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Medical Xpress / Will the Scandinavian sleep method really help me sleep?
It begins with two people, one blanket, and two very different ideas of what's a comfortable sleeping temperature. By midnight, one partner is hot and sweaty while the other is freezing.
Phys.org / Lessons from the Caldor Fire's Christmas Valley 'miracle'
In what came to be called the "Christmas Valley miracle," the Lake Tahoe Basin communities of Christmas Valley and Meyers were spared in late August 2021 when the massive Caldor Fire entered the basin, burning more than 222,000 ...
Phys.org / Disciplinary confinement in prison does more harm than good
When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in Quebec's provincial ...
Phys.org / Saturday Citations: Self-repairing quantum computer; AI carbon footprint; active listening forges bonds
In the best possible news for people who like pizza, researchers report that high-fat cheese may protect brain health and reduce dementia risk. Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could explain why some people live 100 years or more. ...
Phys.org / Archimedean screw inspires new way to encode chirality into magnetic materials
In physics and materials science, the term "spin chirality" refers to an asymmetry in the arrangement of spins (i.e., the intrinsic angular momentum of particles) in magnetic materials. This asymmetry can give rise to unique ...
Phys.org / Physicists push superconducting diodes to high temperatures
For the first time, researchers in China have demonstrated a high-temperature superconducting diode effect, which allows a supercurrent to flow in both directions. Published in Nature Physics, the team's result could help ...
Phys.org / Silicon atom processor links 11 qubits with more than 99% fidelity
In order to scale quantum computers, more qubits must be added and interconnected. However, prior attempts to do this have resulted in a loss of connection quality, or fidelity. But, a new study published in Nature details ...
Phys.org / A molecular gatekeeper that controls protein synthesis
Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of proteins that compact ...
Phys.org / Hidden clay intensified 2011 Japan megaquake, study confirms
An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami that devastated coastal ...
Tech Xplore / Robotic arm successfully learns 1,000 manipulation tasks in one day
Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they were not trained on, ...
Phys.org / Ant societies rose by trading individual protection for collective power—the evolution of 'squishability'
Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ubiquitous tradeoff between quantity and quality. Now, a study shows that this dilemma operates in biology ...
Phys.org / Possible 'superkilonova' exploded not once but twice
When the most massive stars reach the ends of their lives, they blow up in spectacular supernova explosions, which seed the universe with heavy elements such as carbon and iron. Another type of explosion—the kilonova—occurs ...
