The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray wolf across much of the country, sparking outrage among ...
Bangladesh's weather bureau said Wednesday that last month was the hottest April on record, with the South Asian nation and much of the region still enduring a suffocating heat wave.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-april-temperatures-bangladesh-hottest.html
The climate phenomenon known as El Niño—and not climate change—was a key driver in low rainfall that disrupted shipping at the Panama Canal last year, scientists said Wednesday.
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-el-nino-climate-key-driver.html
How do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? And ultimately, how did the universe itself begin? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope will unravel some of the biggest mysteries ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-observatory-chile-highest-world-aims.html
Between 1999 and 2017, every state has passed a law addressing bullying, and 90% of those states amended or updated their laws, according to research that analyzes the most comprehensive legal da...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-captures-years-anti-bullying-legislation.html
Lonni Besançon devotes evenings and weekends to rarely appreciated sanitation work. By examining scientific articles after they are published and exposing shortcomings, he has made himself an en...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-academic-sleuth-death-threats-ingratitude.html
A study by the University of Cordoba analyzes trends in the blooming patterns of the genus Quercus in Andalusia, using pollen concentrations in the air and confirming their effects on allergies
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-climate-lengthens-blooming-holm-oak.html
A team of researchers led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig University (UL), and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has investigated th...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-intensity-grazing-locally-biodiversity-users.html
Nuclear energy has long been regarded as a next-generation energy source, and major countries around the world are competing to secure cutting-edge technologies by leveraging the high economic ef...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-discovery-uranium-contaminated-soil-purification.html
With climate change continuing its relentless march, the world faces not only rising temperatures and extreme weather but also an insidious threat to our homes: invasive termites. And the bill co...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-invasive-termites-dining-homes-reality.html
Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are remarkably long-lived. HSCs are blood-forming cells—they give rise to rapidly dividing progen...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-uncovers-secret-stem-cells.html
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pennsylvania have published a new Journal of Marketing study that examines online educational platforms and the question of whether t...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-online-platforms-courses-demand.html
For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from aviation for 197 countries covered by an international treaty ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-big-reveals-true-climate-impact.html
The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal whether their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into c...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-date-food-packaging-smart.html
A study by the University of Stirling has shed new light on how beavers reintroduced to Scotland indirectly interact with deer—and the implications for the woodlands they share.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scotland-beavers-interact-environment.html
Abercrombie & Fitch. Balenciaga. Starbucks. In recent years, these brands and many others have faced extreme public backlash due to insensitive comments from executives, changes to loyalty progra...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-immunizing-consumers-bad-news-brands.html
The default of Evergrande, one of China's largest developers, set off a chain of defaults among developers, triggering the ongoing property market crisis in China.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-overlooked-factor-china-real.html
When scientists look at the Earth's available water for ecosystem services, they don't just look at precipitation. They must also account for water moving from the ground to the atmosphere, a pro...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ai-uncertainty-evapotranspiration.html
Black drivers are more frequently searched during traffic stops without finding contraband than white drivers, according to a University of Michigan study.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-racial-bias-false-alarm-policing.html
Conservationists and scientists from almost 20 institutions in the United States, Europe, and Africa, have concluded that immediate conservation efforts to protect red colobus monkey species coul...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rare-group-monkeys-africa-tropical.html
Around 6,200 BCE, the climate changed. Global temperatures dropped, sea levels rose and the southern Levant, including modern-day Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, southern Sy...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-ancient-village-drought-seas.html
Bacteriophages, or phages for short, are viruses that infect bacteria and kill them through a lysis process. Phages can kill bacteria on or in a multicellular host organism, such as the polyp of ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-polyps-moon-jellyfish-repel-viral.html
A new study published in the Journal of Pest Science explores the biology, impact, management and potential distribution of the invasive, red-necked longhorn beetle (Aromia bungii) which has rece...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-explores-biology-impact-potential-destructive.html
Two detector upgrades of ALICE, the dedicated heavy-ion physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), have recently been approved for installation during the next long shutdown of the LH...
NASA and Rocket Lab are targeting no earlier than Wednesday, May 22, 2024, for the first of two launches of the agency's PREFIRE (Polar Radiant Energy in the Far-InfraRed Experiment) mission to s...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-date-nasa-prefire-mission-polar.html
The first national study to investigate workplace technology-facilitated sexual harassment (WTFSH) has revealed 1 in 7 Australian adults surveyed admit to engaging in this form of sexual harassme...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-australian-adults-workplace-technology-sexual.html
Research published in the International Journal of Environment and Waste Management has looked at how used diapers (baby nappies or adult napkins) and sanitary wear might be efficiently composted...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cow-dung-microorganisms-compost-diapers.html
Nitrogen deposition is one of the four main pressures on nature in Europe. Many of the Natura 2000 sites suffer from an excessive input of ammonium and nitrate from farming, industry, traffic and...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-habitats-vulnerable-nitrogen-deposition-previously.html
In 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled in "Bostock vs. Clayton County" that transgender people are legally protected from employment discrimination. This came at a time of increased visib...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-labor-transgender-people-sexual-minorities.html
New research demonstrates that seagrass habitat restoration can be enhanced by including other grasses in addition to the declining or lost species and—ultimately—that restoration efforts mus...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-seagrass-resistant-temperatures-generalist-grasses.html