The ‘torpedo bat’ is revolutionizing baseball. Is it cheating?
Kim Heatley 2025-04-04 10:54:00 physics.mit.edu Aaron Leanhardt spent his PhD studying the secrets of outer space. Then he invented something ...
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Researchers eye exit from Trump’s America
2025-04-08 04:34:00 phys.org Many researchers are worried about the future of academic freedom in the United States. In the halls ...
One-third of Americans work in STEMM jobs accounting for 39% of GDP: Report
2025-04-07 15:44:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Science is US, a foundation-supported initiative housed within the American Association for the ...
Gateway lunar space station’s first habitation module arrives in U.S.
2025-04-07 16:13:00 phys.org NASA/Josh Valcarcel From the mountains of Turin to the deserts of Arizona, a core element of Gateway, ...
Scientists release plans for an even bigger atom smasher to address the mysteries of physics
2025-04-05 09:40:00 phys.org Mike Lamont, director for accelerators and technology, center left, and Fabiola Gianotti, center right, director general of ...
Leaky continental plates, talking monkeys and a spectacular Einstein ring
2025-04-05 09:00:00 phys.org This new image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to ...
Certain sunflower strains can be induced to form seeds without pollination
2025-04-04 09:20:00 phys.org Parthenogenic haploid seed germination, in vitro culture, chromosome doubling and the complete doubled haploid process. Credit: Nature ...
The race to save the Amazon’s bushy-bearded monkeys
2025-04-04 04:19:00 phys.org The family of monkeys found by Armando Schlindwein is curtailed to a patch of land the size ...
Clamping down on ‘forever chemicals’
2025-04-04 04:30:00 phys.org PFAS, or 'forever chemicals', seep into groundwater, surface water and soil . Contaminating water and soil, human-made "forever ...
Investment behaviors characterized by masculinity can negatively impact returns, study finds
2025-04-03 15:07:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study posted to the SSRN preprint server by researchers from the ...
Microwave pulses can control ion-molecule reactions at near absolute zero
2025-04-03 07:30:00 phys.org Top: General scheme for the control of ion-molecule reactions using microwave radiation with the example of the ...
Australia sweats through hottest 12 months on record: Official data
2025-04-03 04:34:00 phys.org Australia has just sweltered through its hottest 12 months on record, a period of drenching floods, tropical ...
United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper
2025-04-02 15:56:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be ...
Repurposed smartphone camera sensors create real-time, high-resolution imaging of antiproton annihilations
2025-04-02 16:03:00 phys.org The new AEgIS detector (left) and a selection of the antiproton annihilations it captured (right). Annihilations appear ...
This is what forecasters mean when they talk about a 100-year flood
2025-04-02 16:10:00 phys.org Cars are submerged on a freeway flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey near downtown Houston, Texas, ...
The First Sightings of Hofstadter’s Butterfly Emerged from a Happy Accident
Kim Heatley 2025-03-28 13:50:00 physics.mit.edu Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its ...
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 ...
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 ...