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Australian science magazine slammed over AI-generated articles

One of Australia's leading science magazines drew fire Thursday after publishing AI-generated articles that experts said were incorrect or oversimplified......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgAug 8th, 2024

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on human society—new science rewrites where and when it first happened

Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery......»»

Category: topSource:  pcmagRelated NewsSep 4th, 2024

Cold-atom simulator demonstrates quantum entanglement between electronic and motional states

Researchers from the Institute for Molecular Science have revealed quantum entanglement between electronic and motional states in their ultrafast quantum simulator, generated by the repulsive force due to the strong interaction between Rydberg atoms......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 3rd, 2024

Early exposure to diverse faces helps babies overcome prejudices later in life, study suggests

Babies who have more diverse social contacts in the first years of their life can get over their prejudices more easily by the age of 17. That's according to research published in npj Science of Learning by neuroscientist Saskia Koch of Radboud Unive.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 3rd, 2024

Large sharks may be hunting each other—and scientists know because of a swallowed tracking tag

Who killed the pregnant porbeagle? In a marine science version of the game Cluedo, researchers from the US have now accused a larger shark, with its deciduous triangular teeth, in the open sea southwest of Bermuda. This scientific whodunnit is publis.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 3rd, 2024

High-sensitivity laser heterodyne radiometer developed for remote sensing of atmospheric water vapor, isotopes

A research team led by Prof. Gao Xiaoming from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a near-infrared laser heterodyne radiometer (LHR), that could greatly improve water vapor measurements in the atmosph.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Transport choices can make a significant difference for climate change, researchers find

Australian transport emissions are still growing. As a result, transport is expected to be our biggest-emitting sector by 2030. So, cutting transport emissions is crucial to Australia's net-zero strategy......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

EPOCH: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga

Are you interested in AI? Do you enjoy science fiction? Do you have an opinion about how AI will impact the human species? Are you enthusiastic about it or worried about it? Or do you think you know the answer? Dave Jilk (my first business partner an.....»»

Category: financeSource:  feldRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Q&A: Scientist discusses the MESSENGER mission to Mercury

Twenty years ago, the MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury. We sat down with project head and former Carnegie Science director Sean Solomon to talk about how the mission came together and the groundbreaking work it enabled......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Q&A: Astronomers await a once-in-80-year stellar explosion

We sat down with Carnegie Science Observatories theoretical astrophysicist Tony Prio to talk about T Coronae Borealis, the stellar explosion that occurs once every 80 years and is due to light up in the coming months......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Is there such a thing as an objectively beautiful building? Here"s the science

Some people assume that there's a type of beauty that everyone can agree on. But did early humans really admire slender bodies the way we do today? After all, fashions come and go—there have been plenty of fads throughout history that we find hard.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsSep 2nd, 2024

Saturday Citations: Corn sweat! Nanoplastics! Plus: Massive objects in your area are dragging spacetime

It's the last day of August, which means that in the Northern Hemisphere, tomorrow will be 50 degrees and cloudy; conditions are expected to be hot and humid south of the equator. In science news this week, we reported on nanoplastic contamination, s.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 31st, 2024

New species of Antarctic dragonfish highlights its threatened ecosystem

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). The species, named in ho.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 31st, 2024

Doughnut-shaped region found inside Earth"s core deepens understanding of planet"s magnetic field

A doughnut-shaped region thousands of kilometers beneath our feet within Earth's liquid core has been discovered by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU), providing new clues about the dynamics of our planet's magnetic field......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 30th, 2024

First fuel spill clean-up targets identified for Macquarie Island

Australian scientists have developed the first environmental standards for fuel contamination in soils, for sub-Antarctic environments......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 30th, 2024

Non-Hermitian skin effect in all dimensions tied to point-gap topology

A study, published in the journal Science Bulletin and led by Dr. Haiping Hu from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOP, CAS), explores the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and non-Bloch bands......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 30th, 2024

Australian sauna helps save frogs from flesh-eating fungus

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell frogs huddle inside a sauna, shielded from Sydney's winter chill......»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 30th, 2024

Illuminating the unavoidable imperfections of nanostructures

A new study by a collaborative team from the University of Twente and the e-Science Center in Amsterdam compares the transmission of light through a utopian model with a real 3D nanostructure. These nanostructures are integral to our daily technologi.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 29th, 2024

Chemists achieve PFAS-free synthesis of fluorinated pharmaceutical and agrochemical compounds

Chemists at the University of Amsterdam have developed a method to furnish a range of molecules with a trifluoromethyl group attached to a sulfur, nitrogen or oxygen atom. Their procedure, which is published in Science, avoids the use of PFAS reagent.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 29th, 2024

Drowning tomatoes for science

I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the tomatoes don't look good. Half of the plants are submerged in bins of water.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 29th, 2024

Researcher: Playing technology games and making science fun helps young kids solve visual problems, grasp ideas better

As I watched my sons, Wavhudi and Rivhavhudi, play games on my phone before bedtime, I was captivated by their enthusiasm and how deeply they were engaged—especially when the games involved math or science. Both boys experienced speech delays and I.....»»

Category: topSource:  physorgRelated NewsAug 29th, 2024