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Phys.org / Personality traits and zip code may determine political preferences
Personality and zip code can help explain differences in political ideology, according to a new study from Northwestern University, which is the first to show the relationship between a person's personality traits and political ...
Phys.org / Little bettongs' dramatic nut-cracker performance
Native Australian animals range from high-hopping kangaroos to fast-running emus—but clever little bettongs also have a special ability to find and eat the food they love.
Phys.org / Chinese telescope captures 155 high-frequency bursts from fast radio burst 20240114A
Using the Tianma Radio Telescope (TMRT), researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted 66 simultaneous dual‑frequency (2.25 GHz/8.60 GHz) observations of the ...
Phys.org / Thousands of US hazardous sites are at risk of flooding because of sea level rise, study finds
If heat-trapping pollution from burning coal, oil and gas continues unchecked, thousands of hazardous sites across the United States risk being flooded from sea level rise by the turn of the century, posing serious health ...
Phys.org / Physicists demonstrate the constancy of the speed of light with unprecedented accuracy
In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth's ...
Phys.org / New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its electric field mattered.
Phys.org / 'Chocolate-flavored' honey created using cocoa bean shells
A group of researchers from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, developed a product made from native bee honey and cocoa bean shells that can be consumed directly or used as an ingredient ...
Phys.org / Discovery of rare protist reveals previously unknown branch of eukaryotic tree of life
A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on early eukaryotic evolution.
Phys.org / Decapitated fossil fish with guts still intact reveal ancient predatory habits
In a study appearing in Fossil Record, researchers Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert analyzed the remains of a unique fossil type: the decapitated head of Aspidorhynchus, with its gastrointestinal tract (guts) still attached. ...
Phys.org / Scientist captures tiny particles for clues on what sparks lightning
Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) it is a reality. By trapping and charging micron-sized particles ...
Phys.org / Study maps the time and energy patterns of electron pairs in ultrafast pulses
The ability to precisely study and manipulate electrons in electron microscopes could open new possibilities for the development of both ultrafast imaging techniques and quantum technologies.
Phys.org / Y1 is an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy, ALMA observations reveal
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has inspected a distant galaxy designated MACS0416_Y1. Results of the observations, presented Nov. 11 on the arXiv pre-print ...
