Unlocking the secrets of scenic beauty: a quantitative analysis of object variety and connections in scenic images.

The perception of beauty, though often subjective, is influenced by identifiable structural and spatial patterns that shape how individuals experience their surroundings. This study explores the roles of object variety and connections in scenic images in shaping perceptions of environmental aesthetics, using advanced computer vision techniques and regression analysis. Drawing on data from the Scenic-Or-Not project and leveraging the Segment Anything Model, we analysed landscape photographs to understand how object diversity and spatial arrangement affect aesthetic judgments.

Microplastic pollution in Pearl River networks: Characteristic, potential sources, and migration pathways.

Microplastic (MP) pollution has become a global environmental problem with profound impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Although the topic of MPs has attracted high attention, the sources, transport pathway, and removal of MPs in river networks is still unclear. Here, we conducted a field survey across the Pearl River Basin (PRB) (> 4.

Dietary therapies interlinking with gut microbes toward human health: Past, present, and future.

Overview of personalized dietary therapies. This flow chart exhibits the future prospect for integrating human microbiome and bio-medical research to revolutionize the precise personalized dietary therapies. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), incorporating database may achieve personalized dietary therapies with high precision.

Cd-Free Pure Sulfide Kesterite Cu ZnSnS Solar Cell with Over 800 mV Open-Circuit Voltage Enabled by Phase Evolution Intervention.

The Cd-free Cu ZnSnS (CZTS) solar cell is an ideal candidate for producing low-cost clean energy through green materials owing to its inherent environmental friendliness and earth abundance. Nevertheless, sulfide CZTS has long suffered from severe open-circuit voltage (V ) deficits, limiting the full exploitation of performance potential and further progress. Here, an effective strategy is proposed to alleviate the nonradiative V loss by manipulating the phase evolution during the critical kesterite phase formation stage.