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On 07/04/2025, a flood started in Spain, lasting until 07/04/2025 (last update). The flood caused 3 deaths and 0 displaced .
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) is a leading school for Sustainable Built Environment. The key objective is to support efforts to spearhead tertiary education, advance research innovations, and provide professional services. For more details, please view https://www.ntu.edu.sg/cee
We are looking for a post-doc research fellow to work on a newly awarded project on spatial concurrence risk analysis of precipitation using a network-based approach. The position is initially for 12 months, with the possibility of extension for up to 6 months or longer, subject to budget availability. The role will focus on conducting research, preparing project reports, assisting with grant proposals, and engaging in collaborative research activities.
Key Responsibilities:
• Conduct research in data analysis, methodology development and applications
• Coordinate the preparation of project reports and deliverables
• Publish findings in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings
• Collaborate with other researchers on
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The world is littered with trillions of micro- and nanoscopic pieces of plastic. These can be smaller than a virus — just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA. Researchers find them almost everywhere they’ve looked, from Antarctic snow to human blood. In a new study, scientists have delineated the molecular process that causes these small pieces to break off in such large quantities.
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A team of researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation has successfully made self-growing microlenses using bacteria and enzymes found in sea sponges. Because the microlenses are created by bacterial cell factories that function at standard temperatures and pressures, they are less expensive to produce — and they are exceptional at focusing light into very bright beams. The microlenses could allow for higher-resolution image sensors that go beyond current capabilities, potentially allowing doctors to more clearly see tiny structures inside cells.
In nature, sea sponges mineralize silica-based glass at a cellular level to create their intricate and strong glass skeletons. The researchers replicated that mechanism in a lab setting. Their research was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
“This research is the first to engineer light-focusing properties into bacteria cells, and I am excited to explore the different possibilities that our work has opened up,” says one of the study’s authors and University of Rochester researcher Anne S. Meyer.
