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Tech Xplore / Preventing faults in electronics induced by radiation

Telephone and television reception, GPS navigation systems, broadband internet via satellite—none of this would be possible without electronics in space. However, cosmic radiation in particular can damage components, lead ...

Phys.org / Ancient dirty dishes reveal decades of questionable findings

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for archaeologists, its ubiquitous presence in excavated pottery offers a window into the economic, ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / 'HIV-free generations': Prevention drug rollout brings hope to South Africa

Kegoratile Aphane did not flinch when the needle pierced the skin of her right buttock, injecting a yellow-colored drug touted as a revolution that could end the HIV pandemic.

21 hours ago in HIV & AIDS
Phys.org / The case for an antimatter Manhattan project

Chemical rockets have taken us to the moon and back, but traveling to the stars demands something more powerful. Space X's Starship can lift extraordinary masses to orbit and send payloads throughout the solar system using ...

Dec 1, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Spanish pork producers 'very concerned' by African swine fever

Spain's pork industry is "very concerned" by a growing African swine fever outbreak among wild boars that has sparked jitters about the world's third-largest producer of the meat and its derivatives.

23 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Spain detects seven new African swine fever cases

Spain has found another seven dead wild boars infected with African swine fever near Barcelona, increasing the outbreak's total to nine cases, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.

23 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disasters

A fault line in Canada's Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometers from northeast British Columbia into the Yukon ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Probing the quantum nature of black holes through entropy

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at extremely low temperatures, ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Astronomers confirm low-luminosity active galactic nucleus in nearby galaxy NGC 3221

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from Stanford University and elsewhere have conducted deep X-ray observations of a nearby galaxy known as NGC 3221. The new observational campaign detected a faint active galactic ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / New palladium-gold alloy catalyst boosts methane-to-ethylene conversion with solar power

Researchers just hit two benefits with one catalyst. They converted methane (CH4), a potent greenhouse gas, into ethylene (C2H4), a highly demanded raw material in industrial sectors, using sunlight and a newly designed palladium–gold ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Chesapeake Bay's storm surge tides can be 47% higher than the open ocean

When hurricanes or strong storms sweep up the United States' East Coast and meet the shores of the country's largest estuary, Chesapeake Bay, the familiar pattern of storm activity gets a little more complicated. A new study, ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Early childhood patterns of picky eating can ripple through development for some

At the University of Oslo, psychologists and collaborators following Norwegian families identified a sizable group of children whose eating patterns centered on avoidant and restrictive intake and whose difficulties stretched ...

Dec 2, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry