Rabies is a major concern to both human and animal health, with rabies in dogs and cats widespread in Eastern Europe, and there are concerns the war in Ukraine could pose a greater risk of rabies...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quarantine-scheme-rabies-reintroduction-eu.html
The same geometric quirk that lets visitors murmur messages around the circular dome of the whispering gallery at St. Paul's Cathedral in London or across St. Louis Union Station's whispering arc...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-optical-barcodes-range-high-resolution.html
Stoners are not as lazy and unmotivated as stereotypes suggest, according to new U of T Scarborough research.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ditch-held-stereotypes-stoners.html
Pronouns like "he" and "she" are at the center of much debate as society tries to shift to using more gender-inclusive pronouns like "they"—especially when referring to those with identities th...
A technology has been developed to quickly convert livestock manure, a significant issue in animal farming, into valuable "black gold" rich in carbon within a day.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quickly-livestock-manure-biochar.html
Climate change is significantly altering bioclimatic environments in China's dry–wet transition zones, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Hydrology.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-climate-impact-china-drywet-transition.html
A prevailing opinion in land management is that non-native invasive plants are of no ecological value and they significantly diminish habitat quality for wildlife. Conservation practitioners allo...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bad-invasive-birds-large-scale.html
Platforms that offer rides to passengers, such as Uber and DiDi, thrive on socio-economic inequality. By modeling the behavior of passengers and self-employed drivers, researchers of TU Delft sim...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ridesourcing-platforms-socio-economic-inequality.html
A group of archaeologists, led by researchers from the University of Tokyo, announce the discovery of a part of a Roman villa built before the middle of the first century. This villa, near the to...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-vesuvius-home-roman-emperor.html
In the quantum world, processes can be separated into two distinct classes. One class, that of the so-called "perturbative" phenomena, is relatively easy to detect, both in an experiment and in a...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantum-tunnel-exact-instanton-transseries.html
Greening the way we eat needn't mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to "boring" vegetables. University of Copenhagen ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-umami-rich-scrap-fish-invasive.html
The case of a Florida bottlenose dolphin found with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, or HPAIV—a discovery made by University of Florida researchers in collaboration with multiple other ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-florida-dolphin-highly-pathogenic-avian.html
Landslides are one of the most destructive natural disasters on the planet, causing billions of dollars of damage and devastating loss of life every year. By introducing a new paradigm for studyi...
Interface engineering has been proven to be effective in discovering new quantum states, such as topological states, superconductivity, charge density waves, magnetism, etc., which require atomic...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-superconductivity-monolayer-fese-srtio8323001-metallic.html
Prof. Wu HengAn's team from the University of Science and Technology of China has presented six representative phases of amorphous carbons based on large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-imaging-microstructural-landscape-amorphous-carbons.html
PSW ecologist and tribal liaison Frank Lake wondered how the birds he grew up with in northeastern California were faring. As a Karuk tribal descendant with Yurok family, Lake has a deep connecti...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-avian-ambassadors-tribal-perspectives-bird.html
With a federal subsidy that has provided less expensive or free broadband internet to more than 23 million American households due to run out of money by the end of May, a new University of Massa...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-infrastructure-major-barrier-high-internet.html
Whether you're trying to predict a climate catastrophe or mental health crisis, mathematics tells us to look for fluctuations.
Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul. Around this time—approximately 65...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reconstruct-landscapes-humans-australia-years.html
Finding the best person to fill a position can be tough, from drafting a job ad to producing a shortlist of top interview candidates.
A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. Th...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-dark-aims-ghostly-substance-actual.html
Herds of endangered hippos stuck in the mud of dried-up ponds are in danger of dying in drought-struck Botswana, conservation authorities told AFP Friday.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-herds-endangered-hippos-mud-drought.html
In the last several decades, large forest fires have increasingly threatened communities across the Mediterranean. Climate change is expected to make these fires larger, hotter, and more dangerou...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-anthropologist-documents-women-shepherds-historically.html
Emmanuelle Butty, med.vet., DACVIM (SAIM), assistant clinical professor at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, sometimes treats dogs with leptospirosis, an infection that can lead to kidney f...
While it can be hard for us to notice as we go about our busy lives, cities are filled with indigenous plants, fungi, insects, spiders and other little creatures, as well as birds, frogs and rept...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rare-species-backyard-global-citizen.html
A collaborative research team from NIMS and Tokyo University of Science has successfully developed an artificial intelligence (AI) device that executes brain-like information processing through f...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-high-precision-blood-glucose-molecule.html
The hyper-arid desert of Eastern Sudan, the Atbai Desert, seems like an unlikely place to find evidence of ancient cattle herders. But in this dry environment, my new research has found rock art ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-art-discoveries-eastern-sudan-tale.html
Traditional memory devices are volatile and the current non-volatile ones rely on either ferromagnetic or ferroelectric materials for data storage. In ferromagnetic devices, data is written or st...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-memory-technology-multiferroic-nanodots-power.html
Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering co-led a new study by an international team that will improve the detection of gravitational waves—ripp...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-advance-gravitational-collisions-neutron-stars.html
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have constructed a robot that uses machine learning to fully automate a complicated microinjection process used in genetic research.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-automated-machine-robot-potential-genetics.html