Welcome to our newsletter! These weekly updates showcase innovative research projects and publications authored by experts at leading institutions, spanning multiple fields of study.
This week is National Marine Week 2022.
From the 23 July to 7 August, The Wildlife Trust is celebrating all things marine, with events taking place across the UK. Included in this week’s newsletter are stories that focus on the study of marine life, ocean conservation and microplastic levels in the ocean.
The Politics of Pacific Ocean Conservation: Lessons from the Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve
–Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne
Estimating the levels of microplastics in our oceans
–Erik van Sebille et al.
A novel system of underwater video cameras to study marine life
–P. J. Bouchet and J. J. Meeuwig
Featured Project
Revisiting the double-slit experiment---Curved Interference Pattern
New experiments designed by physicist, Dr Hui Peng, explore the mysterious behaviour of light. Thomas Young’s famous double-slit experiment, overturned Isaac Newton’s conception of light as a collection of particles. However, the advent of quantum mechanics proved both physicists right: light is both particle and wave.
Featured Project
Unravelling the Neurotoxic Effects of Metals and the Clinical Potential of Natural Compounds
Professor Dietrich Büsselberg, of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, is a physiologist and biophysicist, who has dedicated the past 30 years of his career to researching the mechanisms by which metal ions, metal-containing organic compounds, and other biologically active compounds influence the human nervous system.
Kudos Staff Picks
Opening the gate: how a fungus finds its way into a tree root
–Jamil Chowdhury et al., Wiley, July 2022
Inspecting Ships Using Artificial Intelligence
–Ríán Derrig, Brill, June 2022
Using Social Media Platforms to Model Wildfires
–Jake Lever et al., ACM, June 2022
Kudos COVID Knowledge Cooperative
Using maps to accurately convey information on the COVID-19 pandemic
–Claus Rinner, UTPress, March 2021
How ‘staying at home’ during the pandemic put a strain on families
–Stella R. Quah, UTPress, October 2020
Long-term efficacy of the BNT162b2 vaccine against COVID-19 in patients with cancer
–Ithai Waldhorn at al., American Association for Cancer Research, September 2021
Kudos Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative
Research in the 1960s showed temperature is affected by carbon dioxide levels
–Syukuro Manabe and Richard T. Wetherald, American Meteorological Society, May 1967
A model to tell earth’s natural climatic patterns apart from human-caused climate change
–A. Gavrilov, S. Kravtsov and D. Mukhin, AIP Publishing, December 2020
Are you using plastics in your garden? You could be causing microplastic pollution
–Zahra Sobhani et al., Frontiers, October 2021
