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Phys.org / 'Spooky' particles transit DC suburbs, a step toward a quantum network

In early 2025, special signals wended their way through a fiber-optic highway strung above the streets and sidewalks of the Maryland suburbs. The arrival of those signals at their destination marks a significant step toward ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Long-term study suggests landfill methane emissions are far higher than estimates

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill suggests that estimates of methane ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / New catalyst design selectively suppresses competing hydrogen reaction in ammonia synthesis

A research team led by professor Yousung Jung from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering has developed a new catalyst design principle that suppresses the ...

Aug 4, 2026
Phys.org / Bringing it all into focus—computational microscope captures 25.2 billion pixels per second across a wide field of view

When designing microscopes, optical engineers have long faced a trade-off between speed, field of view and resolution. But improving one of these properties typically comes at the expense of another. Now, a UC Berkeley–led ...

Aug 3, 2026
Medical Xpress / Grid cells turn the brain's searchlight from broad scanning to target-focused search

For 20 years, the grid cell was the closest thing neuroscience had to a fixed point. May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser found them in the rat brain in 2005, work that nine years later would carry them to the king's table in ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / ChatGPT can generate personality tests and predict people's responses before they take them

In iScience, scientists outline how they developed a method for generating personality assessment questionnaires with ChatGPT from any source text. To test the method, they applied it to both the DSM-5 and, as a deliberately ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Your next handbag could start with mushrooms

The search for leather alternatives has led researchers somewhere unexpected: fungi. Although traditional leather is durable, producing it requires animal agriculture, which carries negative environmental impacts. Meanwhile, ...

Aug 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / Trial focuses on duration of therapeutic hypothermia for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests

Each year, more than 250,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Approximately 90% of patients do not survive.

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Electric field reverses phonon chirality and spin direction in ferroelectric crystal

Chiral phonons are groups of atoms that move in a circular direction when excited by an energy source, such as heat. As the phonons move through a material, they propagate that circular motion, or angular momentum, through ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / First metabolically activated molecular glue degrader may target cancer cells under oxidative stress

Investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a platform for systematically discovering molecular glues that could become protein degradation drug candidates. The platform could help drug developers dramatically ...

Aug 6, 2026
Phys.org / Harvesting rainwater from rooftops could help cities stay cool and cut the number of heat wave days

Collecting rainwater from rooftops and using it to spray buildings during hot weather could help cities cut air conditioning use, lower urban temperatures and lessen the impact of heat waves, according to new research from ...

Aug 5, 2026
Phys.org / Earthquake sensors can help forecast how hurricanes intensify

Stanford researchers have shown that instruments primarily used to understand earthquakes can capture key details about hurricanes, helping meteorologists better predict how storms will evolve and intensify.

Aug 6, 2026