Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
When mammalian tooth heights predict a savanna, but plant fossils don’t
The reconstruction of ancient environments depends on proxies from earth and climate science combined with animal and plant fossils. No single proxy will tell the whole story. Or so you’d think.
Mendel meets Tilman – a most daring genetic mapping project
In our recent paper, my co-author Pascal Niklaus and I describe a journey to the genetic roots of poorly understood ecological phenomena.
Breaking the record of magnetic anisotropy in transition-metal dimers
Magnetic anisotropy is one of the critical magnetic properties of magnetic nanostructures. In our Communications Physics paper "Large magnetic anisotropy in chemically engineered iridium dimer" we show the chemical way to boost the magnetic anisotropy energy in iridium dimer to enormously large value.
A global test of ecoregions: Behind the paper
I believe that, by and large, we can break research projects into two main groups.
