Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Aerosols from boreal fires are making the Arctic warmer!
Climate warming is widely recognized as a key driver of boreal wildfires. Our satellite-constrained modelling reveals a positive feedback loop: boreal fires, driven largely by climate warming, intensify Arctic warming through aerosol emissions.
The effects of obesity
One of the unanswered questions about obesity is how it correlates with a myriad of diseases such as heart failure, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, osteoarthritis, and various cancers.
Wrangling a de novo sequencing benchmark
In any machine learning study, high quality data for training and validating the model is critical. This paper describes the result of an iterative process of data wrangling and quality control, which ultimately produced a benchmark dataset for de novo peptide sequencing from mass spectrometry data.
The effect of autistic traits on the perception of action formidableness and friendliness
Actions are the principal way we influence the world, and determining how humans perceive other peoples’ actions tells us how we make sense of each others' behaviour. Our research measured how we perceive the two key action qualities underpinning action evaluation and how Autism might impact this.