Remember #BabyShark? And no, this was not the very catchy song for kids that took the internet by storm. Earlier this year, social media was abuzz with stunning footage of a newborn great white s...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-baby-white-sharks-closer-shore.html
Researchers have revealed the regulatory mechanism of a specific protein that plays a key role in balancing the immune response triggered by viral infections in mammal cells. These findings could...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-key-protein-immune-response-viruses.html
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
While social psychology has long been interested in learning more about how one's moral values relate to one's political views, most of the research to date has used quite the same perspective.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-perspective-morality-based-nuances-values.html
Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to elucidate ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, this has not been the case with microbial popu...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-marine-microbial-populations-potential-sensors.html
In California's 2022-2023 winter season, the state faced nine atmospheric rivers (ARs) that led to extreme flooding, landslides, and power outages—the longest duration of continuous AR conditio...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-unraveling-mysteries-consecutive-atmospheric-river.html
When viewing biological samples with a microscope, the light beam is disturbed if the lens of the objective is in a different medium than the sample. For example, when looking at a watery sample ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-decades-problem-microscopy.html
The EU wants to ensure greater sustainability in agricultural trade with the Global South—with the aim of minimizing the environmental and climate-damaging effects of importing crops such as so...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ways-sustainability-global-agricultural.html
Although the troposphere is often thought of as the closest layer of the atmosphere to the Earth's surface, the planetary boundary layer (PBL)—the lowest layer of the troposphere—is actually ...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-deep-image-earth-planetary-boundary.html
Mathematically speaking, scoring 3.5 out of 5 is the same as receiving three and a half stars on a five-star scale. But visually speaking, the numbers don't add up.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-stars-consumers-online-formats.html
The beginning of life on Earth and its evolution over billions of years continue to intrigue researchers worldwide. The central dogma or the directional flow of genetic information from a deoxyri...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-rna-hidden-potential-unveils-role.html
A new study from Charles Darwin University (CDU), Monash University and The University of Newcastle has presented almost 100,000 estimates of groundwater recharge rates across Australia, by far t...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quickly-surface-groundwater-reservoirs-australia.html
Plastic is ubiquitous. It's in the clothes we wear, wrapped around the food we eat and in the toothpaste we use. It floats in the oceans and litters the snow on Mount Everest.
Coral reef fish, like the fish in other marine and freshwater ecosystems, are likely to reach smaller maximum sizes and start reproducing earlier with smaller and fewer eggs as climate change con...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-respiratory-stress-response-stunts-temperate.html
The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon was the largest accidental oil spill in history. With almost 100 million gallons (379 million liters) of oil combined with dispersants suggested to remai...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-fourteen-years-gulf-mexico-oil.html
With every new particle accelerator built for research, scientists have an opportunity to push the limits of discovery. But this is only true if new particle accelerators deliver the desired perf...
Indigenous aquaculture systems in Hawaiʻi, known as loko iʻa or fish ponds, can increase the amount of fish and fisheries harvested both inside and outside of the pond. This is the focus of a s...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-fish-ponds-hawaii-food-sustainability.html
A recent study published in the PNAS shows that western Central Asia has experienced a long-term drying trend over the past 7,800 years. This discovery, based on the analysis of a stalagmite from...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-reveal-hydroclimatic-multiple-timescales.html
Quantum technology is based on the engineering of devices that make use of the quantum properties of matter. One of the most prominent avenues of this technology is quantum computing, which may b...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-access-burgeoning-quantum-technology-field.html
A key feature of biological tissues is their inhomogeneity and their ability to grow via cell reproduction. To study this behavior, it is important to describe it using equations, which account f...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tissues-language-thermodynamics.html
Derek van Westrum, a physicist with NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), didn't want to be responsible for taking one of Colorado's beloved "Fourteeners" off the books.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reevaluation-colorado-iconic-summits-national.html
As the lunar exploration mission evolves from exploration to construction and utilization, in situ lunar construction becomes an imperative requirement. The key is regolith solidification and for...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-quantify-ideal-situ-method-lunar.html
An international team of researchers, led by Professor Jin Wu from the School of Biological Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has made a promising advancement in mapping plant functi...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-functional-diversity-space-ecosystem-field.html
In principle, one shouldn't compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one must do just that. Apples and oranges, it turns out, are said to be topologicall...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-topological-reversal-quantum.html
Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the Unive...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-coal-pollution-health-disparities.html
Being supported to find a home and then receiving ongoing specialized support services are the key combination in significantly improving the well-being of people who have experienced homelessnes...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-housing-benefits-homeless.html
Scientists on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon's most dramatic features: a mount...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-juno-aerial-views-mountain.html
Cancer-causing flame retardants found in everyday things like plastics, furniture, fabrics and electronics can be sucked up by the skin and absorbed into the bloodstream in 24 hours, scientists h...
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-toxic-fireproof-chemicals-absorbed-3d.html
Researchers have discovered new white shark behaviors by attaching smart tags and cameras to their fins, revealing never-before-seen details of the lives of the elusive creatures.
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tagging-elusive-white-shark.html
A new theory suggests that Titan's majestic dune fields may have come from outer space. Researchers had always assumed that the sand making up Titan's dunes was locally made, through erosion or c...