https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Elon Musk's SpaceX was set to begin trading on the Nasdaq exchange Friday, with the biggest initial public offering in history expected to make the polarizing entrepreneur the world's first trillionaire. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-spacex-ipo-liftoff-debut.html Space Exploration Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:10:01 EDT news700455479 Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada's AI for All strategy on June 4, committing more than $2 billion in new spending and targeting $200 billion in additional GDP growth and 250,000 new jobs by 2031. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-canada-ai-strategy-ambitious-growth.html Economics & Business Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:00:01 EDT news700323122 Every internet search, streamed video and AI-generated response depends on a data center somewhere. Driven by rapid growth in artificial intelligence, cloud computing and cryptocurrency, data centers have become the backbone of the modern digital economy. But though their key role is in enabling virtual and remote experiences, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ways-centers-endanger-local-communities.html Environment Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:20:06 EDT news700144621 Luxury brands have increasingly embraced internet memes in their social media advertising campaigns. For example, Gucci's #TFWGucci campaign demonstrated how luxury brands can incorporate memes into their digital communication strategies to capture consumers' attention. Memes—digital content that spreads rapidly through sharing, imitation and adaptation across online communities—have become a popular way for brands to engage consumers. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-luxury-brands-memes-clicks.html Social Sciences Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:20:06 EDT news700132170 Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing population. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-ai-agriculture-smallholder-farmers-left.html Biotechnology Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:40:01 EDT news699722821 The science academies of G7 member countries have identified international space governance as a pressing issue for the G7 Leaders' Summit, to be held from June 15–17 in Evian, France. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-corporations-stars-international-collaboration-space.html Space Exploration Sat, 23 May 2026 12:30:01 EDT news698499920 Interest in the manosphere has recently surged yet again, with the recent Louis Theroux documentary catapulting the term "manosphere" back to the forefront of our cultural psyche. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-tiktok-history-men-taught-manosphere.html Social Sciences Thu, 21 May 2026 19:40:01 EDT news698582836 Elon Musk announced plans Wednesday for one of the biggest stock sales ever by taking public a space company that is currently losing billions of dollars a year. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-spacex-reveals-biggest.html Space Exploration Thu, 21 May 2026 04:50:01 EDT news698556038 A major French policy designed to make hotel prices more competitive online may not have worked as intended, but it did unlock cheaper deals for customers booking directly with hotels. The new study of European hotel markets finds that banning "price parity clauses"—rules which stop hotels from offering lower prices outside major booking platforms—had little impact on publicly advertised online prices. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-site-crackdown-online-hotel-prices.html Economics & Business Tue, 19 May 2026 09:20:05 EDT news698396881 Kenyan ant expert Dino Martins gushes over the red and black insects that have become the center of an international smuggling trade. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-kenya-poaching-problem-smuggling-giant.html Ecology Mon, 18 May 2026 04:51:32 EDT news698298661 The potent pollution from so-called megaconstellation satellite systems launched en masse into space since 2019 will account for nearly half (42%) of the total climate impact of space sector pollution by the end of the decade, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-satellite-pollution-rapidly-accumulating-upper.html Environment Thu, 14 May 2026 09:00:03 EDT news697908902 Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China have successfully deployed a multi-mode quantum relay network, achieving matter–matter entanglement over 14.5 kilometers, according to media reports. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-quantum-protocol-distance-barriers-fiber.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 12 May 2026 11:00:04 EDT news697797345 Solar emissions exert 'drag' on space junk orbiting Earth. From historical measurements across a period of 36 years, researchers have now shown that space junk begins to fall down much faster once the sun's activity across the solar cycle reaches approximately 67% of its peak. This result, which is expected to hold for station-keeping satellites too, is important for better planning of space missions that avoid collisions. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-space-junk-falls-earth-faster.html Space Exploration Wed, 06 May 2026 01:00:01 EDT news696781021 Imagine that a government builds a five-star airport without any roads leading to it. The terminal is immaculate, the runway is regulation length—but there is simply no way to get there. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-countries-ai-laws.html Political science Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:05 EDT news696680701 An origami-inspired reflectarray antenna developed by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo enables CubeSats to achieve high antenna gain while fitting within the tight size constraints of small satellites. Weighing just 64 grams, it folds compactly inside a 3U CubeSat for launch and expands in space. Such designs could support higher data-rate communications, expanding the capabilities of future CubeSat missions, including deep-space and lunar exploration. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-tiny-satellites-big-limits-foldable.html Space Exploration Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:40:06 EDT news696081783 Most clocks, from wristwatches to the systems that run GPS and the internet, work by tracking regular, repeating motions. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-atomic-nuclei-scientists-precisely.html Quantum Physics Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:20:01 EDT news695388241 The Artemis II mission, scheduled to launch on Wednesday, will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey from Earth around the moon—the first time humans will travel that far into space since 1972. While the crew will not land on the moon, the mission marks a major step toward returning people to the lunar surface. https://phys.org/news/2026-04-artemis-ii-mission-big.html Space Exploration Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:00:12 EDT news694258485 Eight CubeSats and one payload supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) have reached orbit, where they will demonstrate various applications aimed at improving how data is sent around and processed. Thanks to these demonstrations, practical and—sometimes—even life-saving data enabled from space will move more efficiently and reach the right actors on time in the future. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-missions-optimized-space.html Space Exploration Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:50:01 EDT news694175092 Materials scientist Dr. Yige Sun, from the Department of Materials and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, and the Faraday Institution, argues that as space becomes critical infrastructure for the global digital economy, its long-term viability depends on urgently transitioning from a linear to a circular model of development. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-frontier-feedback-loop-expert-space.html Space Exploration Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:30:08 EDT news693570459 The DNA foundation model Evo 2 has been published in the journal Nature. Trained on the DNA of over 100,000 species across the entire tree of life, Evo 2 can identify patterns in gene sequences across disparate organisms that experimental researchers would need years to uncover. The machine learning model can accurately identify disease-causing mutations in human genes and is capable of designing new genomes that are as long as the genomes of simple bacteria. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-evo-ai-genetic-code-domains.html Biotechnology Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:00:01 EST news691755181 Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of Earth's surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that crisscross the world's seas could soon change this. As well as transmitting data around the planet, they can also monitor the tectonic movements that cause earthquakes and tsunamis. https://phys.org/news/2026-02-million-km-undersea-internet-cables.html Earth Sciences Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:20:02 EST news690546568 The gap between rich and poor has reached historic highs. According to the World Inequality Report 2026, released in recent weeks, the richest 10% of the global population now receive 53% of all income and own a staggering 75% of all wealth. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-inequality-doesnt-civil-unrest-internet.html Economics & Business Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:40:01 EST news685359549 Personal pronouns like "I" and "you" are among the most common words in the English language—but that doesn't mean they occur equally often in all kinds of texts. "If you think about it, you wouldn't really expect to find any personal pronouns in cooking recipes," says Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer, professor of English and digital linguistics at Chemnitz University of Technology. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-cooking-recipes-personal-years.html Social Sciences Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:20:05 EDT news678617831 Imagine the benefits if the entire internet got a game-changing upgrade to speed and security. This is the promise of the quantum internet—an advanced system that uses single photons to operate. Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new photonic router that can direct single and quantum entangled photons with unprecedented levels of efficiency. This advancement in quantum optics brings us closer to quantum networks and next-generation photonic quantum technologies becoming an everyday reality. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-routing-photonic-entanglement-quantum-internet.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 24 Sep 2025 08:50:03 EDT news677922601 Thailand's pygmy hippo Moo Deng marked her first birthday on Thursday, drawing crowds of diehard fans even as she left behind the cute animal infancy that earned her worldwide internet fame. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-hippo-birthday-thai-internet-sensation.html Plants & Animals Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:40:35 EDT news671341229 In February 2025, the New Republic reported there were a growing number of Americans who wanted to leave the country following the election of Donald Trump. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-american-mass-exodus-canada-trump.html Political science Thu, 29 May 2025 15:20:04 EDT news667750802 In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty's elite rulers. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-years-chinese-history-reveals-today.html Economics & Business Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:40:03 EDT news664719972 A novel paper led by Dr. Ulrich Brose of the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and the Friedrich Schiller University Jena is widening the understanding of how species interact within ecosystems via the so-called "Internet of Nature." https://phys.org/news/2025-04-internet-nature-explore-web-life.html Plants & Animals Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:29:38 EDT news663586174 Digital inequality—challenges in accessing or maintaining an internet connection and functional digital devices—affected on-time graduation for U.S. college students over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study co-authored by Rutgers researchers. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-access-reliable-internet-digital-devices.html Education Fri, 04 Apr 2025 08:57:04 EDT news662975822 Have you recently opened YouTube or TikTok and immediately gone looking for cat videos? If your answer is "yes," then you're not alone: the global consumption of cat-related media online is simply massive. In 2015, there were over 2 million cat videos on YouTube alone, with an average of 12,000 views each—a higher average than any other category of YouTube content. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-cat-videos-wild-caracals-internet.html Ecology Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:34:33 EST news653142866