The Bike Bus movement has emerged as a powerful tool to promote road safety, sustainability and community. According to a global survey carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and T...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bike-bus-gains-sustainable-safe.html
New details have emerged about the history of one of St. Augustine's most popular tourist attractions. University of South Florida Spanish Professor David Arbesú pieced together documents that w...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-hidden-story-st-augustine.html
John Stone, a professor at the University of Barcelona, has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare's Othello to be sent to Lisbon in 1765, in the correspondence of the English scholar Jo...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-shakespeare-plays-portugal.html
Scientists from the University of Sharjah and the Warburg Institute are poring over the writings of an 11th-century Arab-Muslim polymath to demonstrate their impact on the development of optical ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-11th-century-arab-muslim-optical.html
Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today—and that's partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery,...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-young-black-scientist-pivotal-leprosy.html
It's Saturday, which means that in a universe where the arrow of time moves backward, people have to go to work tomorrow. In such a hypothetical universe, Garfield hates Fridays—tough to imagin...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-bird-qubits-impossible.html
While I was assembling and formatting all these links, we had a 4.8-magnitude earthquake here on the East Coast, so apologies in advance for any misaligned text. This week: Gravitationally accele...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-ai-prisoner-dilemma.html
New research highlights how in the 1930s, the relationship between radio and Finland's most famous composer Jean Sibelius had an important effect on the development of broadcast operations as wel...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-radio-famous-finnish-jean-sibelius.html
Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution�...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-britain-began-industrializing-17th-century.html
The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is canceling visits to nearly two dozen facilities expected to be thrown into "total darkness" amid the solar eclipse on Apr...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-upcoming-solar-eclipse-prompts-ny.html
Some political figures seek to remove references to slavery from the study of American history, adding to the vast knowledge gaps that stem from the transatlantic slave trade. To better understan...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-qa-genetic-genealogy-family-narratives.html
Is the milk sold today similar to the milk available 100 years ago? Here, drink this and give me your results. Also, physicists achieve superconductivity at a temperature slightly higher than 0 d...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-year-hot-qubits.html
Israeli scientist Ellen Graber has spent years researching ways to save chocolate crops from climate change. But with the government slashing spending to fund the war in Gaza, her project is one ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-israel-war-scientists-limbo.html
If you missed some of our top stories this week, we have you covered. From an underachieving black hole to a new species of fluffy beetle, you can see it all here.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-anemic-galaxy-black.html
Britain's Cambridge University confirmed on Monday that it has adopted a moratorium on new funding from fossil fuel companies after a campaign from students and academics.
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-uk-cambridge-university-halts-fossil.html
The progress of science in the last 400 years is mind blowing. Who would have thought we'd be able to trace the history of our universe to its origins 14 billion years ago? Science has increased ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-mystery-consciousness-limit-science.html
In the 1980s, a shell collection that included specimens from Captain Cook's final voyage was accidentally thrown into a skip and believed lost forever. But much to the joy of scientists, last we...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-18th-century-shell-story-empire.html
You never can tell when planetary scientists are going to discover a new giant volcano on Mars, but when it happens, I step out to the porch and raise my Lunar and Planetary Society Core-Mantle B...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-volcanoes-mars-starship.html
In patent law, invention is a two-step process: the inventor first develops a complete mental picture of the invention, then physically makes the invention or describes it in sufficient detail fo...
When media coverage doesn't include the numerical magnitude of a scientific study's effect, the risk of readers developing biases increases significantly, according to a new University of Michiga...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-news-dont-magnitude-scientific.html
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Rodents eating herbal remedies. I watched a truck mistaken for an alien message. All those moments will be lost in time, like the Upper West Side und...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-rumbly-guts-alien.html
"Missing Girls in Historical Europe" is a major research project at NTNU in which researchers have looked into numbers of girls and boys in European countries over a 250-year period. They found t...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-female-infants-male-die-europe.html
Sixty-eight Nobel science laureates urged Argentina's self-professed "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei Wednesday to restore budgets for science and technology that have been cut under h...
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-nobel-laureates-milei-canceling-scientific.html
It's been a long, eight-day leap week, and this weekend, I'm spending my free time working on the manuscript for my style guide for science writers, "How to Effectively Split an Infinitive."
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-saturday-citations-wont-black-hole.html
Two years of war in Ukraine have caused widespread devastation to the country's citizenry, infrastructure and environment, and new research utilizing publicly accessible satellite imagery lays ba...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-animated-reveal-true-devastation-ukraine.html
From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting developments over the pa...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-neurology-pair-bonding.html
The glittering diamonds sparkle the same but there are key differences: mined natural gems are more than a billion years old, while laboratory-made rocks are new and cost less than half the price...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-lab-grown-diamonds-natural-gems.html
Einstein's inexhaustible field equations just keep on predicting weird stellar objects, and the latest one is a doozy—so strap on your helmet, inside of which is another helmet, encasing still ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-einstein-revisited-atlantic.html
EU and UK science chiefs on Monday launched a push to attract scientists to Europe's £80 billion Horizon research program after warnings of high costs and red tape in Britain.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-eu-uk-urge-scientists-brexit.html
"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just editing a weekly roundup of science news stories for Saturday morning." This is the first line from my autobiographical one-man play about having mu...
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-saturday-citations-dark-bug-marriageability.html