The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist
Kim Heatley 2025-04-01 12:18:00 physics.mit.edu In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking ...
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World’s largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone
2025-04-02 06:41:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Monday was momentous for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing although it still looked ...
Owl journeys surprise researchers in western Montana
2025-04-01 16:48:00 phys.org Saw-whet owl fitted with transmitter, antenna showing. Credit: MPG Ranch Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls ...
Widely used fungicide poses threat to sparrow chicks
2025-04-01 17:00:00 phys.org Graphical abstract. Credit: Environmental Research (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121321 A French team coordinated by a scientist at CNRS ...
NASA’s SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies
2025-04-01 15:09:00 phys.org NASA’s SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of ...
Live-cell labeling sheds light on how our DNA is packed and behaves in cells
2025-04-01 12:57:00 phys.org Euchromatic regions exhibit greater nucleosome motion, whereas heterochromatic regions show more restricted motion. These nucleosome dynamics facilitate ...
Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia’s orange-bellied parrot from extinction
2025-04-01 10:10:00 phys.org Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) male, Melaleuca, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, Australia. Credit: JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA ...
Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit
2025-04-01 08:20:00 phys.org Ultra-thin superconductor sheet. Credit: ChatGPT Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is ...
No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN
2025-03-31 16:20:00 phys.org The FCC is much larger than the current large hadron collider. Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday ...
Europe’s plans for an even bigger particle collider, explained
2025-03-31 14:30:00 phys.org Credit: Ramaz Bluashvili from Pexels Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger ...
Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size
2025-03-31 12:02:00 phys.org Increasing the size of the magnetic field (red horizontal arrows) applied to rod-like viruses during self-assembly produces ...
Rocket carrying European orbital vehicle crashes after launch
2025-03-30 07:32:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, ...
Morocco ‘water highway’ averts crisis in big cities but doubts over sustainability
2025-03-30 07:42:00 phys.org Morocco has built a diversion dam on one of its biggest rivers to redirect its flow as ...
Scientists develop method to speed up quantum measurements using space-time trade-off
2025-03-29 10:00:00 phys.org A quantum circuit showing a fast measurement outcome for two qubits is the same as a slow ...
Thermopower-based technique can detect fractional quantum Hall states
2025-03-28 09:50:00 phys.org Schematics of thermopower measurements. Fig.1: Schematics of thermopower measurements in MATBG. In a thermopower measurement one end ...
Strong earthquake rocks Thai capital of Bangkok, prompting evacuations from swaying buildings
2025-03-28 05:23:00 phys.org People who evacuated from buildings following earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 28, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Chutima ...
Geospatial intelligence methodology makes land use management more accurate and faster
2025-03-27 14:48:00 phys.org The researchers applied the new methodology in Mato Grosso using data from the 2016/2017 strategic harvest. Credit: ...
Liquid-crystal platform overcomes optical losses in photonic circuits
2025-03-27 15:02:00 phys.org A liquid-crystal-based platform acts as an optical processor in free space, allowing for the simultaneous manipulation of ...
By 2100, more than 80% of amphibian species in and around the Pantanal in Paraguay projected to lose suitable habitat
2025-03-27 16:39:00 phys.org The barramundi (Scinax squalirostris) could disappear from the Pantanal by 2100. Credit: Diego Santana A study published ...
NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing
2025-03-27 16:49:00 phys.org Credit: NASA The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical environmental tests inside ...
Root-knot nematodes benefit root flies
2025-03-27 13:13:00 phys.org A Fuchsine-stained root-knot containing a juvenile nematode observed in the fine roots of infected field mustard plants. ...
Study uncovers origin of the large neutron-capture cross section in ⁸⁸Zr using new methodology
2025-03-27 06:30:00 phys.org Credit: Thanos Stamatopoulos. Studies that explore how the denser sections of atoms, known as atomic nuclei, interact ...
Researchers use innovative methods to identify bee species in the Caatinga biome
2025-03-25 15:12:00 phys.org Map of the Caatinga biome. The area is restricted to northeastern Brazil. Credit: Molecular Biology Reports (2025). ...
Rising seas test defenses of South American ports
2025-03-26 05:50:00 phys.org Chile's biggest port, San Antonio, was forced to close for 30 days in 2024 due to storm ...
Hubble captures the Small Magellanic Cloud
2025-03-25 07:38:00 phys.org This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features part of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ...
Dozens of fires rage in southern Chile
2025-03-25 05:37:00 phys.org The regions of Nuble, Biobio, Araucania and Los Rios were affected by the fires. Dozens of fires ...