SpaceX set for next Starship launch after fiery failures
2025-05-27 04:05:00 phys.org The previous two launch tests of SpaceX's Starship ended with the upper stage erupting into fiery cascades ...
Tag: Physics
Invasive species inflict $2.2 trillion in global damages since 1960, study finds
2025-05-26 14:30:00 phys.org Mosquitoes have expanding ranges due to global warming. From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic ...
Friction variation creates Tête de Moine’s signature cheese flowers
2025-05-26 10:00:00 phys.org Tête de Moine cheese flowers are created by scraping the cheese surface with the rotating blade of ...
Strauss’ ‘Blue Danube’ waltz is launching into space to mark his 200th birthday
2025-05-26 04:34:00 phys.org This undated photo released by the European Space Agency shows the 35 meter-diameter deep-space dish antenna, DSA-2, ...
Intuitive geometric method simplifies inverse design of kirigami
2025-05-25 09:00:00 phys.org Image showing how the team applied their method to map the internal trajectories of the rotating units ...
UAE hits record May temperature of 51.6C
2025-05-25 05:58:00 phys.org Dubai residents attempt to cool off at night at the Umm Suqeim beach as temperatures sizzle above ...
Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study
2025-05-24 09:40:00 phys.org The Greenland ice sheet holds enough frozen water to lift global oceans by five meters. Rising seas ...
After two setbacks, SpaceX could try to launch massive Starship next week
2025-05-24 03:40:00 phys.org SpaceX's Starship spacecraft. SpaceX said Friday it will make another launch attempt next week of the massive ...
Plankton adapt cell membrane chemistry to temperature, nutrients, and light in global oceans
2025-05-23 15:36:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Plankton may be tiny, but they play an important role in the ocean. ...
Binary star system with millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion discovered
2025-05-23 13:50:00 phys.org Optical and infrared images around PSR J1928+1815. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.ado0769 A large team of astronomers ...
Wind-related hurricane losses for homeowners in the southeastern US could be nearly 76% higher by 2060
2025-05-21 15:17:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hurricane winds are a major contributor to storm-related losses for people living in ...
Study finds sand lizards feel at home on railway tracks
2025-05-21 15:17:00 phys.org by Gesine Steiner, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Location of the study site ...
Chip-scale soliton microcombs reach femtosecond precision
2025-05-21 15:40:00 phys.org A new platform based on dispersion-managed silicon nitride microresonators operates at an 89 GHz repetition rate. Schematic ...
Extreme weather cycles change underwater light at Tahoe
2025-05-21 16:40:00 phys.org Brant Allen of UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center dives in Lake Tahoe. Credit: Brandon Berry/UC Davis ...
Tattoos of rare shape and composition found on 800-year-old Andean mummy
2025-05-20 15:50:00 phys.org Right cheek of the mummy and magnification (in the boxes) of the three-line tattoos: a) visible light; ...
Expert content juries preferred for social media moderation, survey finds
2025-05-20 12:44:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Americans perceive small juries of content experts as the most legitimate moderators of ...
India steel plans threaten global emissions goals: Report
2025-05-20 05:10:00 phys.org The majority of India's announced steel development plans involve higher-emissions blast furnace production, in a country whose ...
Amazon forest loss leads to measurable drop in regional rainfall
2025-05-19 14:23:00 phys.org Land surface properties. Credit: AGU Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025AV001670 The Amazon Basin lost about 27,000 square kilometers ...
Understanding weather extremes through the lens of a regional model
2025-05-19 16:53:00 phys.org The ACCESS-rAM3 model, a regional atmosphere-land model nesting suite. Credit: ACCESS-NRI Regional models are game changers when ...
How and when to see it
2025-05-19 15:42:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain California stargazers will soon be able to witness a dazzling celestial sight composed ...
First successful demonstration of quantum error correction of qudits for quantum computers
2025-05-18 12:00:00 phys.org Realization of a logical GKP ququart. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08899-y In the world of quantum computing, ...
Indian space agency’s satellite mission fails due to technical issue in launch vehicle
2025-05-18 06:05:00 phys.org This photo released by Indian Space Research Organization shows the EOS-09 Earth observation satellite on board the ...
Protoplanetary cornucopia; trees abound; the importance of diversity in corporate boards
2025-05-17 08:30:00 phys.org ALMA images of the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone. The research team suspects that protoplanetary discs are ...
Low-emission zones linked to improved air quality in Belgian cities
2025-05-16 14:37:00 phys.org Socioeconomic deprivation in the Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent Low Emission Zones, with NO2 overlay for 2022. Credit: ...
70 South African white rhinos to be relocated to Rwanda
2025-05-16 04:40:00 phys.org White rhinos have been the targets of a poaching epidemic that has largely wiped them out. Rwanda's ...
Image: Deimos before dawn
2025-05-15 15:53:00 phys.org Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's Perseverance rover captured this view of Deimos, the smaller of Mars's two moons, shining ...