Arizona State University

Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game for experiential reimagination of social-environmental futures

Social dilemmas are central to addressing biodiversity loss, yet tools to make them tangible remain critically scarce. Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game provides an engaging and hands-on experience to explore social dilemmas between short- and long-term, individual a...

Volatile eutectics to tailor crystallization for perovskite optoelectronics

Improvements to the radiative efficiency of halide perovskite thin films are necessary to approach fundamental solar cell performance limits. We tailored perovskite crystallization by leveraging the eutectic interaction between zinc bromide and methylammonium chloride additives....

Foliar polystyrene nanoplastics modulate cadmium uptake and root-to-shoot translocation in hydroponic Spinacia oleracea L.: Time- and concentration-dependent responses

The accumulation of plastics and heavy metals (HMs) in the environment has become a significant global concern due to their persistence, ubiquity, and potential ecological impacts. Atmospheric micro- and nanoplastics (MP, NP) are capable of undergoing long-range transport and can...

Mutual Adaptation and Influence: Review of Latent Dynamics Models in Human–Robot Interaction

Recent advances in robotics have enabled more dynamic and interactive roles when working with humans. This progress is enabled in part by latent state models, which allow the robot to predict human actions in a compact and tractable way. This paradigm has allowed robots not only...

Affibody-based approaches as potential therapeutics for breast cancer: mechanisms, applications, and future perspectives

Breast cancer presents a significant therapeutic challenge due to the substantial molecular and genetic diversity among its subtypes, thereby necessitating the development of refined intervention strategies. Macromolecular therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies, are often hinde...

Prehistoric global migration of vanishing gut microbes with humans

The gut microbiome is crucial for health and is affected strongly by lifestyle1. Many microorganisms commonly found in non-industrialized populations are disappearing or have become extinct in industrialized populations2–6. Studying which microorganisms have been long-term reside...

Selective sparsity–enhanced synchronization in disordered semiconductor laser networks

Biological networks tend to leverage selective sparsity as an economic strategy to optimize function while minimizing wiring costs. In contrast, achieving synchronization in engineered systems such as semiconductor laser arrays is traditionally expected to require resource-intens...

Alzheimer’s disease neuropathological characterization of the dog brain and relationship to biofluid biomarkers and cognitive function

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting more than 55 million people worldwide and is characterized by cognitive decline, amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Although transgenic rodent models have advanced understanding of...

Large language model-assisted discovery of dopants for enhanced thermoelectric performance in CoSb₃-based skutterudites

We present a data-driven approach for accelerating the discovery of high-performance CoSb₃-based skutterudites by curating a comprehensive dataset of compositions with various filler elements from over 300 research articles. Leveraging large language models (LLMs), we extract and...

Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2026 [preprint]

ABSTRACT Building on an open call for expert input, this annual synthesis presents ten recent research advances with high policy relevance. These include Earth’s increasing energy imbalance and its relationship with ocean heat content (Insight 1); ice-mass loss and related sea-le...

Leaders’ empathy in crisis: untangling the value of emotional empathy and perspective-taking

Purpose This study examines the distinct influence of CEOs’ cognitive and emotional empathy responses to an environmental crisis. Grounded in König et al.’s (2020) theory of empathetic leadership, our research aims to untangle how different dimensions of empathy impact leaders' d...

Silane, Germane, and Stannane Activation by an Iron Dinitrogen Compound to Access Dimetallotetrylides

Abstract Upon adding Group 14 hydride gases to the recently prepared iron dinitrogen dimer, [(Triphos)Fe]2(μ-N2) (Triphos = H3CC(CH2PPh2)3), a generalized methodology for the preparation of diirontetrylides has been realized. The all-bond activation of SiH4 afforded the correspon...

Romance changes everything: player engagement with romantic video game content

This study investigates the diverse ways that players engage with romantic video game content, addressing a gap in existing player typologies. Drawing on hundreds of hours of gameplay and a decade of online community observation, we extend research on player classification by hig...

Raman Spectroscopy at Metal Interfaces: A Numerical Study of the Strong Coupling Regime

Abstract We investigate how proximity to a metal nanostructure, particularly to a flat mirror or a cavity confined between two mirrors, affects the vibronic structure of the Raman scattering signals. We find that such proximity, particularly for the strong-coupling situation enco...

SLUSCHI-UP: A web infrastructure for SLUSCHI melting-temperature calculations using universal machine-learning interatomic potentials

Melting temperature is a critical property for high-temperature materials design, but first-principles melting calculations based on finite-temperature molecular dynamics can require substantial computational resources. The SLUSCHI method reduces this cost by using small-cell sol...

Exploring Emotional Solidarity Through Gap-Generational Travel: Social Interactions Between Chinese Grandparents and Their Grandchildren

This study explores the social interactions between Chinese grandparents and their grandchildren during travel through the theoretical lens of emotional solidarity. Gap-generational travel is a growing trend in the tourism and leisure industry and has gained increasing attention...

Characterizing meso-level organizations engaged in climate change adaptation work in Africa: A configurational analysis

Climate change adaptation in sub-Saharan Africa depends on the effectiveness of meso-level organizations (MLOs) in negotiating the needs of rural community beneficiaries and the aims of macro-level policy and finance actors. In this region, however, the traditional sector-based t...

Uniform automated analysis of Sdiff splitting due to lowermost mantle anisotropy: Caveats and curated global dataset

Summary Seismic anisotropy, the dependence of seismic wave speeds on the direction of propagation and/or polarization, places crucial constraints on deformation and convective flow in the lowermost mantle (the D″ layer). Shear waves that diffract along the core-mantle boundary (C...

Inkjet Printing of MXene Gas Sensors for Agricultural Monitoring

Abstract Inkjet printing enables scalable fabrication of nanomaterial-based devices, but stable droplet formation and reproducible deposition remain challenging for emerging nanosheet inks. In this work, we develop a model-guided inkjet printing framework that monitors and optimi...

Sequence-level recursion in nonhuman vocal communication A comparative test of five recursion types across 43 species

A recurring question in comparative bioacoustics is whether nonhuman vocal sequences show recursive structure of the kind central to human language (Yip 2006). We tested five recursion types drawn from the phonological literature on recursive prosodic structure — center-embedding...