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Phys.org / Wildfire smoke app highlights risks for populations living near urban-rural borders
Earlier in 2025, wildfires in southern California killed 30 people, destroyed more than 18,000 homes and burned more than 57,000 acres. The fires were stark reminders of the threat of worsening climate change, and the increased ...
Phys.org / Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection experiments could function as highly precise gravitational wave detectors, thereby establishing an entirely ...
Phys.org / How night lizards survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs
Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) ...
Phys.org / Saturday Citations: Upside-down sharks; brain network functioning in psychopaths; IQ associated with better predictions
This week, biologists discovered a new cellular organelle that's like "a new recycling center within the cell." Wild-growing tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving. And geologists at the University of Southampton detected ...
Phys.org / Reviving Europe's historical scents—including 'the smell of hell'
Researchers are merging multidisciplinary expertise with AI tools to document, reconstruct and preserve Europe's historical scents.
Phys.org / Team tackles support structure bottlenecks with dual-wavelength 3D printing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a novel 3D printing technique that uses light to build complex structures, then cleanly dissolves the support material, expanding possibilities in multi-material ...
Phys.org / First hominin fossils recovered from submerged Sundaland
The Sunda Shelf is home to a rich Pleistocene hominin fossil record, including specimens of Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, Homo erectus, and archaic Homo. Much of the Sunda Shelf is submerged. At times during the Pleistocene, ...
Phys.org / Fossil fungi trapped in amber reveal ancient origin of parasitic zombie-ants
Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi and insects, suggesting that ...
Phys.org / Scientists map key enzymes behind locust swarming pheromone production
A team of zoologists, molecular engineers and pest control specialists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with a small team of colleagues from Peking University, has identified some of the enzymes and precursor compounds ...
Phys.org / Do you have a nosy coworker? Research finds snooping colleagues send our stress levels rising
They're a common office menace: the nosy coworker. They read over shoulders, loiter as friends chitchat, ask uncomfortable personal questions. It can be tempting to duck for cover whenever you see them heading your way.
Phys.org / Intestinal bacterium allows microbiome-mediated protection against pathogens
The totality of bacteria, viruses and fungi that exist in and on a multicellular organism forms its natural microbiome. The interactions between the body and these microorganisms significantly influence both, the functions ...
Phys.org / Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?
Asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth impact has now been ruled out, the asteroid's story continues.
