The mountain jewelflower inhabits a wide swath of California and Oregon, from summer-scorched foothills to high mountains where snow falls during winter. But it is already suffering from climate change, with plants in the mountains struggling to survive both summers and winter...
The big picture: A native California wildflower isn't keeping up with... — could lead to real-world breakthroughs.
Sustained supershear earthquake ruptures produce distinct ground-motion characteristics compared with subshear earthquakes, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, with potential implications for current building codes and ground...
Phys.org reports: Simulations show distinct ground motion signatures of supershear... — this opens new research frontiers.
Scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a new way to help gravitational-wave observatories see farther into the universe by solving one of their biggest challenges: tiny heat-induced distortions in the massive mirrors at the heart of the detectors.
Phys.org reports: New technique enables LIGO to peer farther into... — this opens new research frontiers.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government wants workers to ditch the suit and tie for t-shirts, trainers - and shorts.
The big picture: Tokyo urges men to wear shorts to work,... — could lead to real-world breakthroughs.
By examining 200 years of demographic data from 237 countries and territories, Kenji Itao, of the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan, discovered that universal mathematical laws describe how fertility declines as societies develop, providing a new framework for understand...
Bottom line from Phys.org: this opens new research frontiers.
A black hole may be stirring a "pot" of gas containing a neighboring galaxy in the early universe, according to a new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics that used observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxy slowly being "cooked" is named MQN01 J0041...
The big picture: Black hole jet may be stirring gas cloud... — could lead to real-world breakthroughs.
Some 400 years ago, a member of the Indigenous Potano-Timucua tribe scooped up some clay and carefully molded it into a modest vessel, small enough to rest in the palm of their hand. You can imagine their fingers pressing a tight crease around the pot's simple rim and smoothin...
Why it matters: Students unearth rare, centuries-old pot at Florida Spanish... challenges existing scientific assumptions.
New video evidence has revealed whale sharks, the largest fish in the sea, are serial snackers, feeding on large amounts of small prey at all ocean depths, according to research led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Murdoch University.
Bottom line from Phys.org: this challenges existing scientific assumptions.
An international research team led by the Medical University of Vienna has investigated a new peptide derived from cone snail venom that significantly reduced inflammation-induced pain in an animal model. Crucially, its effect takes hold immediately after subcutaneous injectio...
Why it matters: Cone snail venom peptide could enable injectable non-opioid... could lead to real-world breakthroughs.
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from the satellite's L-band and S-band radars on an ongoing basi...
Bottom line from Phys.org: this could lead to real-world breakthroughs.
Deep learning approaches have transformed how scientists predict the activity and function of DNA sequences in the genome. A new AI tool called Corgi (Context-aware Regulatory Genomics Inference), developed by Martin Vingron's bioinformatics group at the Max Planck Institute f...
The big picture: AI tool predicts how DNA sequences switch on... — adds a piece to a much larger puzzle.
A research team consisting of researcher Somi Joo, Professor Changjun Lee and Professor Daeho Lee from the Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) Department of Artificial Intelligence Convergence have published a study comprehensively analyzing the opportunities and risks of using gen...
The big picture: Uncovering multidimensional effects of generative AI on learning — advances our understanding of the world.
A team of international scientists led by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller, together with Ph.D. students David Nora, Ioannis Oikonomou and Dominik Rogall from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has uncovered new insights into the strategic decision-making and survival techniques of ...
Phys.org reports: Ancient stone tools reveal complex nomadic lifestyles in... — this challenges existing scientific assumptions.
The critically endangered sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus) appears to have found a refuge off the northern coast of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, for mating and reproduction. This was revealed in a study conducted by scientists and divers in the Alcatrazes Archipelago, a...
Why it matters: São Paulo archipelago serves as a breeding ground... adds a piece to a much larger puzzle.
Penn Engineers have developed PeptiVerse, an AI-powered platform that predicts key chemical and biological properties of peptides, strings of amino acids whose medical potential has been demonstrated by the success of GLP-1 drugs, widely used weight-loss treatments.
Phys.org reports: Open-source AI predicts key peptide traits before costly... — this opens new research frontiers.
