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Phys.org / Using less, living better: Demand-side climate action wins public support

Climate strategies are still judged largely across two dimensions: how much they cost and how many tons of CO2 they save. A new study published in Communications Sustainability argues that this narrow lens overlooks much ...

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / Seal pups and seabird chicks are suffering in extreme weather. How can we protect them?

Extreme weather is becoming the new normal, disrupting human communities across the globe.

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / By saving ecosystems, environmental regulations help prevent biodiversity loss

Long-term conservation policies may help restore freshwater ecosystems and prevent extreme species loss, new research suggests.

Jun 26, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists design 'tunable' biomolecules to probe how sugars behave

Sugars are not just a source of energy—they also play a crucial role in how cells communicate, how proteins interact and how materials behave in medicine and industry. But studying these processes is challenging because sugar ...

Jun 24, 2026
Phys.org / Plasma approach keeps catalysts working for longer in hydrogen production

Scientists from the University of Manchester have shown how a plasma-based approach, using nonthermal plasma—an electrically energized gas often described as the fourth state of matter—can prevent catalyst deactivation in ...

Jun 24, 2026
Medical Xpress / EU hits France's Sanofi with flu vaccine antitrust probe

The European Commission announced Friday that it was opening an antitrust probe into French pharmaceutical group Sanofi on suspicion it breached the bloc's competition rules in promoting a flu vaccine.

Jun 26, 2026
Tech Xplore / Microscopic image changes can bypass AI guardrails, nearly doubling unsafe responses

It may look like a picture of a panda bear to you, but to your business's AI agent, it can act like a skeleton key, bypassing safety safeguards and potentially causing the model to generate harmful, misleading or policy-violating ...

Jun 22, 2026
Phys.org / Next-generation pesticide disrupts bumblebee reproduction

Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends on pollinators like bees—and those bees are regularly decimated by pesticides.

Jun 23, 2026
Phys.org / Do hyenas eat livestock and rhinos? Behavioral biologists investigate a surprisingly charming population

For conservation and the management of human–wildlife conflicts, it is of great interest to know which species are eaten by carnivores. Scientists from the Ngorongoro Hyena Project at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ...

Jun 24, 2026
Tech Xplore / Smarter optimization model could cut bridge and building materials by up to 90%

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of those materials were truly necessary to build houses, buildings and bridges?

Jun 24, 2026
Phys.org / How sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old

New research from the University of St. Andrews shows how sperm whale vocal dialects evolve as they adopt new calls while still remembering the old. An international team of researchers studying vocal dialects in the endangered ...

Jun 23, 2026
Phys.org / Women negotiate as effectively as men—but leave people happier

Men and women achieve similar economic outcomes in negotiations, but female negotiators foster stronger interpersonal relationships, which lead in turn to greater satisfaction with the result and a greater desire to negotiate ...

Jun 22, 2026