-Qasimi and Daniel F. V. James.
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The Big Chill: How Cryo-Electron Tomography Is Transforming Structural Biology
Understanding how biological molecules work inside cells is one of the central goals of structural biology. For many years, researchers had to study molecules outside their natural environment, which often meant losing important biological context.…
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A Tiny Stowaway with a Big Story: Discovering a New Galápagos Tapeworm
The Galápagos Islands are famous for inspiring Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection — their unique plants and animals have been studied for over a century.…
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JFM Q&A with Daniel Chung
Daniel Chung – University of Melbourne has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, they participated in a Q&A with the Journal.
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Can dietary additives in combination be potentiated to help laying hens at an advanced age?
Genetic advances have made it possible for commercial laying hen lines to remainlonger in production. However, after peak production, due to a series of physiological and hormonal changes with age, there will naturally be a decline in performance and egg quality.
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