Charles Smith

Human history through tree rings: Trees in Amazonia reveal pre-colonial human disturbance

04.04.2019 09:34 AM

New study shows that tropical trees act as a living record of past human activity in the Amazon In a new paper published in PLOS ONE, an international team of scientists reports the combined use of dendrochronology and historical survey to investigate the effects of societal and demographic changes on forest disturbances and growth dynamics in a neotropical tree species, the Brazil nut tree.

Wild insects 'get old' before they die

01.14.2019 11:38 AM

Short-lived wild insects "get old" - losing some of their physical abilities - before they die, new research shows.

Next generation photonic memory devices are light-written, ultrafast and energy efficient

01.14.2019 11:27 AM

Researchers of the Institute of Photonic Integration of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have developed a 'hybrid technology' which shows the advantages of both light and magnetic hard drives.

Double star system flips planet-forming disk into pole position

01.14.2019 11:12 AM

New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars