Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
How future compound drought-heatwave events would affect our society and ecosystem?
By combining hydrology, vegetation remote sensing and atmospheric dynamics, we attempted to understand the shifts in compound hazards as well as their impacts on our socio-ecosystem.
Digging deeper: Dielectric Mie voids
We introduce voids in high-index materials as novel building blocks for nanophotonics, pushing the operational wavelength into the blue and UV spectral range.
Diagnosing liver fibrosis in hepatitis B patients in Africa: can we use low-cost biomarkers?
Low-cost biomarkers using routinely available blood tests are used to make treatment decisions for patients with hepatitis B. How well do these work in Africa, where over 80 million people are living with chronic infection?
How amygdala plays in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Magnetic resonance imaging reveals a specific role of amygdala subregions
Accumulating evidence show amygdala involved in obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD). Prior studies typically examined the amygdala as a homogeneous structure. Here we segment the amygdala with connectivity-based parcellation approach and suggest disorganized amygdala subregional networks in OCD.
From sea level to high topography, the uplift of the Qaidam Basin, northern Tibetan Plateau since the Middle Miocene
“By identifying marine alkenones and anomalously high carbonate carbon isotopic values, Sun et al. suggest that the Qaidam Basin in the northern Tibetan Plateau was uplifted from sea level to its present altitude since the Mid-Miocene.”
