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Tech Xplore / When solar radiation grounds planes

In late November, airlines around the world were told to urgently ground planes within their Airbus A320 fleets. Investigators had found that intense bursts of solar radiation could corrupt data inside a flight-control computer, ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Automotive
Phys.org / Disaster after disaster: Do we have enough raw materials to 'build back better?'

This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of lives lost in this tragic event, it is also a moment to reflect on what followed. How do communities ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / The way we manage fires needs to shift from 'siloed' to 'connected,' experts argue

It may seem obvious that climate change is making bushfires worse, but the truth is more complicated.

Dec 22, 2025 in Earth
Tech Xplore / As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese

Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market.

Dec 22, 2025 in Business
Medical Xpress / Heart attack deaths spike during the holidays

The holidays can turn deadly as research shows that more people die from heart attacks during the last week of December than at any other time of the year. While being aware of the signs of a heart attack and taking steps ...

Dec 22, 2025 in Health
Phys.org / Real-time social interactions reveal how we balance cooperation and competition

When people reach for the same object, walk through a narrow doorway, forage for food, or work together on a shared task, they continuously negotiate—often without noticing—how much to cooperate or compete. Unlike classical ...

Dec 19, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Are talented youth nurtured the wrong way? Top performers develop differently than assumed, says study

Traditional research into giftedness and expertise assumes that the key factors to develop outstanding achievements are early performance (e.g., in a school subject, sport, or in concerts) and corresponding abilities (e.g., ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Organic materials conduct ions in solids as easily as in liquids thanks to flexible sidechains

Normally, when liquids solidify, their molecules become locked in place, making it much harder for ions to move and leading to a steep decrease in ionic conductivity. Now, scientists have synthesized a new class of materials, ...

Dec 18, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / SPHEREx telescope completes first full-sky infrared map in 102 colors

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

Dec 18, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Deep ocean earthquakes drive Southern Ocean's massive phytoplankton blooms, study finds

Stanford researchers have uncovered evidence that deep underwater earthquakes can spur the growth of massive phytoplankton blooms at the ocean surface.

Dec 18, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Kangaroos fix their posture to save energy at high hopping speeds, study shows

Researchers have taken a leap in understanding how kangaroos can increase their hopping speeds without incurring an associated energetic cost.

Dec 19, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Conventional entanglement can have thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensions

Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, in collaboration with Huzhou University, discovered that the entanglement workhorse of most quantum optics laboratories can have hidden topologies, reporting ...

Dec 17, 2025 in Physics