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Phys.org / Meet the springtails: Little-known fantastic beasts that live everywhere on Earth
In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters underground—live tiny critters that have shaped the health of our planet for hundreds of millions ...
Medical Xpress / New vulnerability identified in aggressive breast cancer
Researchers at University of California San Diego have identified a previously unrecognized treatment target for triple‑negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Their new study reveals ...
Phys.org / Fire risks associated with solar panel installations evaluated
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted a series of large-scale tests to investigate factors that affect flame spread beneath photovoltaic (PV) panel installations on flat, commercial and industrial rooftops. The research ...
Phys.org / Aligning games and sets in determining tennis matches
Under tennis's rules, the winner of a match is the player who wins the greater number of sets. In the majority of cases, that is also the player who wins the most games, too—but not always.
Phys.org / Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows
The small, spongy black beads used as fill material in most artificial turf fields are called crumb rubber, which has long been touted as a major win for recycling. However, conflicting studies have alternately identified ...
Medical Xpress / Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet—and this shift leads to improvements across several key markers related to how the body regulates ...
Tech Xplore / Humanoid robots or human connection? What Elon Musk's Optimus reveals about our AI ambitions
When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream.
Medical Xpress / Treasure trove of data on aging now publicly accessible
One of the most important gerontological data sets has been opened to the research community. The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). ...
Phys.org / Investors are shifting to 'positive' environmental, social and governance screening, research finds
Investors show a stronger preference for positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) screening, especially in times of uncertainty in stock markets, according to a new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University.
Phys.org / Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science
A 30-minute stroll across New York's Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the US president ever found himself inside the museum he could see the Cape York meteorite: a 58-ton ...
Phys.org / Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather
After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the town of Alexandra in central ...
Phys.org / As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter
Donald Trump and his senior officials insist that Greenland must become part of the US. This is for national security purposes, they say, maintaining that Denmark, of which Greenland is a constituent part, is not investing ...