Tag: Physics

2024-12-19 11:36:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Valencia, a city and province in south-east Spain, became synonymous with disaster in ...

In-plane magnetic fields reveal new Hall effect behaviors in advanced materials

2024-12-19 08:38:00 phys.org Large iAHE is observed in EuCd2Sb2 films, providing new insights for manipulating Hall efffects in magnetic materials. ...

To environmentalists, it’s ‘a giant loophole’

2024-12-19 06:51:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Local environmentalists are criticizing San Diego for retreating on a two-year-old policy that ...

Researchers explore, sample and interpret lunar volatiles in polar cold traps

2024-12-18 16:15:00 phys.org Polar stereographic map of the south polar region. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). ...

New York man finds mastodon jaw while gardening in his backyard

2024-12-18 16:18:00 phys.org New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange staff unearthed a complete well-preserved mastodon ...

UN experts urge three ‘transformations’ for nature

2024-12-18 16:19:00 phys.org The report highlighted the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy in Kenya. Human societies need a radical overhaul to stop ...

New method maps hundreds of proteins in cell nuclei simultaneously

2024-12-18 16:27:00 phys.org ChIP-DIP is a highly multiplexed method for mapping proteins to genomic DNA. Credit: Nature Genetics (2024). DOI: ...

Violent volcanism may mean the moon is much older than previously thought

2024-12-18 16:41:00 phys.org A few hundred million years after its formation, the Moon was subject to intense volcanic activity. The ...

Rocket-inspired reaction yields carbon with record surface area

2024-12-18 15:04:00 phys.org Microscopy of a hypergolic, nanoporous carbon engineered at Cornell to have the highest surface area ever reported. ...

Russian oil spill contaminates 50km of Black Sea beaches

2024-12-18 10:17:00 phys.org Some 50km of beaches in Crimea are affected by the spill. Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to ...

SpaceX completes 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 22 hours

2024-12-18 08:19:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a span of less than 22 hours, SpaceX managed three Falcon 9 ...

Chinese detector to hunt elusive neutrinos deep underground

2024-12-18 04:11:00 phys.org The $300 million detector is seen at the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory located 2297 feet (700 meters) ...

Japanese startup’s space rocket launch fails

2024-12-18 03:56:00 phys.org Companies like Space One want to offer cheaper and more frequent space exploration opportunities than governments. A ...

Brain cells mature faster in space but stay healthy: ISS study

2024-12-17 16:47:00 phys.org Credit: Stem Cells Translational Medicine (2024). DOI: 10.1093/stcltm/szae070 Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the ...

Study claims all observables in nature can be measured with a single constant: The second

2024-12-17 16:48:00 phys.org The figure illustrates three events in Minkowski spacetime. Event 𝐵 is neither in the past nor in ...

Low glycemic index rice seen as promising solution to mitigate Asia’s diabetes crisis

2024-12-17 16:50:00 phys.org Credit: Trends in Plant Science (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2024.11.003 A new paper recently published by scientists explores the ...

‘An overlooked method of enslaving people’

2024-12-17 16:52:00 phys.org Timo McGregor. Credit: Elif Kırankaya When discussing enslavement, attention often focuses on Africans forcibly shipped to South ...

SpaceX aims for 3 rocket launches, 1 Dragon landing in 20 hours

2024-12-17 16:44:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a span of about 20 hours, SpaceX could manage three rocket launches ...

XAI benefits to hydrological modeling obscured by hype

2024-12-17 14:14:00 phys.org Credit: Holger Maier Hydrologic modelers are increasingly using explainable AI (XAI) to provide additional insight into complex ...

Sylvia Biscoveanu PhD ’23 named to 2024 Forbes 30 Under 30 » MIT Physics

Kim Heatley 2024-12-12 09:28:00 physics.mit.edu Among 30 honored from MIT this year Thirty members of the MIT community have made ...

Physics graduate student Andrew Denniston and colleagues honored in Physics World’s Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year for 2024 » MIT Physics

Kim Heatley 2024-12-12 23:01:00 physics.mit.edu Physics World has selected two research advances by MIT physicists for its Top 10 Breakthroughs of ...

Across southeastern US, weedy rice steals herbicide resistance from crop rice

2024-12-16 15:30:00 phys.org Weedy rice competes with cultivated rice for resources throughout the growing season, robbing the crop of nutrients ...

Electric vehicle transition could create unwanted air pollution hotspots in China and India