Nations call for strong plastics treaty as difficult talks loom

2025-06-10 11:50:00 phys.org Decorated terracotta relief with a 'Mediterraneanizing' style. Credit: Antiquity (2025). DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.48 Historians have long viewed Carpetania,...

How cultural transmission changed across 3.3 million years of human evolution

2025-06-10 09:32:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and the...

Six decades of data show most phytoplankton populations have been shrinking by up to 2% per year

2025-06-10 06:56:00 phys.org Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2%...

Leaders warn race for minerals could turn seabed into ‘wild west’

2025-06-10 05:10:00 phys.org Nations are urged to make the UN Ocean Conference a turning point for sea conservation. World leaders...

Terahertz polarimetry detects microscopic tissue changes linked to cancer and burns

2025-06-09 15:24:00 phys.org Polarimetric measurements of terahertz scattering can detect subtle changes in tissue architecture that result from disease or...

An Alaskan volcano could help scientists understand why ‘stealthy’ volcanoes erupt without warning

2025-06-10 00:00:00 phys.org Volcanic ash billows into the sky during the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Laacher See eruption...

First surface-emitting laser using quantum dots targets optical fiber communications

2025-06-09 15:44:00 phys.org Schematic of a surface-emitting laser and guantum dots. Credit: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)...

Protecting peppers from devastating viral diseases through gene pyramiding

2025-06-09 15:55:00 phys.org These images show how plants with both pepy-1 and Pepy-2 genes can tolerate challenging viral infections much...

How an atomic nucleus can have two different shapes with only slightly different energy levels

2025-06-09 16:54:00 phys.org Using the Summing Nal Detector, a team of experimental and theoretical scientists at FRIB took another step...

Earliest galaxy ever seen offers glimpse of the nascent universe

Kim Heatley 2025-05-20 14:36:00 physics.mit.edu A deep-field image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope containing thousands of distant galaxiesNASA,...

$Using a fermionic neural network to find the ground state of fractional quantum Hall liquids$

Using a fermionic neural network to find the ground state of fractional quantum Hall liquids

Kim Heatley 2025-05-22 11:35:00 physics.mit.edu Image illustrating AI braiding fractional charges ("anyons") in a quantum Hall fluid. Credit: ChatGPT. When...

New facility to accelerate materials solutions for fusion energy » MIT Physics

admin 2025-06-09 10:00:00 physics.mit.edu MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center to establish the Schmidt Laboratory for Materials in Nuclear Technologies....

UN summit to tackle ’emergency’ in world’s oceans

2025-06-09 05:00:00 phys.org Nations are being urged to make the UN Ocean Conference a turning point for sea onservation. A...

Tangled humpback whale sparks rescue mission off Australia

2025-06-09 04:40:00 phys.org Image grab taken from video footage provided by whale rescue group Organisation for the Rescue and Research...

As UN climate talks loom, Brazil’s Amazon forest loses in May an area larger than NYC

June 8, 2025

2025-06-06 12:25:00 phys.org Credit: Jonny Lew from Pexels Brazil's environmental goals suffered a major setback in May as deforestation in...

Musk’s Starlink gets key license to launch satellite internet services in India

June 8, 2025

2025-06-06 12:30:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain India has granted a key license to Elon Musk's Starlink, bringing the satellite...

Chile’s battle to save its favorite catch

2025-06-06 12:40:00 phys.org Chilean fisherman Rodrigo Gallardo used to fill his trawler with hake but these days he reels in...

Polymer waveguides show promise for reliable, high-capacity optical communication

2025-06-06 13:22:00 phys.org Researchers have now developed a new superior hardware platform for artificial intelligence accelerators using photonic integrated circuits...

Retinal prosthesis woven from tellurium nanowires partially restores vision in blind mice

2025-06-06 14:00:00 phys.org A next-generation nanoprosthesis that restores and enhances vision. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adu2987 A team from Fudan...

Reality vs. imagination; rhinos vs. poachers; mathematics vs. the Big Bang

2025-06-07 09:00:00 phys.org Horned white rhino, undisclosed South African reserve. Credit: Tim Kuiper This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly...

Ancient trees find sanctuary on temple grounds across China

June 5, 2025

2025-06-05 12:50:00 phys.org (A) Distribution patterns of tree abundance. (B) Distribution patterns of species richness of old trees in temples....

Fluorescent light reveals invisible smoke at high altitudes

June 4, 2025

2025-06-04 14:37:00 phys.org by Tilo Arnhold, Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e. V. At the beginning of June 2025, smoke from Canadian...

Chinese researchers charged with smuggling fungus into US

June 4, 2025

2025-06-04 04:30:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Two Chinese scientists have been charged with allegedly smuggling a toxic fungus into...

How a common plant pathogen affects urban trees

June 4, 2025

2025-06-04 03:10:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Trees are important to the environmental health of cities through their capacity to...

After 60 years, the search for a missing plane in Lake Superior remains fruitless

June 3, 2025