https://phys.org/science-news/sci-other en-us The latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. This week in our wrap up, we lull you into a false sense of security with adorable lion cubs then ambush you with terrifying pulsars. We do this not out of a sense of malice but to prepare your mind for the possibility of a giant cosmic void. Also, Japan has launched a new fusion research facility. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-saturday-citations-adorable-kittens-violent.html Other Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:00:02 EST news620652209 This week, we reported on new developments in lithium-ion batteries, and a real industrial pollution hat trick with stories on coal, lead and microplastics. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-microplastics-coal-filthy.html Other Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:30:01 EST news620055434 Newly published research reexamines the evaluation of scientific findings, proposing a network-based methodology for contextualizing a publication's impact. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-effective-method-impact-scientific.html Mathematics Other Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:51:20 EST news619721473 This week's news roundup includes a Bronze Age discovery that calls into question existing ideas of gender representation from the period. More research confirms that bonobos are actually nice. Plus: Actual good climate news? https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-bronze-age-gender-representation.html Other Sat, 18 Nov 2023 09:10:02 EST news619443781 On a summer's day in July 1943, a U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber left Tunisia in North Africa on a mission to attack the Sciacca Aerodrome in Sicily, Italy. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forensic-scientists-world-war-decades.html Archaeology Other Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:40:04 EST news619375201 This week, we covered developments about a record-breaking black hole, the continued plight of polar bears, ChatGPT trying to learn intuition and more. Don't worry if you missed those stories. We've got you covered here. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-big-black-hole.html Other Sat, 11 Nov 2023 07:30:02 EST news618839229 Good morrow and a cheerful week's end to you. This week, we reported on notable developments in the lack of starfish body development. Physicists used a new method to revisit the planetary collision that likely formed the moon and might have found chunks of doomed planet Theia deep in the Earth's mantle. And in experiments, rats, as seen in the subway, are demonstrating the power of imagination, as seen on LeVar Burton's "Reading Rainbow." Worlds collide! https://phys.org/news/2023-11-saturday-citations-moon-rat-whimsy.html Other Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:00:01 EDT news618227224 This week, we reported on LIGO upgrades, parasitic fungi and a new analysis of Curiosity rover data. Also, did you know that viruses also attack bacteria? But at that scale, it's a lot less like catching a cold and a lot more like Harry Dean Stanton encountering the xenomorph in "Alien." https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-mars-limnology-phage.html Other Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:00:01 EDT news617628345 This week, we reported on the totality of the universe. We reported on some other subjects, as well, but since they're obviously encompassed by that first thing, enough said. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-golden-humans-cosmologists.html Other Sat, 21 Oct 2023 07:10:02 EDT news617025768 This week, researchers proved empirically that life isn't fair. Also, you'll notice that, in a superhuman display of restraint, I managed to write a paragraph about the simulated universe hypothesis without once referencing "The Matrix." (Except for this reference.) https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-gravitational-simulated-universe.html Other Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:40:01 EDT news616419448 The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labor market. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-claudia-goldin-nobel-women-labor.html Other Economics & Business Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:48:25 EDT news616056496 They announced the Nobel prizes this week! But did any of the recipients teach an AI to play Street Fighter? Here are a few of this week's stories not yet lauded by international committees of scientists, but which we thought were pretty good: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-hippo-maxillofacial-issues.html Other Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:20:01 EDT news615809750 This week, we're highlighting a study involving toxic chemical contaminants, and just for fun, a second study involving other toxic chemical contaminants. But NASA made a cool time-lapse video using the good old Hubble space telescope, and a group of Italian demographers have a lot to say about the population-level consequences of lying. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-volcano-asteroid-nasa.html Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:30:01 EDT news615207143 This week, we reported on spider silk synthesis without spiders, and how policymakers are pursuing a wish-based approach to a global economy under climate change—what the kids call "manifesting" a green-growth future. Plus, black holes could be hungrier than previously believed. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-middleman-spider-silk.html Other Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:00:01 EDT news614602372 This week, we looked at the swirling chaos around supermassive black holes, anthropogenic climate effects over the Atlantic ocean and the threats to koalas. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-helmet-supermassive-black.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:40:01 EDT news614000141 Reanimating dead spiders to use them as robot claws, licking rocks, backwards talking and a toilet that scans "anal-prints": this year's Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of science. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dead-spider-claws-anal-print-toilets.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:33:57 EDT news614061230 Top science journal Nature was hit with claims last week that its editors—and those of other leading titles—have a bias towards papers highlighting negative climate change effects. It denies the allegation. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-editor-defends-peer-review-climate.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:22:50 EDT news613974162 Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders and explaining why scientists lick rocks, are among the winning achievements in this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for humorous scientific feats, organizers announced Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-repurposing-dead-spiders-cadaver-nose.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:16:37 EDT news613970189 An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this year's Balzan Prize. Their work in the humanities and natural sciences advances the study of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-balzan-prizes-human-evolution-black.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:51:38 EDT news613659092 This first week of September, researchers reported on burned-out sharks, a method for maintaining quantum coherence and some positive market news for old-timey coal barons. Plus: Snail slime is really impressive if you look at it from a molecular standpoint. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-quantum-coherence-coal.html Other Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:30:01 EDT news613391353 This week, researchers reported on two-dimensional gold sheets, a tidy little meson made of four quarks (and its buddy!) and a big and almost unimaginably dense exoplanet with an exciting backstory. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-ancient-corvids-tetraquarks.html Other Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:20:01 EDT news612853844 This week, scientists contemplated teenage hormones, described cat noises, visualized photon entanglement and—oh!—landed on the moon. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-teenagers-bonobos-babies.html Other Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:10:01 EDT news612181852 This week on Phys.org, we published news about ancient anarchists, a hidden phase transition, dark matter developments, hot oceans and pollution taxes. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-ancient-anarchists-filthy.html Other Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:30:01 EDT news611580502 A team of scientists from over a dozen of the nation's top bioengineering programs have created a roadmap for developing and implementing a hiring process aimed at increasing diversity among biomedical engineering faculty. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-national-network-biomedical-six-step-roadmap.html Other Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:20:25 EDT news611310018 This week on phys.org, we published news about muons, gigantic stellar waves, a Homo-erectus-thwarting mini ice age, and a new whale guy. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-muons-standard-refuting.html Other Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:10:01 EDT news611036133 A trio of physiologists at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, in Japan, has found that Formula 1 racecar drivers unintentionally time their blinking with straighter parts of the track. In their study, reported in iScience, Ryota Nishizono, Naoki Saijo and Makio Kashino fitted sensors to the helmets of three professional Formula 1 racecar drivers to monitor blinking. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-racecar-drivers-safest-track.html Other Tue, 23 May 2023 13:38:58 EDT news604067931 Women researchers received substantially less funding in grant awards than men—an average of about $342,000 compared to men's $659,000, according to a large meta-analysis of studies on the topic. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-gender-gap-grant-award-amounts.html Other Economics & Business Wed, 03 May 2023 06:00:02 EDT news602307862 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-death-access-mega-journals.html Other Education Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:04:49 EDT news599328275 It was a good year for research of all kinds as three men shared the Nobel Prize in physics for their work that showed that tiny particles separated from one another at great distances can be entangled. Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the award for their work showing that the counterintuitive field of quantum entanglement is real and also demonstrable. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-year-articles.html Other Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:30:01 EST news589716013 The pandemic prompted workplace changes that proved beneficial to people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM), but there's fear that these accommodations will be rolled back. With International Day of Persons with Disabilities taking place on Dec. 3, a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York is calling for ways to make work in STEMM more accessible. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-science-accessible-people-disabilities.html Other Education Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:40:35 EST news589358427