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Phys.org / The 'pivot penalty': Exploring career risks for researchers who don't stay in their own lane
In 2020, Yian Yin teamed up with economists at Northwestern University to look at the impact of researchers who had shifted their focus to study the COVID pandemic. He saw that these researchers faced a "pivot penalty"—their ...
Phys.org / Global 'precipitation whiplashes' between droughts and floods could intensify by 2028, study warns
A recent study by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) reveals a looming climate crisis: the world could face heightened risks of "precipitation whiplashes"—violent swings between extreme droughts ...
Phys.org / Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2021 and 2024.
Phys.org / What animal bones from northeastern Mongolia reveal about life on the medieval Liao frontier
In the windswept steppe of northeastern Mongolia, archaeologists have unearthed a rare window into daily life along the medieval frontier of the Liao Empire. Excavations at a remote garrison site revealed thousands of animal ...
Phys.org / Orangutans nap to make up for lost sleep, new study reveals
Anybody who has ever struggled to get enough sleep knows just how much in life can interfere with our rest, and just how detrimental this can be to our health and happiness. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Animal ...
Phys.org / Decoding thermal behavior in crystals: Insights from thalidomide
Understanding how molecular arrangements within crystals influence their thermal behavior is a fundamental question in solid-state chemistry. This topic is especially relevant in pharmaceuticals existing as enantiomers, molecules ...
Phys.org / Hidden gems in the mist: Three new frog species uncovered in northern Peru
High in the cloud-wrapped peaks of the Cordillera de Huancabamba, where the Andes dip and twist into isolated ridges, a team of Peruvian scientists has brought three secretive frogs out of obscurity and into the scientific ...
Phys.org / Building breast tissue in the lab to better understand lactation
Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a model in the lab made from human breast milk cells. They hope it will help them understand how breast milk is made—a little-researched area of female biology.
Phys.org / Bats get fat to survive hard times, but climate change is threatening their survival strategy
Bats are often cast as the unseen night-time stewards of nature, flitting through the dark to control pest insects, pollinate plants and disperse seeds. But behind their silent contributions lies a remarkable and underappreciated ...
Phys.org / Yeast cell division 'pacemaker' found inside nucleus, not outside as once believed
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the "pacemaker" controlling yeast cell division lies inside the nucleus rather than outside it, as previously thought. Having the pacemaker in the same compartment ...
Phys.org / Wolf skulls reveal major 20th-century population turnover in Fennoscandia
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland has uncovered striking changes in the skull shape of wolves in Finland, Sweden and Norway, reflecting a major population turnover during the 20th century.
Phys.org / Soil bacterium's diverse genes yield two new natural product families with antifungal effects
A study by an interdisciplinary research team shows how a soil bacterium can become a source of inspiration in the search for new active substances. Genomic analyses of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae shed light on ...
