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; ...
Tag: Physics
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 ...
New interactive tool highlights where climate action is most needed
2025-05-15 17:17:00 phys.org Credit: HeiGIT gGmbH (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformatics) What does a climate-neutral, livable city look like—and what concrete ...
This flat-bodied South African gecko was a ‘lost’ species. It’s been found again after 34 years
2025-05-15 05:15:00 phys.org Researcher Darren Pietersen holds a Blyde Rondavel Flat Gecko, a type of lizard that previously hadn't been ...
A treasure trove of critical elements
2025-05-13 08:46:00 phys.org Sphalerite is a zinc sulfide ore that can also contain a treasure trolve of critical minerals. Credit: ...
How 5G and the metaverse are changing agriculture
2025-05-13 04:27:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A review of digital technologies in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance ...
Citizen science contributes to imaging Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere
2025-05-12 16:25:00 phys.org Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Jackie Branc (CC BY) JunoCam, the visible light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, ...
Forty new moth species from the Philippines previously unknown to science discovered in collection
2025-05-12 16:37:00 phys.org by Gesine Steiner, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Wings of Lathrotelinae species. Credit: ...
Hubble comes face-to-face with spiral’s arms
2025-05-12 12:16:00 phys.org This Hubble Space Telescope image showcases the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker ...
UK towns harness nature to combat rising flood risk
2025-05-12 05:10:00 phys.org A volunteer constructs a natural flood management feature on the Saffron Brook in Leicester. In a stream ...
Nanoplastics generated from real-world plastic waste readily adsorb heavy metal ions, study reveals
2025-05-10 10:20:00 phys.org Nanoplastics can adsorb environmental contaminants like toxic heavy metals. Credit: 5Gyres, Oregon State University Some 460 million ...
People who use AI at work are perceived by colleagues as lazier and less competent, study finds
2025-05-09 11:30:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain A trio of business analysts at Duke University has found that people who ...
Using byproducts from agricultural and food production to create sustainable feed for livestock
2025-05-09 12:40:00 phys.org Credit: Yan Krukau from Pexels Imagine if agricultural and food byproducts could be transformed into an effective ...
The forest byproduct lignin can play a key role in new sustainable materials
2025-05-09 10:28:00 phys.org Lab sample of a lignin polymer product. Credit: University of Borås Lignin, a by-product of the forest ...
Hubble pinpoints roaming massive black hole
2025-05-08 12:07:00 phys.org This six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole shows the following: 1) ...
A scalable approach to distill quantum features from higher-dimensional entanglement
2025-05-08 06:30:00 phys.org Credit: Fang et al. The operation of quantum technologies relies on the reliable realization and control of ...