ULA scrubs attempt at 2nd launch of year helping Amazon catch up to SpaceX

June 17, 2025

2025-06-17 08:14:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain United Launch Alliance scrubbed an attempt for what would have been its second...

Canada wildfire near Vancouver contained

June 17, 2025

2025-06-16 14:30:00 phys.org A helicopter battles wildfires in Squamish, British Columbia. A Canadian wildfire that threatened a community near Vancouver...

Meteosat-12 begins prime service duty

2025-06-16 14:50:00 phys.org by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Meteosat-12 is part of the Meteosat Third...

Grassland ecosystems show abrupt changes when nitrogen fertilization exceeds key threshold

2025-06-16 15:18:00 phys.org Grassland area of Pleine-Fougères (France), research workshop on the role of agricultural activities in the management of...

US moves to protect all species of pangolin, world’s most trafficked mammal

2025-06-16 14:22:00 phys.org This photograph taken on September 14, 2020 shows head keeper Tran Van Truong holding a pangolin inside...

Axiom Space back on track for possible Space Coast launch

2025-06-16 09:40:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A leak in space and a leak on Earth have both been taken...

Scientists track egret’s 38-hour flight from Australia to PNG

2025-06-16 04:30:00 phys.org Australian researchers used GPS to follow eight plumed egrets and 10 great egrets over a period of...

Playing to learn? It works, but it has its limits

June 12, 2025

2025-06-12 16:58:00 phys.org Gamification in a math class. Credit: Margarita Ortiz/ESPOL A new ESPOL study reveals that turning learning into...

Study suggests ways to tackle homophobic bullying in schools

June 12, 2025

2025-06-12 17:01:00 phys.org Credit: Mikhail Nilov from Pexels Showing students audiovisual narratives that simulate homophobic bullying scenarios in schools can...

Tuning a NASA instrument: Calibrating MASTER

June 12, 2025

2025-06-12 11:25:00 phys.org Electrical engineer Nikolas Gibson performs calibration tests on the MODIS/ASTER Airborne Simulator (MASTER) spectrometer, co-developed by NASA’s...

Mapping Ireland’s peatlands to help cut carbon emissions

June 11, 2025

2025-06-11 05:20:00 phys.org Peatlands, such as this area in southern Dorset in England, contain comparable amounts of carbon to rainforests....

Open dumping in Ghana contributes to flood risk and urban vulnerability

2025-06-10 15:46:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management has found...

Dark energy camera captures sparse pockets of light among dark clouds of Chamaeleon I

2025-06-10 16:52:00 phys.org The Ominous Chamaeleon I dark cloud. Credit: CTIO / NOIRLab / DOE / NSF / AURA; Image...

Nations call for strong plastics treaty as difficult talks loom

2025-06-10 14:11:00 phys.org Countries have been negotiating a global treaty to address a torrent of plastic entering the environment, including...

Decorative terracotta pieces challenge existing ideas on Carpetania’s role in Mediterranean globalization

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...

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