Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
Rewetted fen peatlands - novel and essential for climate protection
Peatlands store twice as much carbon as all the biomass of the World’s forests. Vast areas of peatland have been drained and turned into CO2 sources. Their rewetting is essential to reduce CO2 emissions. But how exactly do the rewetted peatlands look like, do they resemble again the natural state?
Chemistry in plasmonic nanocavities
While trying to experimentally uncover what is the physical mechanism that governs plasmon-mediated chemistry, its energy-dependent nature was revealed.
Glacial lake outburst floods enhance benthic microbial productivity in perennially ice-covered Lake Untersee (East Antarctica).
Our Communications Earth & Environment study presents evidence that glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) may provide biological stimuli to carbon dioxide-depleted benthic ecosystems in perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes and perhaps even in icy lakes on early Mars.
Non-line-of-sight reconstruction with signal-object collaborative regularization
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging aims at recovering obscured objects from multiple scattered light. Our recent work provides a signal-object collaborative regularization (SOCR) framework for high-quality and noise-robust NLOS reconstructions.
