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Tech Xplore / Samsung unveils first 'special edition' triple-folding phone

Samsung launched its first triple-folding phone on Tuesday, a special-edition product with an eyewatering price tag placing it out of the reach of the average consumer.

3 hours ago in Consumer & Gadgets
Phys.org / New discoveries reveal Tell Abraq's role in ancient Persian Gulf trade

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, located on the west coast of the United Arab Emirates. This area contains traces of every cultural phase ...

21 hours ago in Other Sciences
Tech Xplore / India mandates pre-installation of government cyber safety app on all smartphones

India's telecoms ministry has directed smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new devices, according to a government order, raising concerns of data privacy and user consent in one ...

3 hours ago in Security
Phys.org / AI may be scoring your college essay. Welcome to the new era of admissions

Students applying to college know they can't—or at least shouldn't—use AI chatbots to write their essays and personal statements. So it might come as a surprise that some schools are now using artificial intelligence ...

3 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Endangered species convention proposes new rules for growing exotic pet trade

A growing exotic pet trade has conservationists calling for stronger regulations to protect the reptiles, birds and other animals in the wild that are increasingly showing up for sale on internet marketplaces and becoming ...

3 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Bipolar planetary nebula reveals rare open cluster association

By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS Hα Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar planetary nebula designated PHR J1724-3859. Results of the study, published Nov. 19 on the arXiv ...

21 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Single dose RSV vaccine protection found to wane over 18 months

Research led by the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon, found that a single dose of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine reduced RSV infections and RSV-related emergency visits, hospitalizations, ...

22 hours ago in Gerontology & Geriatrics
Phys.org / Spain deploys army after African swine fever outbreak

Spain on Monday deployed more than 100 troops to help contain an outbreak of African swine fever outside Barcelona that has sparked fears for the country's powerful pork export industry.

18 hours ago in Biology
Phys.org / Evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and heavy rainfall comparable ...

15 hours ago in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Why your faucet drips: Water jet breakup traced to angstrom-scale thermal capillary waves

Some phenomena in our daily lives are so commonplace that we don't realize there could be some very interesting physics behind them. Take a dripping faucet: why does the continuous stream of water from a faucet eventually ...

15 hours ago in Physics
Phys.org / Are university policies holding science back? Study shows how patenting boosts pure research

When UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna first began studying how bacteria fight virus infections, she had no idea it would result in one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the century. Her curiosity-driven ...

14 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? Not necessarily, study shows

Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new answers to explain how some brown dwarfs form giant dust storms, contradicting ...

14 hours ago in Astronomy & Space