Wild fig tree rings offer a cheap method for tracking toxic atmospheric mercury, a byproduct of gold mining in the Global South, according to a new study.

But by applying a new separation technique to ring-polystyrenes made by Jacques Roovers, Vlassopoulos and co-workers have been able to control and quantify the amount of linear contaminant, and to ...

Results of the new observations, published Feb. 28 on the arXiv pre-print server, shed more light on the properties and ...