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Medical Xpress / Why so many young people in China are hugging trees

In Beijing's central district, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roadsides and in courtyards inside people's houses. Many have only been planted in recent decades.

7 hours ago in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Reducing household waste poses serious challenges in residential high-rises

Like much of the Western world, Canada is facing a crisis in waste disposal as landfills reach their capacity. In Ontario, a live countdown gives municipal landfills just eight more years before they are full. We urgently ...

8 hours ago in Earth
Phys.org / Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

11 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Just 5 minutes of training makes fake AI faces easier to spot

Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial intelligence, research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science shows.

12 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Research uncovers the telltale tail of black hole collisions

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But after the waves, there comes a second reverberation—a murmur that physicists have theorized but never ...

12 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematics

Artificial intelligence is everywhere. In fact, each reader of this article could have multiple AI apps operating on the very device displaying this piece.

6 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / More than 16,000 dinosaur tracks discovered at a site in Bolivia

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made about 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods—bipedal ...

17 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / New image sensor breaks optical limits

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to unlocking microscopic details inside living cells. Yet despite decades of innovation, a fundamental ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Resurrected tissue: Mechanism that enables regeneration after extensive damage solves a 50-year-old mystery

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, our skin tissue—and in fact many types of epithelial tissue that lines and covers the body's organs—can respond to death and destruction with a burst of regeneration. This phenomenon, ...

Dec 24, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / The universe may be lopsided, new research suggests

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction.

Dec 23, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Scientists crack ancient salt crystals to unlock secrets of 1.4 billion-year-old air

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like modern-day Death Valley evaporated under the sun's gentle heat, leaving behind crystals of halite—rock ...

Dec 23, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / CO2 soon to be buried under North Sea oil platform

In the North Sea where Denmark once drilled for oil, imported European carbon dioxide will soon be buried under the seabed in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project nearing completion.

Dec 22, 2025 in Earth