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Phys.org / Climate action saves lives. So why do climate models ignore well-being?

Climate change is already shaping our well-being. It affects mental health, spreads infectious diseases, disrupts work, damages food supplies and forces families to leave their homes because of conflict, hunger or flooding.

Nov 30, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Recidivism rate for female sex offenders remains low

Women commit far fewer sexual offenses than men, and their risk of reoffending after returning to the community is also much lower.

23 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Probing the quantum nature of black holes through entropy

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at extremely low temperatures, ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Electric vehicle owners face new pay-per-mile tax. What could be the environmental costs?

Modern electric vehicles are transforming the roads with low noise, rapid acceleration and zero exhaust emissions. However, drivers of electric vehicles in the UK will now face a new 3p per mile charge and drivers of hybrid ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Rare high-resolution observations of a flare-prolific solar active region

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class solar flares—an achievement rarely possible from Earth. Using the GREGOR solar telescope in Tenerife, ...

Nov 28, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Radio wave bursts linked to onset of intense auroral storms

A University of Southampton study has revealed an intriguing new clue in the mystery of what triggers periods of very intense, brightly colored activity during displays of both the southern and northern lights.

Nov 28, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Asteroid loaded with amino acids offers new clues about the origin of life on Earth

One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of life—were transported ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time

On Mars, winds constantly stir up whirlwinds of fine dust. It was at the center of two of these dust devils that the SuperCam instrument's microphone, the first ever to operate on Mars, accidentally recorded particularly ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / The collapse of Maya civilization: Drought doesn't explain everything

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with repeated episodes of intense ...

Nov 26, 2025 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Plastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn

Climate change conditions turn plastics into more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants. This is done by speeding up plastic breakdown into microplastics—microscopic fragments of plastic—spreading them considerable ...

Nov 27, 2025 in Earth
Phys.org / Using 1,000 butterfly and moth genomes to investigate evolution and climate change resilience

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes almost all UK butterflies, ...

Nov 30, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Humans and artificial neural networks exhibit some similar patterns during learning

Past psychology and behavioral science studies have identified various ways in which people's acquisition of new knowledge can be disrupted. One of these, known as interference, occurs when humans are learning new information ...

Nov 29, 2025 in Physics