Tag: Physics

2024-12-23 16:50:00 phys.org Researchers test air quality inside a surviving home. Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Six months after ...

Dry weather triggers durian flowering, study reveals

2024-12-23 14:43:00 phys.org Durian plants were found to flower following a 15-day dry spell, approximately 50 days from the end ...

Rewilding Wirruwana, Western Australia’s largest island

2024-12-23 12:35:00 phys.org Location of Wirruwana in relation to Gutharraguda and other prominent areas of Malgana Country. Credit: The Shire ...

Ultrasound-activated nanoparticles deliver drugs to targeted brain regions

2024-12-23 09:53:00 phys.org by Christine Lehmann, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of Controlled Release ...

New study documents evolution of fast-growing, fish-eating herring in Baltic Sea

2024-12-23 05:00:00 phys.org A comparison of the fast-growing fish-eating Baltic herring (Slåttersill in Swedish) and slow-growing plankton-eating spring- and autumn-spawning ...

Digital labels can help grocers waste less food

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2024-12-20 12:39:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 2022, U.S. grocers wasted 5 million tons of food, with 35% of ...

NASA is tracking New Year on Mars

2024-12-20 12:48:00 phys.org Martian spring involves lots of cracking ice, which led to this 66-foot-wide (20-meter-wide) chunk of carbon dioxide ...

Systemic solutions needed to counter spread of science misinformation, says new report

2024-12-20 12:57:00 phys.org The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released report Thursday evaluating prevalence of misinformation about science. ...

Cyanobacteria research unlocks potential for renewable plastics from carbon dioxide

2024-12-20 13:00:00 phys.org Credit: University of Manchester Scientists at The University of Manchester have achieved a significant breakthrough in using ...

NASA cameras to capture interaction between Blue Ghost lander, moon’s surface

2024-12-21 15:10:00 phys.org One of the SCALPSS cameras is visible here mounted to the Blue Ghost lander. Credit: Firefly Say ...

Report analyzes long history of NASA support for commercial space

2024-12-20 13:01:00 phys.org The SpaceX Dragon Freedom spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov approaches the ...

New electron microscopy technique reveals complex spin structures at femtosecond timescales

2024-12-20 13:09:00 phys.org Spin vectors of a meron pair. Unlike the rapidly oscillating electric and magnetic fields of the surface ...

Scientists observe ‘negative time’ in quantum experiments

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2024-12-21 07:23:00 phys.org Experimental physicist Daniela Angulo poses with an apparatus in the physics lab at the University of Toronto. ...

Lab work digs into gullies seen on giant asteroid Vesta by NASA’s Dawn

2024-12-21 05:30:00 phys.org To explore potential explanations for deep channels, or gullies, seen on Vesta, scientists used JPL’s Dirty Under-vacuum ...

New opportunities for metasurfaces in optoelectronics

2024-12-20 13:20:00 phys.org Optoelectronic metadevices. The effective integration of metasurfaces into electronic devices demands a careful codesign approach that addresses ...

Heterogeneous host populations drive evolution of more virulent pathogens, modeling study shows

2024-12-20 13:37:00 phys.org Contrast between idealized homogeneous and realistic heterogeneous metapopulations. Credit: SOKENDAI, AIST, OIST The evolution of pathogens has ...

Structural analysis reveals how human eyelashes promote water drainage

2024-12-20 14:00:00 phys.org Water droplet slides off eyelash. Credit: Prof. Jiang's group Throughout human evolution, body and facial hair have ...

Advanced algorithm reduces errors in land cover classification for landslide analysis

2024-12-20 14:08:00 phys.org Land cover changes in hilltop areas. Credit: Renata Pacheco Quevedo/ INPE Land use and land cover (LULC) ...

Inequality weakens local governance and public satisfaction, study finds

2024-12-20 14:23:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Local governments in developing countries are crucial for providing public services that promote ...

‘Living’ ceramics utilize bacteria for gas sensing and carbon capture

2024-12-20 15:10:00 phys.org Living porous ceramic for carbon capture and gas sensing. Credit: Advanced Materials (2024). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202412555 A team ...

Neutrality has played a pivotal, but under-examined, role in international relations, new research shows

2024-12-20 14:29:00 phys.org Dr. David Dekker is a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Business School, part of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, ...

Mitigating animal-vehicle collisions with field sensors, AI and ecological modeling

2024-12-20 12:17:00 phys.org Example of a map showing the estimated relative abundance of a species along a railway section. The ...

Sea snakes regain advanced color vision, recovering a complex trait once lost to evolutionary time

2024-12-20 09:43:00 phys.org SWS1 site 86 genotype ratios in sea snake populations. Credit: Genome Biology and Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evae150 ...

Active particles reorganize 3D gels into denser porous structures, study shows