Tag: Physics

2025-01-13 16:28:00 phys.org Artist concept of planet formation occurring in harsh stellar environments. Credit: AUI/NSF NRAO/S.Dagnello According to the most ...

Expanding the light spectrum at the smallest scale

2025-01-13 17:04:00 phys.org by Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS Coherent Broadband Supercontinuum (CBS) ...

Odds point to a shift in the gender appeal of sports betting

2025-01-13 17:08:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Sports betting has historically been considered an overwhelmingly male pursuit—but those odds could ...

New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered

Kim Heatley 2025-01-12 12:40:00 physics.mit.edu The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric ...

Many ‘impact investors’ aren’t fully tracking whether their investments are good for society or the environment

2025-01-13 14:00:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Investors can aim not only to make money but to benefit society while ...

Innovative film combines cooling efficiency with vibrant structural colors

2025-01-13 11:27:00 phys.org Credit: Matter (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2024.10.016 In a study published in Matter, Song Yanlin's lab from the Institute ...

Gaia22ayj is a magnetic accreting white dwarf, astronomers find

2025-01-13 09:30:00 phys.org Gaia coverage from 2014–2024 shows consistent high amplitude modulation, while both ZTF (2018–onwards) and Gaia show a ...

Study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct

January 12, 2025

2025-01-12 11:30:00 phys.org The varied diets of different kangaroo species. Credit: Traci Klarenbeek/Flinders University The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials ...

Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts, spews hot lava and smoke

2025-01-11 15:30:00 phys.org Mount Ibu is one of Indonesia's most active volcanoes, erupting more than 2,000 times last year. A ...

Exploring Earth’s ionosphere for dark matter conversion signals

2025-01-11 09:50:00 phys.org Figure showing that the dark matter waves (in red) drive the ionosphere's plasma to produce photons (in ...

Employers seek ethical, adaptable graduates in 2025 job market

2025-01-11 06:15:00 phys.org Cover image for College Hiring Outlook Report. Credit: Drexel University's LeBow College of Business Ethical judgment, adaptability ...

Linguistic report discusses how cultural differences can affect the dynamics of informal communications

2025-01-10 11:18:00 phys.org Culture may or may not be a relevant factor in intercultural communications for people globally. In this ...

An eye-opening year of extreme weather and climate

2025-01-11 03:00:00 phys.org Extreme climate and weather events in 2024. Credit: Wenxia Zhang From the persistent droughts of southern Africa ...

Prime focus spectrograph on the Subaru Telescope to begin science operations in February

2025-01-10 11:24:00 phys.org Example of data obtained by PFS observing celestial objects in the Andromeda Galaxy region. On the left, ...

Low-cost spectrometers prove effective for plant health monitoring

2025-01-10 12:40:00 phys.org Tower-based SIF automated observation system. (A) Schematic diagram of the field installation of the vegetation canopy AS-SpecFOM ...

New device harnesses microwave flow reaction to convert biomass into useful sugars

2025-01-10 12:46:00 phys.org A simple diagram of the chemical process in the device developed by the research team. In their ...

Plant hormones that help roots reach deeper water provide potential strategy for drought-resistant crops

2025-01-10 13:14:00 phys.org Watered (left) vs. water stressed (right) image – showing change in root angle to make the architecture ...

A new transformer-based model for identifying alloy properties

2025-01-10 13:32:00 phys.org This research presents AlloyBERT, a transformer encoder model tailored for predicting properties like elastic modulus and yield ...

Climate fee on food could effectively cut greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture while ensuring a social balance

2025-01-10 11:43:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Greenhouse gas emissions in German agriculture could be significantly reduced in a socially ...

Astronomers discovered 44 ancient stars using gravitational lensing—an astrophysicist explains how they did it

2025-01-09 15:54:00 phys.org The new stars are located in a galaxy known as the Dragon Arc, which was obscured and ...

Farmers use remote sensing, big data, AI to simulate real-world crop production scenarios

2025-01-10 09:40:00 phys.org Crop farmers spearheaded by Texas A&M AgriLife Research, are using remote sensing, big data and artificial intelligence ...

Energetic particles could help to control plasma flares at the edge of a tokamak