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We tested the Garmin Forerunner 265, an athlete-grade fitness watch with brilliant fitness tracking features....

Where on the Moon will the first crewed Artemis mission Land? While NASA is still deliberating on the exact location, they've chosen several candidate landing sites near the lunar south pole. This new image captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...

To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC's latest climate report...

In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources....

Muscle degeneration, the most prevalent cause of frailty in hereditary diseases and aging, could be caused by a deficiency in one key enzyme in a lipid biosynthesis pathway. Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Ac...

Figuring out a lie has never been easier: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is. This is the core of a new approach to lie detection, say researchers from the University of Amsterdam's...

For the first time, scientists at the University of Sydney and the University of Basel in Switzerland have demonstrated the ability to manipulate and identify small numbers of interacting photons—packets of light energy—with high correlation....

Shigellosis, a highly contagious diarrheal disease, is caused by Shigella bacteria circulating in industrializing countries but also in industrialized countries. Scientists from the French National Reference Center for Escherichia coli, Shigella and Salmo...

The UN's final IPCC report warns that drastic action must be taken immediately, but staving off disaster is within humanity's grasp....

With multiple spaceports planned across the UK, the nation's capacity for launching satellites is set to take off The post UK aims to become a space launch superpower appeared first on Physics World ....

A quartet of seismologists at The Australian National University, in Canberra, Australia, has found that an earthquake that struck near the town of Woods Point, in Victoria, Australia, back in 2021, was due to a blind fault. In their paper published in Se...

In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons...

The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials—whose exceptional properties stem from quantum physics—is the most promising way to meet these c...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough process for making spintronic devices that has the potential to create semiconductors chips with unmatched energy efficiency and storage for use in computers, smartphones, and many other electronics....

Attackers have the ability not only to manipulate software, but also to tamper with the hardware. A team is now devising methods to detect such tampering....

A global mapping project has revealed the major stressors placed upon global coastlines by human activity....

A new technique that combines highly detailed, real-time images of inside the body with a type of infrared light has been used during surgery to differentiate between cancerous tumors and healthy tissue....

A research team develops transfer-tattoo-like cell-sheet delivery induced by interfacial cell migration....

Researchers have developed biosensor technology that will allow you to operate devices, such as robots and machines, solely through thought control....

By adapting technology used for gamma-ray astronomy, researchers has found X-ray transitions previously thought to have been unpolarized according to atomic physics, are in fact highly polarized....

IQ scores have substantially increased from 1932 through the 20th century, with differences ranging from three to five IQ points per decade, according to a phenomenon known as the 'Flynn effect.' But a new study has found evidence of a reverse ...

Parasitic infections in salmonid fish can increase or decrease their vulnerability to angling, depending on their body condition....

Researchers have devised a new concept of superconducting microwave low-noise amplifiers for use in radio wave detectors for radio astronomy observations, and successfully demonstrated a high-performance cooled amplifier with power consumption three order...

The development of new information and communication technologies poses new challenges to scientists and industry. Designing new quantum materials -- whose exceptional properties stem from quantum physics -- is the most promising way to meet these challen...

Most people who ranked high in 'joy of missing out' or JOMO also reported high levels of social anxiety in a recent study. The term JOMO has been popularized as a healthy enjoyment of solitude in almost direct opposition to the negative FOMO, the ...

Hummingbirds use the hibernation-like state of torpor in varying ways, depending on their physical condition and what is happening in their environment, according to new research....

Scientists developing new biomaterials often try to mimic the body's natural proteins, but a chemist shows that simpler polymers -- based on a handful of plastic building blocks -- also work well. Using AI, her team was able to design polymer mixtures...

Researchers have detected previously overlooked eyes whose form and function could help to improve the evolutionary classification of archaic arthropods....

Researchers have identified several links between various risk factors and feline litterbox issues. Identifying a range of risk factors makes it possible to modify conditions in the cat's environment, thus preventing and reducing litterbox issues....

A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them....

The flavor of beer begins to change as soon as it's packaged, prompting a debate among afficionados: Does the beverage stay fresher in a bottle or a can? Now, researchers report that the answer is, well, complicated, and depends on the type of beer. A...

Synecoculture, a new farming method, involves growing mixed plant species together in high density. However, it requires complex operation since varying species with different growing seasons and growing speeds are planted on the same land. To address thi...

Certain personality traits are associated with satisfaction in life, and despite the changes people may experience in social roles and responsibilities over the course of their adult lives, that association is stable regardless of age, according to new re...

Gene therapy has been heralded as the new frontier of medicine, but there are still many limitations to current technologies; among them, how to deliver therapeutic genes to specific cells, and only activate them in the right context. A team has created a...

Wheat, which includes bread wheat and its relatives, is a staple food crop that feeds about 35% of the world's population. As one of the first ancient crops to appear in the Fertile Crescent, wheat has been cultivated for over 10,000 years since the &...

The flavor of beer begins to change as soon as it's packaged, prompting a debate among afficionados: Does the beverage stay fresher in a bottle or a can? Now, researchers report in ACS Food Science & Technology that the answer is, well, complicated, a...

A new way of describing the connections in real-world systems such as food webs or social networks could lead to better methods for predicting and controlling them....

Quantum "turnout" device has a switching speed four to five orders of magnitude faster than that of current solid-state transistors The post Photoexcited electrons from fullerene help create high-speed switch appeared first on Physics World ....

Trilobites, prehistoric sea creatures, had so-called median eyes, single eyes on their foreheads, in addition to their compound eyes, research conducted by Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann at the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology and Professor Dr. ...

A survey of prehistoric bones reveals that T. rex and some of its cousins had more than one way to reach enormous sizes. Evolution may have preserved that variation in modern animals too. The post Dinosaur Bone Study Reveals That Not All Giants Grew Alike...

Researchers have devised a new concept of superconducting microwave low-noise amplifiers for use in radio wave detectors for radio astronomy observations, and they have successfully demonstrated a high-performance cooled amplifier with power consumption t...

Wildfires are becoming a greater risk in many countries as the landscape dries. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Reading the latest international climate report can feel overwhelming. It describes how rising temperatures caused by ...

French lawmakers voted to require solar panel covers in most large parking lots. Teamjackson via iStock/Getty Images Plus It's easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it's now ...

The discovery of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have come despite its discoverer, Christiaan Huygens, needing eyeglasses....

The European Space Agency is working to get its ambitious Mars rover back on track after complex delays. The post Rosalind Franklin Rover Targeting 2028 Launch to Mars appeared first on Sky & Telescope ....

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein describes efforts to create a bibliography of papers by Black women in physics The post The importance of citing Black women in physics appeared first on Physics World ....

An ancient animal called Essexella may have been a type of burrowing sea anemone, a new study proposes....

Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the "pigeonhole principle," first conceived in 1622...

In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China....

If you're in your 20s, 30s or 40s, you need to know the signs to watch for and when to seek screening or treatment for colorectal cancer....