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Phys.org / Costa Rica paid landowners to restore forests and biodiversity—bioacoustics indicate that it worked

Forest restoration can help fight climate change and restore lost biodiversity, but the satellite-based techniques used to measure successful forest restoration have been less-than-helpful for measuring changes in biodiversity. ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / JWST 'weighs' dormant black hole 10 billion light-years away

The most distant, nearly invisible dormant black hole has been detected and "weighed" by an international team of astronomers that includes researchers from UCL. The study, published in Science, identified a dormant black ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Short videos may hinder learning by fragmenting attention and memory, study finds

Recent technological advances and the introduction of new digital media platforms have dramatically changed how people learn and source information about topics that interest them. Some recent studies have found that while ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Understanding Earth's hidden east-west symmetry could improve climate models

Earth is divided into two halves: the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Both reflect equal amounts of sunlight (albedo) even though they have different landmasses and weather patterns, especially cloud distribution. Why ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Photoexcitation flips 2D moiré devices from metals to insulators in ultrafast test

Quantum materials, materials with properties that are governed by the laws of quantum mechanics describing many-body interactions, have proved promising for the development of various advanced technologies. Many of these ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Charred Bronze Age teeth unlock age at death despite cremation

Over 3,000 years ago, the people of Bronze Age Poland burned their dead and placed their ashes in urns, often destroying the intimate records of their lives preserved in their bones. Now, researchers have shown that some ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Rice–fish co-culturing could help curb schistosomiasis while increasing food production

The chronic disease schistosomiasis wreaks havoc on more than 220 million people around the world, with the vast majority of cases being in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite decades of mass drug administration campaigns, schistosomiasis ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Measuring gravitational waves in a humming universe with a coordinate-free approach

Gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime. Their first direct detection in 2015 marked a revolutionary moment in astronomy. Today, we have a thorough understanding of signals that travel far from their sources through ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Deep-sea discovery uncovers new family of copepods near Greenland

An international research team, including Dr. Nancy Mercado Salas from the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), has described a new family of copepods (Copepoda). The discovery was made at a depth ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Novel synthetic biomolecule degrades disease-related proteins

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel synthetic biomolecular condensate that can degrade intracellular disease-causing proteins, providing a framework for new therapeutic approaches for a wide range of diseases, ...

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Record ultraviolet quasar wind reaches 30% light speed near supermassive black hole

A team led by York University researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black hole ever found at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by the disk of matter (quasar) surrounding the black hole.

Jun 4, 2026
Phys.org / Ultrathin nanotubes reach 1 nanometer, opening path to smaller electronics

Researchers in Japan have created some of the world's smallest semiconducting nanotubes, structures 100,000 times thinner than a human hair. By growing molybdenum disulfide inside protective tubes of boron nitride, the researchers, ...

Jun 4, 2026