Sand and dust storms affect about 330 million people in over 150 countries, UN agency says
2025-07-12 06:23:00 phys.org by Edith M. Lederer Rock formations stand in the Sahara desert outside the city center of Djanet, ...
Tag: Physics
The KATRIN experiment sets new constraints on general neutrino interactions
2025-07-11 10:30:00 phys.org General neutrino interactions in beta decay. Credit: Caroline Fengler Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to ...
Narcissism and other dark personality traits linked to AI cheating in art universities
2025-07-11 10:31:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In many countries, there is an academic cheating crisis with students misusing artificial ...
Sled dog genetic history sheds light on human migration patterns into Greenland
2025-07-11 12:43:00 phys.org Relationship of Greenland dogs to global dogs. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adu1990 The histories of sled dogs ...
Wildfire forces evacuation of part of Grand Canyon
2025-07-11 12:44:00 phys.org Some visitors have been evacuated from the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Spreading wildfires forced the evacuation on ...
NASA selects instruments for Artemis lunar terrain vehicle
2025-07-11 09:30:00 phys.org An artist’s concept of NASA’s Lunar Terrain Vehicle. Credit: NASA NASA has selected three instruments to travel ...
Graphene-based artificial tongue achieves near-human-like sense of taste
2025-07-11 06:20:00 phys.org Schemes of the biological and graphene-oxide ionic sensory memristive device (GO- ISMD),-based gustatory systems. In the biological ...
Agricultural liming in the US is a large CO₂ sink, say researchers
2025-07-09 19:00:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adding lime to agricultural soils can remove CO2 from the atmosphere, rather than ...
EU environment ministers test blood for ‘forever chemicals’
2025-07-10 13:57:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain EU environment and climate ministers meeting in Denmark on Thursday tested their blood ...
Rock art hints at the origins of Egyptian kings
2025-07-09 19:00:00 phys.org Rock engraving of a Protodynastic boat from Wadi Abu Subeira. Credit: Dorian Vanhulle, AKAP A rock art ...
Do local voting rights affect migrants’ participation in protests?
2025-07-09 03:10:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In research published in Social Science Quarterly, the study's investigator expected that migrants ...
Thousands told to stay home as Spain forest fire rages
2025-07-08 13:50:00 phys.org Smoke billows from a forest fire near Pauls, in northeastern Spain. Hundreds of Spanish firefighters on Tuesday ...
Purplish creature found in volcanic fjord is new species named after Darth Vader
2025-07-08 09:28:00 phys.org Eviota vader, fresh holotype, CAS 249349, 11.5 mm SL, male, anesthetized and underwater, Tufi, Papua New Guinea ...
Astronomers investigate pulsar PSR J1930+1852 and its pulsar wind nebula
2025-07-08 08:00:00 phys.org X-ray images of G54.1+0.3. Solid (dotted) circles indicate the source (background) spectral extraction regions for the NuSTAR ...
Physicists observe image rotation in plasma
2025-07-08 06:30:00 phys.org Illustration of the rotation of the wave's transverse structure (image rotation) observed in experiments as the plasma ...
Melting glaciers could trigger more explosive eruptions globally
2025-07-07 19:00:00 phys.org A photo from a helicopter looking at the northeast flank of Mocho-Choshuenco volcano covered by ice. Credit: ...
An approach to realize heralded photon storage in a Rydberg superatom
2025-07-07 09:10:00 phys.org Image illustrating entangling two quantum nodes via heralded storage. Credit: An et al. Quantum technologies, systems that ...
Radiocarbon dating reveals Rapa Nui not as isolated as previously thought
2025-07-07 05:00:00 phys.org Marae with ahu (a central stone platform) on Mo’orea, Windward. Credit: Antiquity Archaeologists have analyzed ritual spaces ...
Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers
2025-07-04 14:20:00 phys.org The circuit construction used to prove the paper's main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting ...
Firefighters master one Turkey wildfire as two others rage on
2025-07-04 09:30:00 phys.org After an intense night fighting the blaze in the western area of Cesme, the fire was brought ...
Record cold grips Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
2025-07-04 09:40:00 phys.org The three South American countries have all recorded sharply below-zero temperatures as the polar air originated from ...
New Horizons conducts first successful deep space stellar navigation test
2025-07-04 07:40:00 phys.org Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft ...
New evidence suggests Neanderthals were rendering fat nearly 100,000 years before other early humans
2025-07-04 06:30:00 phys.org From complete bones to tiny fragments. At the Neumark-Nord 2/2B sites, imported bones were initially smashed open ...
Hubble observations give ‘missing’ globular cluster time to shine
2025-07-04 05:25:00 phys.org Credit: NASA A previously unexplored globular cluster glitters with multicolored stars in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope ...
Enhancing the ‘feel-good’ factor of urban vegetation using AI and street view images
2025-07-03 09:25:00 phys.org Overall workflow of multi-temporal urban green space vegetation visualization analysis framework. Credit: 2025 Anqi Hu et al., ...
New protein-based system streamlines enzyme reuse for plastic recycling
2025-07-02 15:12:00 phys.org Credit: CiQUS Enzymatic recycling has gained traction in recent years as a greener alternative to traditional plastic ...