1. Decreasing aerosols increase the European summer diurnal temperature range 

   Roesch, Carla M.; Fons, Emilie; Ballinger, Andrew P.; et al. (2025)

   npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

   The diurnal temperature range (DTR), the difference between daily maximum and minimum temperature, is important for the impact of extreme temperatures, but despite physical links to aerosol forcing previous studies have struggled to attribute observed DTR changes to aerosols. Using causal inference, we can clearly identify aerosols as a driver of European DTR change since 1940. Following a decrease from the 1940s, since the 1980s the ...

   Journal Article

2. Tracking Active Site Formation during Oxidative Activation of Copper-Exchanged Zeolites for Methane-to-Methanol Conversion 

   Brenig, Andreas; Fischer, Joerg W. A.; Klose, Daniel; et al. (2025)

   ADVANCED SCIENCE

   The evolution of active sites in Cu-zeolites for the CH4-to-CH3OH conversion has been investigated during oxidative treatment in O2. Three samples with different frameworks but comparable Cu loadings and Si/Al ratios have been prepared to assess the influence of topology on material oxidizability and the nature of the generated Cu(II) species. Complementary spectroscopic studies highlight that isomeric Cu(II) centers hosted within different ...

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3. Seeing the Spikes: The Future of Targetable Synthetic Voltage Sensors 

   Fiala, Tomas; Sulzer, David; Sames, Dalibor (2025)

   ACS Chemical Neuroscience

   Measuring the transduction of electrical signals within neurons is a key capability in neuroscience. Fluorescent voltage sensitive dyes (VSDs) were early tools that complemented classical electrophysiology by enabling the optical recording of membrane potential changes from many cells simultaneously. Recent advances in the VSD field have led to bright and highly sensitive sensors that can be targeted to the desired cell populations in ...

   Review Article

4. Unmute biodiversity risks of free trade? The EFTA-Mercosur Agreement (Swiss) case study 

   Willemin, Remi; Krug, Cornelia B.; Roux, Nicolas; et al. (2025)

   Environmental Sciences Europe

   Sustainability and environmental impact assessments of trade and investment agreements need to address biodiversity more effectively. To showcase this, we examined a report, commissioned by Switzerland, on potential environmental impacts and risks of the trade between Switzerland and the Mercosur under the EFTA-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement. Our analysis focuses on chemical pollution, regulatory impact, duty-free precious minerals, ...

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5. DiffI2I: Efficient Diffusion Model for Image-to-Image Translation 

   Xia, Bin; Zhang, Yulun; Wang, Shiyin; et al. (2025)

   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

   The Diffusion Model (DM) has emerged as the SOTA approach for image synthesis. However, the existing DM cannot perform well on some image-to-image translation (I2I) tasks. Different from image synthesis, some I2I tasks, such as super-resolution, require generating results in accordance with GT images. Traditional DMs for image synthesis require extensive iterations and large denoising models to estimate entire images, which gives their ...

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