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Phys.org / Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change, researchers warn

The world's forests form a vast network of carbon reservoirs, keeping carbon sequestered from the atmosphere where its presence is disrupting Earth's climate systems. Many corporate, national and state climate policies rely ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / Forbidden friends become former friends after moms voice disapproval

It's a tale as old as time: parents don't like the company their children keep—and don't hesitate to say so. Often, parents openly state their disapproval, hoping that children will abandon unwelcome affiliates and seek out ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / Rising seawater heat may collapse coral oxygen flow before bleaching appears

Tropical coral reefs support the highest levels of biodiversity in the ocean. This vital ecosystem depends on reef-building corals, which form colonies of thousands of tiny coral animals that secrete calcium carbonate skeletons, ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / Ultrafast switching device unlocks low-power optical-to-electrical conversion for AI hardware

Modern energy demands are soaring as technologies like AI and IoT become more common, and researchers have been working hard to develop hardware that can keep up. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Tokyo has ...

May 18, 2026
Tech Xplore / Watching the detectors: Researchers probe efficacy—and danger—of AI detection tools

Patrick Traynor, Ph.D., has questions. When the professor and interim chair of the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering saw reports in the media positing that scientific literature ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / The fungus that spoils nearly everything: Gray mold secret revealed

Even if you haven't heard of Botrytis cinerea, you've likely seen it—slowly growing in your store-bought blueberries, tomatoes or even on your beautiful orchids. Commonly known as gray mold, the fungus attacks hundreds of ...

May 20, 2026
Phys.org / Sri Lanka teeth reveal rising plant diets thousands of years before agriculture

A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining human populations in Sri Lankan tropical rainforests shows that people's consumption of plants began increasing thousands of years before the introduction of ...

May 20, 2026
Medical Xpress / How children with autism hear: Not better or worse, just differently

Université de Montréal psychiatry professor Laurent Mottron has spent his career studying the cognitive processes of people with autism. Rather than viewing autism as a deficit, he sees it as a different way of processing ...

May 20, 2026
Science X / How swarms of tiny light-controlled robots could revolutionize wound care

Having a swarm of microbots moving across your body may sound like the stuff of a horror movie, but it could actually be the future of targeted drug delivery and advanced wound healing. Scientists have developed a way to ...

May 18, 2026
Phys.org / SpaceX, the sprawling company targeting the stars, Mars and an IPO

Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 with the lofty goal of ferrying humans to Mars and colonizing Earth's neighboring planet.

May 21, 2026
Phys.org / SpaceX reveals plans for what could be the biggest-ever initial public offering

Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year.

May 21, 2026
Phys.org / AI-generated fake citations are flooding scientific literature across publications, scientists warn

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular field, a pool of peer-reviewed sources built over years of research and study. However, with the increasing ...

May 18, 2026