← Back to news

P

Phys.org RSS Feed

Indonesia says its giant sea wall will stop flooding. Is this climate adaptation or a costly folly?

Early locust warning systems are key to minimizing natural disasters, returning up to 680 times investment

Human-centered framework cuts child development tests to eight minutes across four skill areas

Tiny fossils found in 1.7-billion‑year‑old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life

Controlled experiments reveal how nuclear fallout particles form

After the flames, wildfires pollute drinking water for years

'The Silence of the Lambs' introduced the world to forensic entomology—but how much has changed since?

'Permanently wet' coating method could transform wastewater treatment by helping bacteria survive better

Ancient tooth proteins suggest Homo erectus may have left a genetic legacy in people today

Honeybees reveal Weber's law in flight when choosing paths

As corporations race for the stars, we need international collaboration on space governance

The first signs of human cremation may date back 100,000 years

Quantum metasurface boosts terahertz detection sensitivity by exploiting in-plane photoelectric effect

Work capacity changes could reveal sick leave risk early in workplace, thesis suggests

Extreme 8.5-minute orbit reveals white dwarf being torn apart by its binary companion

Atlantic seaweed blooms may be predictable, opening path to carbon removal and biofuels

De‑extinction company says it's made an artificial egg—if true, it could help save living species

Saturday citations: Two T. rexes and new exercise guidance that scientists are not calling 'easy'

New AI system uses cameras and thermal sensors to steer ships clear of gray whales in the San Francisco Bay

Hope boosts climate problem-solving, new experiments suggest

Emergence of new cavefish species challenges evolutionary dead-end idea

China set for latest space launch, with Hong Kong astronaut aboard

SpaceX launches its biggest, most beefed-up Starship yet on a test flight

Study shows highlighting others' achievements on LinkedIn sparks the most engagement

The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner's story—but the other side can be found in old English texts

Wildfire risk is now spreading to cool climates like the Scottish Highlands and Irish uplands

Blue and fin whale sightings on the rise in the Southeast Atlantic

Imaging ellipsometry tracks MXene thin-film quality during fabrication without damage

Understanding the mechanisms of collective cell movement

Just outside Jupiter, one region may have forged six meteorite parent bodies

We're 'green chemists'—why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resources

Why we live alone—and what it means for the climate and our sense of community

Making biomolecules glow: New dye solves imaging interference problem

Novel porous gel changes color, shrinks and hardens when it detects target molecules

Nickelate reveals nodeless gap, providing key clue to high-temperature superconductivity

Some technologies use accelerated natural processes to capture carbon, but can they store it durably?

Arctic thaw unleashes mining-like pollution across hundreds Arctic waterways

Physicists figure out how to reduce formation of 'viscous fingers'

Student talent drives simpler method for programming artificial muscles in soft robots

Scientists discover thriving hard-substrate fauna in Oceania's deep sea

'Designer' superconducting diamond: Researchers uncover path to multi-modality quantum chips

South China Sea coral reefs reveal carbon stores rivaling mangroves and seagrasses

SpaceX to retry Starship test launch Friday

Rediscovering science: New knowledge hidden in old data

Second ribosome binding site helps explain how tetracyclines work

Travel hookups go digital, bringing intimacy, risk and emotional exhaustion

Key switch controlling soil fungi symbiosis could solve a longstanding agricultural problem

Bodies in fashion: Diversity is up, but the ideal stays the same

AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades

Ocean acidification is ruining reef fishes' social lives, study finds