Survey shows 72% of Americans prefer avoiding political discussions at holiday gatherings this year

December 10, 2024

2024-12-09 16:55:00 phys.org Time-variant PT-symmetric frequency-scanning system. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52958-3 An international research team has developed a...

Theory-based approach gives access to quarks’ tiny transverse motion within protons

December 10, 2024

2024-12-09 16:56:00 phys.org Graphic showing the transverse motion of a quark (green sphere) inside a proton whose spin is aligned...

Dogs use two-word button combos to communicate, study shows

2024-12-09 17:00:00 phys.org Credit: Edgar Daniel Hernández Cervantes from Pexels A new study from UC San Diego's Comparative Cognition Lab...

Researchers uncover the physical chemistry behind tick adhesion to skin

2024-12-09 17:10:00 phys.org Glycine-rich protein present in tick saliva is intrinsically disordered and shows a high propensity for LLPS. Credit:...

Flexible metafiber device can generate optical skyrmions with designer topological textures and subwavelength features

2024-12-09 17:30:00 phys.org Fig 1: Artistic image of meta-fibers generating optical skyrmions with configurable topological textures. Credit: Yuan Meng, Tiantian...

Study explores why Republicans are more likely to respond to political polarization by spreading misinformation

2024-12-09 15:22:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from University of California-Irvine published a new study that finds Republicans spread...

Bacteria biofilter reduces pig farm methane emissions

2024-12-09 13:25:00 phys.org In the winter of 2022, DTU established a biofilter at a pig farm in Gilleleje. The filter...

Controlling polaritons at room temperature paves the way for high-speed computing

2024-12-09 11:32:00 phys.org Observation of the polariton spin Hall effect in the Rashba–Dresselhaus regime. Credit: Nature Photonics (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-023-01375-x...

NASA’s IXPE details shapes of structures at a newly discovered black hole

2024-12-09 09:05:00 phys.org This illustration shows NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, at lower left, observing the newly discovered...

Cracking the code for materials that can learn

2024-12-09 05:00:00 phys.org Obtaining the gradient of what's known as the loss function is an essential step to establish the...

A new global carbon trading market could be held hostage by speculators

December 8, 2024

2024-12-08 16:50:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay from Pexels Our planet's future hangs in the balance due to the unabated greenhouse gas...

Geneticists have finally solved the mystery of Garfield’s orange coat

2024-12-07 12:40:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978,...

Climate patterns from cave mineral deposits linked to Chinese dynasty collapses

2024-12-07 09:00:00 phys.org Changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, linked to Asian monsoons, alongside estimates of grain harvest and economic...

Precision mass measurements of atomic nuclei reveal proton halo structure

2024-12-06 12:54:00 phys.org A schematic diagram of proton and neutron distributions for mirror nuclei argon-31 and aluminum-31. Left side is the weakly bound...

In at least one leading company, foreign-born talents are paid less

2024-12-06 13:15:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the national debate over legal immigration, the H-1B visa program has acquired...

Unlike other insects, desert ants may use polarity of geomagnetic field for navigation

2024-12-06 13:45:00 phys.org Desert ants can sense the North-South direction of the magnetic field to determine the direction of their...

Experiment verifies a connection between quantum theory and information theory

2024-12-06 14:00:00 phys.org With the help of a new experiment, researchers at Linköping University, among others, have succeeded in confirming...

Computer modeling shows close encounters between distant DNA regions cause bursts of gene activity

2024-12-06 14:00:00 phys.org When the Nanog gene (green region) is inactive, one of the three enhancer regions is spatially far...

Interdisciplinary research reveals impressive adaptation mechanisms of microscopic algae

2024-12-06 14:00:00 phys.org A spatially structured three-dimensional environment (S3-D) causes severe changes in the subcellular structures of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii regarding...

Election results show potential of prediction markets and blockchain, economist says

2024-12-06 16:07:00 phys.org Michael Jones speaks to a visitor in the Cryptoeconomics Lab at UC Digital Futures. Credit: Andrew Higley/UC...

Plankton study investigates how marine food webs respond to increasing alkalinity

2024-12-06 14:35:00 phys.org For their experiment, the scientists used so-called KOSMOS mesocosms (Kiel Off-Shore Mesocosms for Ocean Simulations)—large containers that...

A microRNA solves an evolutionary mystery of butterfly and moth wing coloration

2024-12-06 13:17:00 phys.org A mating pair of wild-type (left) and mir-193 mutant (right) B. anynana butterflies. Credit: Shen Tian Lepidopterans...

Climate change is making Canada’s ice roads hard to navigate

2024-12-06 11:15:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Walking on the ice of the Great Bear Lake in the N.W.T. is...

SpaceX satellite launch from Kennedy Space Center tops off three launches in 30 hours