Radioactive elements released into the environment have been an imperative environmental issue and poses health hazards for living organisms. Activated carbon is one of the most common adsorbents involved in radioactive wastewater remediation due to its high specific surface area and high degree of surface reactivity. In this study, three alternative activated carbons, previously produced via thermo-chemical activation using p...

Given the rising socioeconomic issues of fossil fuels, efficient artificial photosynthesis would be an important milestone toward a sustainable world. A key step of photosynthesis is the catalytic photooxidation of water by photosystem II, which has a mean lifetime of 30 min under full sunlight. Since the efficiency of photosystem II is controlled by redox-active tyrosine–histidine pairs that regulate the light-induced flow of...

Population divergence in geographic isolation is due to a combination of factors. Natural and sexual selection may be important in shaping patterns of population differentiation, a pattern referred to as ‘isolation by adaptation’ ( IBA ). IBA can be complementary to the well‐known pattern of ‘isolation by distance’ ( IBD ), in which the divergence of closely related populations (via any evolutionary process) is associated with...