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. Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data, are increasingly contaminating the frequencies astronomers use to study the universe. While much attention has focused on SpaceX's Starlink and other low Earth orbit constellations, what about the satellites much farther away? https://phys.org/news/2025-12-radio-leaks-kilometers.html Space Exploration Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:32:25 EST news685017122 The resignation of the BBC's director general and CEO of news is only the latest symptom of a deeper malaise in the media, a crisis of trust that runs through broadcasters and newspapers alike. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-ten-people-papers-regularly-publish.html Economics & Business Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:31:04 EST news682608662 For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of artificial radio transmissions. Beginning with Project Ozma in 1960, astronomers have used radio antennas to listen for possible transmissions from other star systems or galaxies. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-galaxies-high-radio-emissions-home.html Astronomy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:16:06 EDT news678521761 At U.S. President Donald Trump's request, Congress voted in July 2025 to claw back US$1.1 billion it had previously approved for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That measure, which passed in the House and the Senate by very narrow margins, will cut off all federal tax dollars that would have otherwise flowed to PBS and its affiliated TV stations for the next two fiscal years. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-pbs-accounts-graders-frequently-tv.html Social Sciences Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:46:04 EDT news673526762 Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it's too late the best bet is to find higher ground nearby. The stakes can be high, because a flash flood may give those in its path only minutes or seconds to react. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-major.html Environment Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:10:01 EDT news671374589 Walter Cronkite was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" as he delivered the news on CBS in the 1960s and '70s—a time when fewer news options created a "shared reality" that scholars argue fostered civic engagement, empathy, and shared national identity. The situation looks quite different in today's disparate media landscape. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-cable-news-diverged.html Social Sciences Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:34:05 EDT news668853242 The Tampa Bay region is still recovering from the 2024 hurricane season when it was battered by Hurricanes Milton and Helene. The state of Florida had it even worse in 2004 when it was pummeled by four, back-to-back storms—Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-social-media-shifting-hurricane.html Environment Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:28:04 EDT news668680082 The more than 2 million people who attended Lady Gaga's free concert on Copacabana Beach on May 3, 2025, had no idea of a plot that, if successful, would have turned the event into a tragedy fueled by hate. Just hours before a sea of admirers waved fans in sync with the singer during the event, the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police thwarted a planned attack involving Molotov cocktails and improvised bombs—and targeting the American singer's LGBTQ following. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-lady-gaga-plot-thwarted-veil.html Social Sciences Wed, 14 May 2025 12:16:05 EDT news666443762 Astronomers sifting through data from the Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia, found themselves confronting an unexpected mystery. https://phys.org/news/2025-02-unexpected-tv-method-filtering-unwanted.html Astronomy Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:25:06 EST news658592702 New research reveals gambling messages during the opening weekend of this season's football Premier League have almost trebled since last year, putting fans including children at risk. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-gambling-premier-league-failure-industry.html Economics & Business Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:54:12 EDT news646660446 Senegal's first satellite has been successfully launched into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye said, adding the move marked a major step towards the West African country's "technological sovereignty". https://phys.org/news/2024-08-senegal-satellite-successfully.html Space Exploration Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:25:33 EDT news643184729 The representation of women, ethnic minorities, seniors and sexual minorities on streaming services and mainstream broadcasters falls short. This is shown in research conducted by communication scientist Serena Daalmans of Radboud University. "Progress is happening in too small steps," she says. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-streaming-diversity-representation-minorities.html Social Sciences Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:28:34 EDT news640970911 New research highlights how in the 1930s, the relationship between radio and Finland's most famous composer Jean Sibelius had an important effect on the development of broadcast operations as well as on the status of Sibelius and Western classical art music. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-radio-famous-finnish-jean-sibelius.html Other Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:21:02 EDT news631545661 The conditions for life throughout the universe are so plentiful that it seems reasonable to presume there must be extra-terrestrial civilizations in the galaxy. But if that's true, where are they? The Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) program and others have long sought to find signals from these civilizations, but so far there has been nothing conclusive. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-snoop-extraterrestrial-communications-networks.html Astrobiology Fri, 23 Feb 2024 12:30:02 EST news627913801 A new study has exposed for the first time the vast proliferation of gambling marketing during live TV screenings and social media promotion of National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) games in Canada. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-alarming-extent-gambling-messages-ice.html Social Sciences Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:31:27 EST news624893482 Rightwing populists appear to be enjoying a surge across the western world. For those who don't support these parties, their appeal can be baffling and unsettling. They appear to play on people's fears and offer somewhat trivial answers to difficult issues. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-math-rightwing-populism-easy-confidence.html Social Sciences Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:03:02 EST news624884576 There's one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and more commercials. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-higher-fees-ads-streaming-cashing.html Economics & Business Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:19:05 EST news623942342 Slow motion is a popular style tactic for short videos on social media. Marketing researcher Anika Stuppy of Tilburg University shows that slow motion increases the number of likes and views of videos and stimulates brands' preference, choice and willingness to pay. There are conditions to its use, however. The research helps marketers use slow motion more effectively. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-motion-videos-brand.html Social Sciences Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:07:02 EST news621702421 Kenyan photojournalist Mohamed Amin (1943-1996) rose to fame for documenting the 1984 famine in neighboring Ethiopia with powerful images of the tragedy. He also captured the Ethiopian people's suffering during the brutal reign of Mengistu Haile Mariam. These images, broadcast by the BBC, shocked the global public and had a significant international impact. They mobilized governments, individuals and institutions. This even led to Live Aid—the famous 1985 benefit concert to raise funds for victims of the famine. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-mohamed-amin-famous-kenyan-photojournalistthere.html Social Sciences Tue, 05 Dec 2023 12:39:19 EST news621002353 Have you ever tried to do a brainteaser in which you have to connect the dots to make the outline of a house in one continuous stroke without going back over your lines? Or perhaps you've clicked on Facebook's friend recommendations or played Settlers of Catan. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dots-mathematicians-hot-problem.html Mathematics Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:57:08 EDT news614264224 The latest mission in India's ambitious space program blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the center of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned moon landing. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-moon-sun-india-space-mission.html Space Exploration Sat, 02 Sep 2023 06:03:58 EDT news612853432 A European spacecraft around Mars sent its first livestream from the red planet to Earth on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of its launch, but rain in Spain interfered at times. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-first-of-its-kind-mars-livestream-esa-spacecraft.html Space Exploration Fri, 02 Jun 2023 15:06:07 EDT news604937158 Social media connects people and amplifies different aspects of humanity in good and bad ways. But the effects of social media appear neither universally good nor bad, but rather present an oscillating, dynamic system that can be divisive but also uniting, a new University of California, Davis, study suggests. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-tweets-amplify-disrupt.html Social Sciences Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:06:03 EDT news600620761 The labor force participation rate reached an all-time high for people with disabilities in February, according to today's National Trends in Disability Employment—semi-monthly update (nTIDE), issued by Kessler Foundation and the University of New Hampshire's Institute on Disability (UNH-IOD). https://phys.org/news/2023-03-people-disabilities-engaging-labor.html Economics & Business Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:18:03 EST news597680281 Online sellers are more likely to boost their consumer engagement if they are good-looking, according to a new study undertaken by Charles Darwin University (CDU) in collaboration with institutions in China, Vietnam and France. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-good-consumer-engagement.html Social Sciences Thu, 09 Mar 2023 12:07:02 EST news597586021 As of December 2021, a total of 252 planetary probes have been launched around the world. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-highlighting-advances-planetary-science-years.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:24:05 EST news596816641 A new analysis of NBA basketball broadcasts from 1998 to 2018 reveals a decline in acts of physical violence, such as pushing and elbowing, and a rise in acts of symbolic violence, such as shouting, trash talking, and menacing displays. Assaf Lev from the Department of Sports Therapy at Ono Academic College in Kiryat Ono, Israel, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on May 18. https://phys.org/news/2022-05-nba-violence-decline-physical.html Social Sciences Wed, 18 May 2022 15:19:04 EDT news572105942 Online outdoor science lessons run during the pandemic helped to engage children with the subject and boosted teachers' skills, analysis suggests. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-online-outdoor-science-lessons-pandemic.html Education Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:40:02 EDT news570191353 The German environmental satellite EnMAP was successfully launched into space on Friday evening from Cape Canaveral in Florida on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The "science" team of the EnMAP mission at the German Research Centre for Geosciences Potsdam celebrated the exciting minutes before and during the launch with a diverse and informative event. Lectures, talks and live broadcasts gave an impression of the scientific background, many years of preparations and various current and future fields of application of the mission. Also joining the event was Potsdam's Lord Mayor Mike Schubert, who was equally excited and congratulated on the successful launch. https://phys.org/news/2022-04-german-environmental-satellite-enmap-successfully.html Space Exploration Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:46:54 EDT news568302405 With a federal election expected in May, at a time of great upheaval at home and around the world, the need for trusted media to accurately inform voters' choices and debunk myths will be critical. https://phys.org/news/2022-03-fact-checking-media.html Political science Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:43:59 EST news565613035