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April Red Hot Research sessions to highlight graduate research, racial equity projects

Huge growth in contestants worldwide shows site is successful in nurturing talent, Yang Yang reports.

The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility developed by MIT’s Space Resources Workshop for NASA’s 2022 BIG Idea Challenge. The system could be used to assemble autonomous worm-like parts into larger biomimetic robots that could explore lava tubes, steep slopes, and the moon’s permanently shadowed regions.

The WebNovel Spirity Awards (WSA) 2022, awards for online literature (OL) launched by Chinas overseas-targeted platform WebNovel, was recently held in Hong Kong. More than 90,000 foreign language OL works were eligible for the awards.

By the end of 2022, Chinas online literature (OL) had attracted around 170 million overseas readers, according to a report jointly published Sunday by the Global Times Research Center and China Literature Limited (CLL) - the industrys leading platform. The platform had hosted foreign language versions of 2,900 Chinese web novels by the end of 2022.

According to a study, carbon emissions from wildfires has been increased since 2000 and reach a new high last 2021

"These fires are two decades of rapid warming and extreme drought in northern Canada and Siberia coming to roost," says Steven Davis.

Study found northern-latitude forest fires to be the highest source of carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021, according to an international team of researchers led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.

Relatively long-lived lightning strikes are the most likely to spark wildfires and may become more common as the climate warms.