Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Out-of-home care for children in Finland has doubled

Out-of-home care for children in Finland has doubled
Out-of-home care is the last resort in child welfare intervention, where a child is removed from their home and placed in alternative care to protect their well-being. The reasons for these placements are complex but may involve abuse, neglect, or mental health and behavioral problems by either the parents or the children.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-home-children-finland.html

How do we change the way we eat?

How do we change the way we eat?
On July 16, 1976, as America celebrated its bicentennial year, a dozen farmers gathered at a parking lot at East 59th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan to start a different sort of revolution. They lined up their trucks and unloaded wooden bushels of produce: tomatoes, radishes, carrots, rainbow chard. This was the city's first Greenmarket, which urban planner Barry Benepe had conceived as a way to bring fresh food to New Yorkers while allowing regional farmers to sell directly to customers, eliminating middlemen and saving small farms.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-how-do-we-change-the.html

Monday, 25 August 2025

Sunday, 24 August 2025

Colorado's subalpine wetlands may be producing a toxic form of mercury

Colorado's subalpine wetlands may be producing a toxic form of mercury
The wetlands found across the Rocky Mountains of Colorado just below tree line are magical places. Dripping with mosses and deep green sedges, these open expanses flanked by evergreens are a breathtaking sight for passing hikers. Moose graze there, and elk gather during their mating season.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-colorado-subalpine-wetlands-toxic-mercury.html

Friday, 22 August 2025

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines

A global wildfire paradox: Human impacts worsen even as total burned area declines
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have spotted a contradiction in worldwide wildfire trends: Despite a 26% decline in total burned area from 2002 to 2021, the number of people exposed to wildfires has surged by nearly 40%.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-global-wildfire-paradox-human-impacts.html

Thursday, 21 August 2025

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

Vapor-based method controls crystallinity of pore walls in nanospaces

Vapor-based method controls crystallinity of pore walls in nanospaces
Metal oxide materials with nanoscale pores have been applied and studied in a wide range of fields, including as catalysts, adsorption and separation materials, and energy materials. Among them, single-crystalline nanoporous metal oxides—with interconnected nanopores in a single crystal—are especially lucrative. They have recently attracted attention as unique materials that combine the desirable properties of nanoporous materials, such as high specific surface area and large pore volume, with those of single crystals.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-vapor-based-method-crystallinity-pore.html

Human influence reduces natural land carbon stocks by 24%, study finds

Human influence reduces natural land carbon stocks by 24%, study finds
Human activities, such as deforestation and the expansion of agricultural areas, have a massive impact on the natural state of ecosystems. As a result, large amounts of carbon are released into the atmosphere, contributing substantially to anthropogenic climate change.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-human-natural-carbon-stocks.html

Monday, 18 August 2025

Sunday, 17 August 2025

Saturday, 16 August 2025

Analysis calls for community-led approaches in social science research

Analysis calls for community-led approaches in social science research
Much previous work in the social sciences has involved researchers—often but not always from the Global North—collecting data from rural communities in the Global South on a wide range of topics from public health to education, agriculture and climate change. Such 'helicopter' research is not good practice as it often involves an asymmetry of power and knowledge that invariably disadvantages local communities. So how can research be made more equitable?

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-analysis-community-approaches-social-science.html

Friday, 15 August 2025

Proposed policies would reward farmers for climate-smart biofuel crop practices

Proposed policies would reward farmers for climate-smart biofuel crop practices
A team of agricultural economists, environmental scientists and policy experts envisions a path toward a carbon-neutral agricultural future by expanding the reach of policies designed to promote low-carbon biofuels for transportation and aviation.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-policies-reward-farmers-climate-smart.html

Thursday, 14 August 2025

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

Northern losses and southern gains: Climate change reshapes moth communities across Finland

Northern losses and southern gains: Climate change reshapes moth communities across Finland
A new study led by the University of Helsinki examined how climate change is altering moth communities across Finland. The researchers wanted to understand whether communities are undergoing thermophilization—a shift towards species that prefer warmer conditions—as the climate warms.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-northern-losses-southern-gains-climate.html

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Monday, 11 August 2025

Robot Drummer: Humanoid Robot Learns to Play Drums with Human-Like Precision

Robot Drummer: Humanoid Robot Learns to Play Drums with Human-Like Precision
A breakthrough in creative robotics, Robot Drummer combines AI and humanoid design to perform complex drumming patterns with precision and flair. The system could inspire future innovations in robotic...

source https://www.gadgets360.com/science/news/robot-drummer-humanoid-robot-learns-to-play-drums-with-human-like-precision-and-creativity-9054295

Sunday, 10 August 2025

Bhubaneswar To Host India's First World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour Meet

Bhubaneswar To Host India's First World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour Meet
Top Indian track and field athletes from the country will lock horns with international stars at the Indian Open 2025 World Athletics Bronze Level Continental Tour meet.

source https://sports.ndtv.com/athletics/bhubaneswar-to-host-indias-first-world-athletics-bronze-level-continental-tour-meet-9054011

It's challenging to predict extreme thunderstorms—improving this will help reduce their deadly and costly impacts

It's challenging to predict extreme thunderstorms—improving this will help reduce their deadly and costly impacts
Our ability to predict extreme weather from thunderstorms, like the recent catastrophic flash floods in Texas, is unsettlingly poor, even in the hours leading up to the event. Improvements in understanding, detecting and predicting extreme thunderstorms—and increasing community resilience to them—are badly needed.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-extreme-thunderstorms-deadly-impacts.html

Saturday, 9 August 2025

Syria's Minorities Demand For Constitution That Guarantees Pluralism

Syria's Minorities Demand For Constitution That Guarantees Pluralism
Hundreds of representatives of Syria's various ethnic and religious groups called Friday for the formation of a decentralised state and the drafting of a new constitution that guarantees religious,...

source https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/syrias-minorities-demands-for-constitution-that-guarantees-pluralism-9049208

Hulu app to shut down in 2026 as Disney fully merges platform into Disney+

Hulu app to shut down in 2026 as Disney fully merges platform into Disney+
Starting in 2026, Hulu will be phased out as a standalone app, with a unified Disney+/Hulu platform launching. Disney will also stop reporting subscriber numbers for its streaming services.

source https://www.livemint.com/technology/hulu-app-to-shut-down-in-2026-as-disney-fully-merges-platform-into-disney-11754675571239.html

Landslide risk doesn't always rise after a wildfire, Columbia River Gorge study finds

Landslide risk doesn't always rise after a wildfire, Columbia River Gorge study finds
In the wake of a wildfire, there's often an assumption that burned landscapes will be more susceptible to landslides. But new research from the University of Oregon suggests it's not always that simple.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-landslide-doesnt-wildfire-columbia-river.html

Friday, 8 August 2025

Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms

Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms
Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's like observing a dance without being able to see simultaneously exactly where someone is dancing and how fast they're moving—you always must choose to focus on one.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-visualization-quantum-motion-complex-molecule.html

Thursday, 7 August 2025

Cockatoos perform 30 distinct dance moves and may combine them in unique ways

Cockatoos perform 30 distinct dance moves and may combine them in unique ways
Captive cockatoos have at least 30 different dance moves in their repertoire, including headbanging and body rolls, according to a study by Natasha Lubke at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and colleagues, published August 6, 2025 in the journal PLOS One. The moves, of which 17 are newly identified, may be performed with or without music.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-cockatoos-distinct-combine-unique-ways.html

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

"Everything Is Over": Uttarakhand Floods Leave Behind Trail Of Destruction

"Everything Is Over": Uttarakhand Floods Leave Behind Trail Of Destruction
"Everything is over" -- a victim is heard saying in one of several disturbing videos which surfaced online after a cloudburst led to flash floods on Tuesday in Himalayan village of Dharali in this...

source https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/everything-is-over-uttarakhand-flash-floods-leave-behind-trail-of-destruction-9026516

Study reveals wild chimpanzees learn how to communicate from relatives on mom's side, not dad's

Study reveals wild chimpanzees learn how to communicate from relatives on mom's side, not dad's
Young chimpanzees learn their communication style from their mother and maternal relatives, but show little similarity to the communication behavior of their father and paternal relatives, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Joseph Mine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and colleagues.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-reveals-wild-chimpanzees-communicate-mom.html

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Platinum-calcium alloy nanoparticles replace platinum, achieving both efficiency and durability in fuel cells

Platinum-calcium alloy nanoparticles replace platinum, achieving both efficiency and durability in fuel cells
A research team led by Professor Jong-sung Yu of the Department of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Kim) has successfully synthesized platinum-calcium alloy nanoparticles using a liquid-phase method. These nanoparticles serve as a catalyst that simultaneously enhances both the efficiency and durability of hydrogen fuel cells, an emerging next-generation eco-friendly energy technology.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-platinum-calcium-alloy-nanoparticles-efficiency.html

Monday, 4 August 2025

Sunday, 3 August 2025

'The great mass of waters killed many thousands': How earthquakes, tsunamis shook ancient Greece and Rome

'The great mass of waters killed many thousands': How earthquakes, tsunamis shook ancient Greece and Rome
The Greek poet Crinagoras of Mytilene (1st century BC–1st century AD) once addressed a little poem to an earthquake. He asked the quake not to destroy his house:

source https://phys.org/news/2025-08-great-mass-thousands-earthquakes-tsunamis.html

Saturday, 2 August 2025

What Are The Top 10 Cities For Students In Asia? Here's The List

What Are The Top 10 Cities For Students In Asia? Here's The List
Top 10 Student Cities In Asia: The latest rankings highlights the growing prominence of Asian cities in global education, driven by academic excellence, job opportunities, and student satisfaction.

source https://www.ndtv.com/education/what-are-the-top-10-cities-for-students-in-asia-heres-the-list-9002886

PlayStation Plus reveals August 2025 line-up: Lies of P, DayZ, and My Hero One’s Justice 2

PlayStation Plus reveals August 2025 line-up: Lies of P, DayZ, and My Hero One’s Justice 2
Sony reveals the PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for August 2025, featuring Lies of P, DayZ, and My Hero One’s Justice 2. The additions celebrate the service's 15th anniversary, offering commemorative avatars based on popular titles. Players must claim July's games before August 5.

source https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/playstation-plus-reveals-august-2025-line-up-lies-of-p-dayz-and-my-hero-one-s-justice-2-11754068853213.html

Friday, 1 August 2025

Thursday, 31 July 2025

Breaking bilateral symmetry: The unusual head of a fish and the puzzle of its genes

Breaking bilateral symmetry: The unusual head of a fish and the puzzle of its genes
Almost all animals have symmetrical bodies. Bilateral symmetry is almost universal in all animals and is only very rarely broken—with exceptions like the five-armed starfish or crab species that have one large and one small claw.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-bilateral-symmetry-unusual-fish-puzzle.html

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Reliance Jio launches JioPC to turn any TV into a cloud-based desktop: Price, specs and more

Reliance Jio launches JioPC to turn any TV into a cloud-based desktop: Price, specs and more
Reliance Jio has launched JioPC, a cloud-based virtual desktop service that turns TVs into personal computers without a separate CPU. It operates via Jio Set-Top Box and offers various monthly plans, enabling basic tasks like web browsing and document editing.

source https://www.livemint.com/technology/gadgets/reliance-jio-launches-jiopc-to-turn-any-tv-into-a-cloud-based-desktop-price-specs-and-more-11753810012615.html

US to overturn foundational climate ruling on Tuesday

US to overturn foundational climate ruling on Tuesday
President Donald Trump's administration will on Tuesday move to reverse a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's ability to curb climate change, Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin announced.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-overturn-foundational-climate-tuesday.html

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

School shootings leave lasting scars on local economies, research shows

School shootings leave lasting scars on local economies, research shows
Fatal school shootings don't just devastate communities emotionally—they also harm their economies, new research shows. People eat out less, avoid public spaces and generally spend less money after a tragedy strikes a local school. This has real economic consequences for neighborhoods that are already reeling.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-school-scars-local-economies.html

Monday, 28 July 2025

Sunday, 27 July 2025

Trump Likens India-Pak Conflict With Cambodia-Thailand Clash, Urges Ceasefire

Trump Likens India-Pak Conflict With Cambodia-Thailand Clash, Urges Ceasefire
US President Donald Trump said Saturday he was talking with the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand in a bid to end their border conflict that has left at least 33 people dead.

source https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-calls-for-ceasefire-compares-india-pakistan-war-with-cambodia-thailand-clash-8956980

Predicting genomic adaptation to climate change in teak, a valuable tropical tree species

Predicting genomic adaptation to climate change in teak, a valuable tropical tree species
Climate change is significantly affecting forest ecosystems through rising temperatures, altered precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme weather events. Tropical forests are particularly vulnerable to these changes, and the forestry sector is expected to experience severe effects due to the long-lived and stationary nature of trees, which require decades from planting to harvest.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-genomic-climate-teak-valuable-tropical.html

Saturday, 26 July 2025

Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone

Scientists create an artificial cell capable of navigating its environment using chemistry alone
Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have created the world's simplest artificial cell capable of chemical navigation, migrating toward specific substances like living cells do.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-artificial-cell-capable-environment.html

Friday, 25 July 2025

Satellite imagery detects illegal fishing activity, shows strict protections work

Satellite imagery detects illegal fishing activity, shows strict protections work
Illegal fishing is a global problem that threatens the health of ocean ecosystems and the economic viability of the fishing industry. Marine protected areas (MPAs)—zones set aside to safeguard marine life—are a key tool for conservation, but monitoring them has been a long-standing challenge.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-satellite-imagery-illegal-fishing-strict.html

Thursday, 24 July 2025

Dinosaur tracks reveal first evidence of mixed-species herding behavior

Dinosaur tracks reveal first evidence of mixed-species herding behavior
Footprints of a multispecies herd of dinosaurs discovered in Canada demonstrate the social interaction between different dinosaur species 76 million years ago, according to findings in a new study published in the journal PLOS One.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-dinosaur-tracks-reveal-evidence-species.html

Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Researchers develop the first assembled genome of a soft tick

Researchers develop the first assembled genome of a soft tick
Researchers with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M AgriLife Research collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, SCINet project and Ag100Pest Initiative to assemble the first genome for a soft tick, Ornithodoros turicata. Their findings were published in G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

source https://phys.org/news/2025-07-genome-soft.html