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Science X / Macaques plan ahead, offering clues to origins of human foresight

When humans are planning their future actions and decisions, they typically imagine situations or issues they could encounter and predict how they would respond in these imagined scenarios. This imaginative process is highly ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Is 'gender gating' the secret to success in online dating?

Digital matching platforms—from professional networking to ride-sharing and accommodation services—add value by bringing supply and demand into balance. But deep-seated asymmetries can prove difficult to expunge, causing ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / The hidden physics complicating interstellar lightsails

If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion technology, and one of the most promising seems to be a solar sail. These ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Harmonic radar tags reveal how mosquitoes move through fields and parkland

It's an insect everybody loves to hate. Pesky mosquitoes will be out in swarms as the weather warms up across the U.S.—and their bites aren't just itchy. They can transmit pathogens that can cause diseases like West Nile ...

Jun 13, 2026
Phys.org / Research reveals how parenting styles influence children's honesty

Parents who come down hard on their children for telling lies or misbehaving may believe they are teaching the child right from wrong. But new research by NUS suggests that overly strict or punitive parenting could be part ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / David Kipping has new take on the existence of advanced life in the universe and the numbers are not encouraging

Between the mid-1970s and early 1980s, two physicists, Michael Hart and Frank Tipler, published a controversial series of papers arguing that extraterrestrial intelligence didn't exist. As they argued, the likelihood that ...

Jun 13, 2026
Phys.org / Solar geoengineering could shield up to 75% of oceans from heat waves

Most people have experienced a heat wave on land. But heat waves can strike in the ocean too. And as the planet continues to warm, marine heat waves are growing longer and deadlier, hurting the seafood supply that billions ...

Jun 12, 2026
Phys.org / Researchers publish first complete connectome of fruit fly brain and 'spinal cord'

In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published a complete wiring diagram of all the connections between neurons in the central nervous system ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Fusion reactors could be monitored for covert plutonium production

In the next few decades, many physicists are hopeful that nuclear fusion could become a realistic source of practically limitless energy. But before this can happen, it will be critical to ensure that reactors cannot be covertly ...

Jun 13, 2026
Phys.org / Canary Island relics offer new clues into how North African cultures adapted to ocean living

Archaeological evidence from the Canary Islands suggests that by the 11th century, people there were harvesting and processing a variety of fish and other marine organisms—indicating that coastal resources may have played ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Damaged boreal peatlands may triple methane emissions, reshaping climate risk

A new study reveals that, for the first time, areas of Canada's boreal peatlands damaged by oil and gas exploration have failed to recover as scientists and companies predicted and instead have led to a tripling of methane ...

Jun 14, 2026
Phys.org / Light-programmed system projects 28-layer 3D images in single shot

Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, introduced a snapshot 3D image projection system that integrates a digital encoder with a ...

Jun 14, 2026