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Phys.org / Analysis of 1.4 million interactions shows how employees achieve sophisticated AI collaboration

A study of 1.4 million real workplace interactions with artificial intelligence reveals teachable differences between routine and sophisticated AI use that offer organizations a concrete road map for identifying and scaling ...

Mar 22, 2026
Phys.org / Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories

All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday.

Mar 16, 2026
Phys.org / The deep freshwater reservoir hidden beneath the Great Salt Lake

A potentially huge underground reservoir of freshwater beneath the Great Salt Lake is coming into sharper focus with a new study that used airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys to X-ray geologic structures under Farmington ...

Mar 20, 2026
Phys.org / The Yamna reused sacred spaces in the north Pontic Steppe, study suggests

According to an article published in Antiquity by Dr. Svitlana Ivanova and her colleagues, the Yamna culture's repurposing of older ritual spaces reflects a deliberate appropriation and continuation of sacred spaces. A case ...

Mar 19, 2026
Phys.org / Challenging a 300-year-old law of friction

Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that arises without any mechanical contact, driven purely by collective magnetic dynamics. The study, published ...

Mar 18, 2026
Phys.org / New controls can stretch, blur and even reverse quantum time flow

In new research published in Physical Review X, scientists have designed quantum control protocols that generate processes more consistent with time flowing backward than forward. The protocols—techniques to control quantum ...

Mar 20, 2026
Tech Xplore / In a world of AI text, speech still reigns supreme

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

Mar 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Q&A: What to know about colorectal cancer and its recent prevalence among young people

Colorectal cancer, a type of cancer that affects the colon or rectum, is the second leading cause of cancer-related death and the third most common cause of death or type of cancer. It is the No. 1 cause of cancer-related ...

Mar 22, 2026
Phys.org / Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago, long before pottery or farming, archaeologists find

Long before pottery, before agriculture, when the first villages took shape, people in the Levant were already molding clay with their hands, carefully, deliberately, and sometimes playfully. Some of those hands belonged ...

Mar 18, 2026
Medical Xpress / Sepsis is linked to nearly one in five pediatric hospital deaths in the US

Nearly one in five pediatric hospital deaths in the United States involve sepsis, according to a new national study published in JAMA. The study also found that sepsis occurs in about one in every 75 pediatric hospitalizations ...

Mar 22, 2026
Phys.org / New model links carbon-13 spike to Great Oxidation Event 2.45 billion years ago

Two University of Victoria (UVic) geologists have integrated field geology with statistical modeling to give scientists a new view of the chemical reactions happening on ocean floors billions of years ago. The revised picture ...

Mar 20, 2026
Phys.org / Astronomers discover long-period radio transient of unknown origin

Using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered a new long-period radio transient source, which received the designation ASKAP J142431.2–612611 (ASKAP J1424 for short). The newfound transient has ...

Mar 17, 2026