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2024-04-05T02:08:06Z	**Do immigrants and immigration help the economy?**
When Americans mark their presidential election ballots later this year, immigration will be top of mind—it's the nation's number one issue, according to pollster Gallup. And one of the toughest talkers on the topic is former president and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. He's built his political career on calls to secure the border and defend America against what he says are immigration's dangers, warning of shrinking wages and stretched benefits pr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-immigrants-immigration-economy.html)
2024-04-05T02:07:27Z	**Propelling atomically layered magnets toward green computers**
Globally, computation is booming at an unprecedented rate, fueled by the boons of artificial intelligence. With this, the staggering energy demand of the world's computing infrastructure has become a major concern, and the development of computing devices that are far more energy-efficient is a leading challenge for the scientific community. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-propelling-atomically-layered-magnets-green.html)
2024-04-05T08:10:01Z	**Scientists harness chemical dynamics for complex problem solving**
At the intersection of chemistry and computation, researchers from the University of Glasgow have developed a hybrid digital-chemical probabilistic computational system based on the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction which can be used for solving combinatorial optimization problems. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-harness-chemical-dynamics-complex.html)
2024-04-05T12:16:04Z	**Youth grapple with interpreting the unspoken for their immigrant families**
UC Merced researchers are shedding light on a little-explored aspect of cross-cultural communication that involves no spoken words but sometimes can cause confusion and anguish for children acting as interpreters for older family members. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-youth-grapple-unspoken-immigrant-families.html)
2024-04-06T06:19:22Z	**Dinosaur study challenges Bergmann's rule**
When you throw dinosaurs into the mix, sometimes you find that a rule simply isn't. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-dinosaur-bergmann.html)
2024-04-06T11:00:01Z	**Jurassic shuotheriids reveal earliest dental diversification of mammaliaforms**
Paleontologists have presented a new insight into the initial dental variations across mammaliaforms, providing a fresh perspective on the evolutionary past of these ancient beasts. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-jurassic-shuotheriids-reveal-earliest-dental.html)
2024-04-07T07:30:01Z	**Scientists investigate information propagation in interacting bosonic systems**
A new study by scientists from Japan explores the propagation of quantum information within interacting boson systems like Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), revealing the potential for accelerated transmission unlike previously thought. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-propagation-interacting-bosonic.html)
2024-04-07T11:40:02Z	**Citizen science group plans to use the 2024 eclipse for ionospheric discovery**
As the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, draws closer, a vibrant community of enthusiastic amateur radio operators, known as "hams," is gearing up for an exciting project with the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) group. Our goal is clear and ambitious: to use the moon's shadow as a natural laboratory to uncover the intricacies of the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's atmosphere crucial for radio co ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-citizen-science-group-eclipse-ionospheric.html)
2024-04-07T16:20:01Z	**Eclipse viewing safety: Keeping your & your kid's vision safe**
People preparing to watch Monday's total eclipse of the sun need to protect their vision during the event, eye doctors say. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-eclipse-viewing-safety-kid-vision.html)
2024-04-08T04:21:14Z	**Weather is the hot topic as eclipse spectators stake out their spots in US, Mexico and Canada**
Eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries Sunday, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-weather-hot-topic-eclipse-spectators.html)
2024-04-08T08:50:01Z	**Carbon trading solutions for declining coral reef management tested with game theory**
Climate change in the media is often represented through evocative images of polar bears on small floating ice rafts and bleached corals—stark white skeletons in the wasteland of a once-thriving marine community. Besides being diverse ecosystems, coral reefs have a vital role in dissipating wave energy to protect coastlines from erosion and natural disasters, as well as being important sources of tourism income  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-carbon-solutions-declining-coral-reef.html)
2024-04-08T12:55:03Z	**Office gossip isn't just idle chatter. It's a valuable—but risky—way to build relationships**
Gossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our workplace relationships more than we realize. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-office-gossip-isnt-idle-chatter.html)
2024-04-08T12:54:04Z	**The flavors of fire: How does heat make food taste good?**
Sure, cooking our food can make it safer to eat and more digestible. But let's be honest. We mainly cook to create something we enjoy—something delicious. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-flavors-food-good.html)
2024-04-08T16:59:02Z	**On-surface synthesis of carbyne: An sp-hybridized linear carbon allotrope**
In a study led by Prof. Wei Xu (Interdisciplinary Materials Research Center, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University) and published in the journal National Science Review, a research team achieved the successful synthesis of a one-dimensional carbon chain on the Au(111) surface, with the longest chain containing approximately 120 carbon atoms, and the polyynic nature of the carbon chain was unambig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-surface-synthesis-carbyne-sp-hybridized.html)
2024-04-09T04:18:39Z	**Can't get enough of the total solar eclipse or got clouded out? Here are the next ones to watch for**
Whether you saw the moon completely block the sun, were foiled by cloudy weather or weren't along the path of Monday's total solar eclipse, there are still more chances to catch a glimpse. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-total-solar-eclipse-clouded.html)
2024-04-09T04:18:10Z	**Broken record: March is 10th straight month to be hottest on record, scientists say**
For the 10th consecutive month, Earth in March set a new monthly record for global heat—with both air temperatures and the world's oceans hitting an all-time high for the month, the European Union climate agency Copernicus said. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-broken-10th-straight-month-hottest.html)
2024-04-09T04:17:41Z	**Total solar eclipse wows North America. Clouds part just in time for most**
After beholding the midday darkness of a total solar eclipse that raced across the continent, thousands of spectators in New England were stuck seeing only brake lights Monday night as highway traffic backed up for hours. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-total-solar-eclipse-wows-north.html)
2024-04-09T09:37:04Z	**Research team exerts electrical control over polaritons, hybridized light-matter particles, at room temperature**
A research team has pioneered an innovative technique in ultra-high-resolution spectroscopy. Their breakthrough marks the world's first instance of electrically controlling polaritons—hybridized light-matter particles—at room temperature. The research has been published in Physical Review Letters. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-exerts-electrical-polaritons-hybridized.html)
2024-04-09T14:10:05Z	**Four decades of glacial data reveals substantial losses and water worries**
An analysis of glacial data spanning four decades has provided valuable insights into the changes taking place in the glaciers of the Pir Panjal range within the Kashmir basin in India. The research, published in the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, analyzed data for the period 1980 to 2020. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-decades-glacial-reveals-substantial-losses.html)
2024-04-09T20:00:01Z	**A microbial plastic factory for high-quality green plastic**
Engineered bacteria can produce a plastic modifier that makes renewably sourced plastic more processable, more fracture-resistant and highly biodegradable even in seawater. The Kobe University development provides a platform for the industrial-scale, tunable production of a material that holds great potential for turning the plastic industry green. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-microbial-plastic-factory-high-quality.html)
2024-04-10T04:09:32Z	**In some classrooms in Senegal, deaf and hard-of-hearing students now study alongside everyone else**
Mouhamed Sall stepped to the chalkboard with a glance and quick question in sign language to an assistant. Then he solved the exercise to the silent approval of his classmates, who waved their hands in a display of appreciation. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-classrooms-senegal-deaf-hard-students.html)
2024-04-10T09:00:01Z	**Deforestation harms biodiversity of the Amazon's perfume-loving orchid bees**
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondônia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light on the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-deforestation-biodiversity-amazon-perfume-orchid.html)
2024-04-10T13:16:03Z	**Polysaccharide-based membranes with high wet mechanical properties for bone repair**
Currently, membrane materials play an important role in tissue repair, especially polysaccharide-based membranes, attracting much attention due to their excellent biological properties. However, poor mechanical properties of polysaccharide-based membranes under wet conditions severely limit their in vivo applications. The fabrication of polysaccharide-based membranes with both robust wet mechanical proper ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-polysaccharide-based-membranes-high-mechanical.html)
2024-04-10T13:10:01Z	**Tiny crystals capture millions of years of mountain range history: Geologist excavates the Himalayas with a microscope**
The Himalayas stand as Earth's highest mountain range, possibly the highest ever. How did it form? Why is it so tall? ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tiny-crystals-capture-millions-years.html)
2024-04-10T17:50:01Z	**Talking to Americans reveals the diversity behind the shared opinion 'the country is on the wrong track'**
If you pay any attention to politics and polling, you have likely heard that your friends and neighbors are not very happy with the direction of the country. You might not be, either. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-americans-reveals-diversity-opinion-country.html)
2024-04-11T03:37:57Z	**Scientists are grasping at straws while trying to protect infant corals from hungry fish**
South Florida researchers trying to prevent predatory fish from devouring laboratory-grown coral are grasping at biodegradable straws in an effort to restore what some call the rainforest of the sea. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-grasping-straws-infant-corals.html)
2024-04-11T09:42:33Z	**Keys to the genome: Unlocking the package with 'pioneer transcription factors'**
Scientists at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute have discovered the molecular mechanisms responsible for opening up the human genome and expressing new genes. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-keys-genome-package-transcription-factors.html)
2024-04-11T09:40:24Z	**New advances promise secure quantum computing at home**
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford University Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is detailed in a new study published in Physical Review Letters. The paper is titled "Verifiable blind quantum computing with trapped ions and  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-advances-quantum-home.html)
2024-04-11T09:40:02Z	**Ghost roads speed destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests, finds study**
Researchers mapping tropical forests have found many more roads than declared by official sources, which is raising fears of a huge increase in environmental degradation as the pace of road building increases. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ghost-roads-destruction-asia-pacific.html)
2024-04-11T09:39:57Z	**Team finds evidence of commonly conducted ritualized human sacrifice across Europe in the Stone Age**
A team of archaeologists affiliated with several institutions in France and one in Germany has found that ritualized human sacrifice was common across Europe during the Neolithic. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-team-evidence-commonly-ritualized-human.html)
2024-04-11T13:50:01Z	**Most countries do not take a fair share of refugees. Here's how we could incentivize them**
Since its introduction in 1951, the UN refugee convention has been the basis for the global refugee system. It defines who a refugee is and outlines the rights they are entitled to. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-countries-fair-refugees-incentivize.html)
2024-04-12T04:24:32Z	**NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter's possibly life-sustaining moon**
US space scientists on Thursday unveiled the interplanetary probe NASA plans to send to one of Jupiter's icy moons as part of humanity's hunt for extra-terrestrial life. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-unveils-probe-bound-jupiter.html)
2024-04-12T09:03:03Z	**Microbial food as a food production strategy of the future**
The global food crisis is increasing due to rapid population growth and declining food productivity from climate change. Moreover, today's food production and supply system emits a huge amount of carbon dioxide, reaching 30% of the total amount emitted by humanity, further aggravating climate change. Sustainable and nutritious microbial food is attracting attention as a key to overcoming this impasse. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-microbial-food-production-strategy-future.html)
2024-04-12T13:41:03Z	**One in 10 Australians sexually harassed by peers: Study**
The first nationally representative figures on the prevalence of sexual harassment across childhood reveal females and those who are gender or sexuality diverse are most at risk. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-australians-sexually-peers.html)
2024-04-12T13:39:03Z	**Designing a cost-effective X-ray free electron lasers facility**
Many advances in structural science since the 1970s were made by probing materials with synchrotron radiation: that is, high energy X-rays generated through accelerating high-energy electrons. The latest generation of such sources, X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL), are far more powerful than their predecessors but are only accessible to international consortia and a few rich countries because of their high cost. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-effective-ray-free-electron-lasers.html)
2024-04-12T13:28:03Z	**Problems with 3 Body Problem? Experts discuss physics, mathematics behind hit Netflix show**
The science fiction television series 3 Body Problem, the latest from the creators of HBO's Game of Thrones, has become the most watched show on Netflix since its debut last month. Based on the bestselling book trilogy Remembrance of Earth's Past by Chinese computer engineer and author Cixin Liu, 3 Body Problem introduces viewers to advanced concepts in physics in service to a suspenseful story involving i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-problems-body-problem-experts-discuss.html)
2024-04-12T13:17:05Z	**Environmental groups grateful but vigilant after Key Bridge collapse**
When Alice Volpitta watched the video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, and the trucks tumbling into the Patapsco River in the darkness, she thought first for the people who had fallen. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-environmental-groups-vigilant-key-bridge.html)
2024-04-12T13:16:03Z	**New species of ant found pottering under the Pilbara named after Voldemort**
A study by The University of Western Australia has unearthed a new species of subterranean ant that shares some traits with a well-known Harry Potter villain. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-species-ant-pottering-pilbara-voldemort.html)
2024-04-12T13:09:04Z	**Biden plans sweeping effort to block Arctic oil drilling**
The U.S. set aside 23 million acres of Alaska's North Slope to serve as an emergency oil supply a century ago. Now, President Joe Biden is moving to block oil and gas development across roughly half of it. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-biden-effort-block-arctic-oil.html)
2024-04-12T13:07:06Z	**Persistent socioeconomic gaps for Black Californians would take more than 248 years to close unless more is done: Report**
Almost two decades ago, the inaugural State of Black California report was the first to provide a comprehensive look at how the material conditions and socioeconomic outcomes for Black Californians fared compared to other racial and ethnic groups. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-persistent-socioeconomic-gaps-black-californians.html)
2024-04-12T13:05:05Z	**The cicadas are coming: An entomologist's take on a once-in-200-years event**
Get ready. Billions of trillions of singing, winged insects with big red eyes are about to emerge from more than a decade of sleep underground. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cicadas-entomologist-years-event.html)
2024-04-13T06:30:01Z	**Study lists world's 'forever chemical' hotspots**
Dangerous concentrations of long-lingering "forever chemicals" have been found in surface and groundwater worldwide, according to a study released Tuesday that showed Australia, the United States and Europe as hotspots. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-world-chemical-hotspots.html)
2024-04-13T13:40:01Z	**What did Roman wine taste like? Much better than previously thought, according to new research**
From a modern, scientific perspective, the wine Romans drank is often seen as an inconsistent, poorly made and thoroughly unpleasant beverage. It is alleged that Roman winemakers had to mask their products' flaws by adding spices, herbs and other ingredients to the freshly pressed grape juice, which is known as "must." ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-roman-wine-previously-thought.html)
2024-04-14T07:00:01Z	**Scientists find vast numbers of illegal 'ghost roads' used to crack open pristine rainforest**
One of Brazil's top scientists, Eneas Salati, once said, "The best thing you could do for the Amazon rainforest is to blow up all the roads." He wasn't joking. And he had a point. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-vast-illegal-ghost-roads.html)
2024-04-14T13:00:02Z	**Tandem heat waves, storm surges increasingly batter coasts: Study**
Coastal communities need to prepare for simultaneous extreme weather events as heat waves increasingly overlap with surges in sea levels due to climate change, a study published on Thursday warned. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tandem-storm-surges-batter-coasts.html)
2024-04-14T19:30:02Z	**Digging up new species of Australia and New Guinea's giant fossil kangaroos**
Paleontologists from Flinders University have described three unusual new species of giant fossil kangaroo from Australia and New Guinea, finding them more diverse in shape, range and hopping method than previously thought. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-species-australia-guinea-giant-fossil.html)
2024-04-15T04:13:00Z	**Japan's Sapporo sees earliest 25C day since records began**
Temperatures in Japan's northern city of Sapporo—famous for skiing—on Monday passed 25 degrees Celsius at the earliest point of any year on record, a weather agency official said. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-japan-sapporo-earliest-25c-day.html)
2024-04-15T09:27:57Z	**First insights into the genetic bottleneck characterizing early sheep husbandry in the Neolithic period**
Modern Eurasian sheep predominantly belong to only two so-called genetic matrilineages inherited through the ewes, so previous research has assumed that genetic diversity must already have decreased rapidly in the early stages of domestication of wild sheep. A study of a series of complete mitogenomes from the early domestication site Asıklı Höyük in central Anatolia, which was inha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-insights-genetic-bottleneck-characterizing-early.html)
2024-04-15T09:27:20Z	**Chemists stabilize ethylene on silver in search for better ethylene purification technology**
Production of ethylene is one of the most important chemical processes used today, with about 300 million metric tons of the tiny chemical produced each year. Ethylene gas is used to create everyday items like shopping bags and plastic film packaging. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chemists-stabilize-ethylene-silver-purification.html)
2024-04-15T09:26:02Z	**Lynx found at bottom of Roman era pit, along with four dogs, mystifies archaeologists**
A team of archaeologists at the Institute of Archaeology, HUN-REN Research Center for the Humanities, in Hungary, working with a colleague from Stockholm University, has revisited a mystery: a Roman era lynx skeleton buried in a pit with four dog skeletons, all layered above it. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-lynx-bottom-roman-era-pit.html)
2024-04-15T09:22:02Z	**Clay-assisted organic carbon burial induced early Paleozoic atmospheric oxygenation, data show**
In a study published in Science Advances, scientists have used new lithium isotope (δ7Li) data to show that continental clay export promoted organic carbon burial and thus atmospheric oxygenation during the Cambrian period. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-clay-carbon-burial-early-paleozoic.html)
2024-04-15T13:30:01Z	**Victorian London was a city in flux: Architectural models helped the public visualize the changes**
In 1848, the British government decided to draw up a precisely measured map of London. Imperial expansion had seen the city develop quickly, particularly around the docks and the City of London. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-victorian-london-city-flux-architectural.html)
2024-04-15T13:30:01Z	**Officials sued over farm chemicals near Latino schools**
For Nelly Vaquera-Boggs, the plastic tarps that cover strawberry fields in Monterey County, California, when they are being fumigated with toxic chemicals offer little comfort—especially when those fields are close to schools. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-sued-farm-chemicals-latino-schools.html)
2024-04-15T19:00:01Z	**New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space**
Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and reassembled on the journey it took through space before landing in an English sheep field in 2021. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-analysis-reveals-brutal-history-winchcombe.html)
2024-04-16T03:00:01Z	**Seed ferns experimented with complex leaf vein networks 201 million years ago, paleontologists find**
According to a research team led by paleontologists from the University of Vienna, the net-like leaf veining typical for today's flowering plants developed much earlier than previously thought, but died out again several times. Using new methods, the fossilized plant Furcula granulifer was identified as an early forerunner. The leaves of this seed fern species already exhibited the net-like veining in the  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-seed-ferns-complex-leaf-vein.html)
2024-04-16T03:00:01Z	**Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found**
Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it imposes an odd 'wobbling' motion on the companion star orbiting it. Data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) and other ground-based observatories were used to verify the mass of the black hole, putting it at an impres ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-massive-stellar-black-hole-galaxy.html)
2024-04-16T08:24:04Z	**Attosecond imaging made possible by short and powerful laser pulses**
Extremely short pulses of laser light with a peak power of 6 terawatts (6 trillion watts)—roughly equivalent to the power produced by 6,000 nuclear power plants—have been realized by two RIKEN physicists. This achievement will help further develop attosecond lasers, for which three researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2023. The work is published in the journal Nature Photonics. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-attosecond-imaging-short-powerful-laser.html)
2024-04-16T12:40:01Z	**'Urban form' and the housing crisis: Can streets and buildings make a neighborhood more affordable?**
As of 2007, most humans live in cities. Though this is a relatively recent trend, many of our settlements contain street, block, and building patterns that have developed over centuries. These patterns—which collectively make up what we call "urban form"—are far from a neutral backdrop: they influence who lives where, what businesses find footholds in which locations, and what makes some areas ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-urban-housing-crisis-streets-neighborhood.html)
2024-04-16T12:40:01Z	**Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available**
On April 22, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could radically change how cities respond to the growing problem of homelessness. It also could significantly worsen the nation's racial justice gap. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-supreme-court-local-crime-space.html)
2024-04-16T16:41:01Z	**NASA's VIPER moon rover gets its head and neck**
In this image from Feb. 12, 2024, engineers lift a mast into place on NASA's VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) robotic moon rover. VIPER's mast and the suite of instruments affixed to it look a lot like the rover's "neck" and "head." The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers and real-time scientists send commands and receive data while the rover navigates around hazardous crater slopes, boulders, and places that  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-viper-moon-rover-neck.html)
2024-04-17T04:00:01Z	**Silver-based micromotors that eliminate bacteria can move freely in aqueous media**
Researchers at ICIQ in Tarragona have developed a simple technique to produce microscopic crystals that activate in the presence of light, releasing silver ions with antimicrobial activity. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-silver-based-micromotors-bacteria-freely.html)
2024-04-17T08:53:00Z	**Astronomers discover the most metal-poor extreme helium star**
Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a recently detected extreme helium star designated EC 19529–4430. It turned out that EC 19529–4430 is the most metal deficient among the population of known extreme helium stars. The finding was reported in a research paper published April 5 on the pre-print server arXiv. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-metal-poor-extreme-helium.html)
2024-04-17T13:00:04Z	**Mountain chickadees have remarkable memories. A new study explains why**
Lost your keys? Can't remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mountain-chickadees-remarkable-memories.html)
2024-04-17T13:00:01Z	**Higher density living is changing the way neighborhoods work in Canada**
There is growing concern about people's unwillingness to get to know their neighbors. This concern is significant enough to have spurred research into what has been termed the "emerging asocial society"—one of the challenge areas of an initiative called Imagining Canada's Future. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-higher-density-neighborhoods-canada.html)
2024-04-17T17:14:04Z	**Researchers identify genetic variant that helped shape human skull base evolution**
Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the shape of the base of the skull. The evolutionary changes underlying these features were significant in allowing the evolution of our increased brain size. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-genetic-variant-human-skull-base.html)
2024-04-18T03:54:10Z	**Indonesians leave homes near erupting volcano and airport closes due to ash danger**
Indonesian authorities closed an airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano Thursday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-indonesians-homes-erupting-volcano-airport.html)
2024-04-18T03:53:58Z	**Here's why experts don't think cloud seeding played a role in Dubai's downpour**
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood—at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-experts-dont-cloud-seeding-played.html)
2024-04-18T08:29:54Z	**SpaceX tallies 1st of two launches over two days from Space Coast**
SpaceX launched Wednesday evening the first of a pair of Space Coast rockets in two days, both carrying batches of the company's Starlink satellites. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-spacex-tallies-1st-days-space.html)
2024-04-18T13:03:47Z	**First evidence of ancient human occupation found in giant lava tube cave in Saudi Arabia**
If you look from above, you can see thousands of stone structures dotting the landscape of the Arabian peninsula. On the ground, you can find a bounty of stone tools and ancient fireplaces scattered along the edges of ancient lakes, as well as rock art depicting hunting and herding scenes in the surrounding mountains. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-evidence-ancient-human-occupation-giant.html)
2024-04-18T13:03:42Z	**Why the kookaburra's iconic laugh is at risk of being silenced**
Once, while teaching a class of environmental science students in China's Hebei University of Science and Technology, I asked who knew what a laughing kookaburra was. There were many blank faces. Then I tilted my head, much like a kookaburra does, and opened my mouth: "kok-kak-KAK-KAK-KAK-KOK-KAK-KOK-kook-kook-kok, kok, kok." I became the "bushman's alarm clock". ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-kookaburra-iconic-silenced.html)
2024-04-18T13:03:39Z	**Materials follow the 'Rule of Four,' but scientists don't know why yet**
Scientists are normally happy to find regularities and correlations in their data—but only if they can explain them. Otherwise, they worry that those patterns might just be revealing some flaw in the data itself, so-called experimental artifacts. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-materials-scientists-dont.html)
2024-04-18T20:10:01Z	**Key protein regulates immune response to viruses in mammal cells**
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 help drive the development of antiviral therapies and nucleic acid medicines to treat genetic disorders. The research is published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-key-protein-immune-response-viruses.html)
2024-04-19T03:59:20Z	**Indonesia on alert for more eruptions at remote volcano**
Indonesian authorities were on alert Friday for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this week, as nearby residents began clearing debris after molten rocks rained down on their villages. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-indonesia-eruptions-remote-volcano.html)
2024-04-19T08:09:09Z	**Remote Indonesia volcano erupts again after thousands evacuated**
A remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky Friday, after nearly half a dozen eruptions earlier this week forced thousands to evacuate when molten rocks rained down on their villages. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-remote-indonesia-volcano-erupts-thousands.html)
2024-04-19T12:14:04Z	**Global study finds there really are more insects out after dark**
Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-global-insects-dark.html)
2024-04-20T03:48:46Z	**More than 2,100 people are evacuated as an Indonesian volcano spews clouds of ash**
More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island were evacuated Friday due to the dangers of spreading ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-people-evacuated-indonesian-volcano-spews.html)
2024-04-20T10:20:01Z	**Astronomers discover largest black hole in Milky Way: Study**
Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, according to a study published on Tuesday. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-largest-black-hole-milky.html)
2024-04-20T15:20:01Z	**This ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton**
A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ancient-snake-india-longer-school.html)
2024-04-21T05:50:02Z	**Q&A: B.C.'s 2024 wildfire season has started—here's what to know**
Last year's wildfire season marked B.C.'s most destructive on record: 2.8 million hectares burned, more than double any previous year. UBC researchers Dr. Lori Daniels and Dr. Mathieu Bourbonnais actively work on projects enhancing wildfire resilience, collaborating with community, government, private-sector and academic partners, and First Nations. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-qa-bc-wildfire-season.html)
2024-04-21T05:42:42Z	**Malians struggle to cope after deadly heat wave**
In Mali's capital Bamako, Aboubacar Pamateck runs a scarf under a trickle of water and wraps it around his head to cope with the West African nation's soaring heat. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-malians-struggle-cope-deadly.html)
2024-04-21T11:50:02Z	**Scientists find common genes defending coffee plants against devastating disease**
Arabica coffee is the most economically important coffee globally and accounts for 60% of coffee products worldwide. But the plants it hails from are vulnerable to a disease that, in the 1800s, devastated Sri Lanka's coffee empire. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-common-genes-defending-coffee.html)
2024-04-21T19:00:01Z	**Everest mountaineer's letters digitized for the first time**
Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal attempt to scale Everest. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-everest-mountaineer-letters-digitized.html)
2024-04-22T04:02:24Z	**In Ecuadoran Amazon, butterflies provide a gauge of climate change**
Biologists on a trail in the Ecuadoran Amazon hold their breath as they distribute a foul-smelling delicacy to lure butterflies, critical pollinators increasingly threatened by climate change. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ecuadoran-amazon-butterflies-gauge-climate.html)
2024-04-22T08:51:03Z	**Researchers uncover details of how bacteria build protective barriers, may inform new antibiotics**
Yale researchers have uncovered new details on how bacteria like E. coli build their protective barriers, which will inform new antibiotic development. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-uncover-bacteria-barriers-antibiotics.html)
2024-04-22T08:50:03Z	**Astronomers offer new model for formation of recently discovered 'free-floating' planets**
The recent discovery of a potential new class of distant and mysterious "free-floating" planets has intrigued astronomers since stunning new images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope were shared late last year. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-astronomers-formation-free-planets.html)
2024-04-22T12:57:03Z	**Novel graphene oxide spray coating advances antiviral protection of face masks**
In the relentless battle against airborne viruses, researchers have developed a new spray coating to improve the antiviral efficacy of personal protective equipment, notably face masks. The study is published in the journal ACS Applied Nano Materials. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-graphene-oxide-spray-coating-advances.html)
2024-04-22T17:01:03Z	**Mitochondrial DNA copy number contributes to growth diversity in allopolyploid fish**
Understanding the relationship between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and animal growth could provide valuable information for selective breeding in aquaculture. However, the complex interactions between genetics and environmental factors often hinders progress in this field. To that end, a recent study published in Reproduction and Breeding investigated the cross-sectional diameter of skeletal muscle fibers  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mitochondrial-dna-contributes-growth-diversity.html)
2024-04-22T17:00:01Z	**Research suggests historically redlined areas see more modern-day gun violence**
In the 1930s, the United States government introduced redlining, a discriminatory practice that categorized neighborhoods based on people's race or ethnicity and denied financial services to residents in certain areas—redlining disproportionately affected marginalized communities. While redlining was officially outlawed in 1968, new research from Boston Children's Hospital suggests a relationship between historic red ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-historically-redlined-areas-modern-day.html)
2024-04-23T04:02:47Z	**To accelerate biosphere science, researchers say reconnect three scientific cultures**
Researchers who study Earth's biosphere tend to operate from one of three scientific cultures, each with distinct ways of conducting science, and which have been operating mostly independently from one another, find the authors of a Perspective published in PNAS on April 19, 2024. SFI Professors Christopher Kempes and Geoffrey West, together with External Professor Brian Enquist (University of Arizona) ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-biosphere-science-reconnect-scientific-cultures.html)
2024-04-23T04:01:52Z	**Tunable quantum anomalous Hall effects in van der Waals heterostructures**
The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has unique advantages in topotronic applications, but realizing the QAHE with tunable magnetic and topological properties for building functional devices is still a key scientific challenge. Through first-principles calculations, researchers have predicted a candidate material that meets these requirements. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-tunable-quantum-anomalous-hall-effects.html)
2024-04-23T08:48:03Z	**Manipulating the geometry of the 'electron universe' in magnets**
Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have developed fundamental experiments and theories to manipulate the geometry of the "electron universe," which describes the structure of electronic quantum states in a manner mathematically similar to the actual universe, within a magnetic material under ambient conditions. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-geometry-electron-universe-magnets.html)
2024-04-23T08:46:05Z	**Supercomputer simulation reveals new mechanism for membrane fusion**
An intricate simulation performed by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers sheds new light on how proteins called SNAREs cause biological membranes to fuse. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-supercomputer-simulation-reveals-mechanism-membrane.html)
2024-04-23T12:51:03Z	**Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells**
In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins—essential building blocks of life—to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems, and diagnostic tools. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-artificial-cells.html)
2024-04-23T12:50:01Z	**NASA to overhaul mission returning samples from Mars—here's why it must and will go ahead**
NASA recently announced that it is seeking new ways to complete the return to Earth of rock cores drilled by the Perseverance Rover in the Jezero Crater on Mars. This has led to some anxiety among space scientists, who view the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission as a cornerstone of plans to explore the solar system. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-nasa-overhaul-mission-samples-mars.html)
2024-04-23T17:04:03Z	**Study compares Salmonella rates in backyard, commercial poultry farm samples**
In a comparison of differently sized poultry farms, researchers at North Carolina State University found that rates of Salmonella in fecal and environmental samples were more prevalent on larger commercial farms than on smaller backyard farms. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-salmonella-backyard-commercial-poultry-farm.html)
2024-04-23T17:00:03Z	**Researchers develop forest extent map for Mexico**
To properly protect forests and evaluate the state of natural resources, conservation practices and environmental policies, it is important to have accurate information on an area's forest extent. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-forest-extent-mexico.html)
2024-04-24T03:10:01Z	**Future hurricanes could compromise New England forests' ability to store and sequester carbon**
Nature-based climate solutions can help mitigate climate change, especially in forested regions capable of storing and sequestering vast amounts of carbon. New research published in Global Change Biology indicates that a single hurricane in New England, one of the most heavily forested regions in the United States, can down 4.6–9.4% of the total above-ground forest carbon, an amount much greater  ... ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-future-hurricanes-compromise-england-forests.html)
2024-04-24T07:30:01Z	**Lunar landforms indicate geologically recent seismic activity on the moon**
The moon's steadfast illumination of our night sky has been a source of wonder and inspiration for millennia. Since the first satellite images of its surface were taken in the 1960s, our understanding of Earth's companion through time has developed immeasurably. A complex interplay of cosmic interactions and planetary systems, the moon's surface displays a plethora of landforms evidencing its history. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-lunar-landforms-geologically-seismic-moon.html)
2024-04-24T11:37:03Z	**Giant virus discovered in wastewater treatment plant infects deadly parasite**
The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna, in an international collaboration, have discovered viruses that infect this harmful microbe. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-giant-virus-wastewater-treatment-infects.html)
2024-04-24T15:49:04Z	**Ultrasensitive photonic crystal detects single particles down to 50 nanometers**
Using an ultrasensitive photonic crystal, TU/e researchers were able to detect single particles down to 50 nanometers in diameter. The new research has just been published in the journal Optica. ⌘ [Read more](https://phys.org/news/2024-04-ultrasensitive-photonic-crystal-particles-nanometers.html)