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. The wooly mammoth from Taimering (Bavaria, Germany), discovered in 2020, was buried in a former Ice Age pond after its death. Pollen findings and radiocarbon dating confirm that the mammoth lived and died during the harsh conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum. Cut marks on several ribs suggest that Paleolithic humans tampered with the carcass. An interdisciplinary research team initiated by SNSB paleontologist Gertrud Rößner and FAU geographer Christoph Mayr is now presenting the results of its scientific investigations in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, published in two parts. https://phys.org/news/2026-06-taimering-mammoth-butchered-hunters.html Paleontology & Fossils Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:02 EDT news699695882 This week, researchers identified signaling pathways underpinning drug resistance in pancreatic cancer, a normally lethal diagnosis. A physicist proposed that conscious states in the brain may arise from the brain's ability to resonate with the quantum vacuum that permeates space. And in a ranking of species monogamy, humans came in between meerkats and beavers. https://phys.org/news/2025-12-saturday-citations-nice-people-happier.html Other Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:00:01 EST news684763110 In the Bronze Age, the so-called Nuraghe culture flourished in Sardinia. A culture that is known for tower-like stone constructions, nuraghers, and for the small bronze figures, bronzetti, which often depict warriors, gods and animals. These figures have fascinated scientists, but their exact metallic origins have been unknown. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-metals-reveal-bronze-age-previously.html Archaeology Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:20:01 EDT news676804638 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet—comparable to a grain of sand—and containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine-1.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:11 EDT news674983864 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet—comparable to a grain of sand—and containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:07 EDT news674983861 A new study by researchers at the University of Mannheim demonstrates how cultures evaluate attractiveness differently and the influence this evaluation can have on social success. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-beauty-advantage.html Social Sciences Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:25:04 EDT news668345102 A multidisciplinary research team led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has combined ancient DNA data with a clear archaeological, anthropological and historical context to reconstruct the social dynamics of Avar-period steppe descent populations that settled in Europe's Carpathian Basin in the 6th century. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-scientists-ancient-dna-historical-context.html Archaeology Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:00:01 EDT news633167100 Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and in the Bronze Age it was used to make a range of goods including swords, helmets, bracelets, plates and pitchers. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-refutes-involving-bronze-age-tin.html Archaeology Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:18:03 EDT news614852281 The gold in objects from Troy, Poliochni (a settlement on the island of Lemnos which lies roughly 60 kilometers away from Troy), and Ur in Mesopotamia have the same geographic origin and were traded over great distances. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-gold-troy-poliochni-ur.html Archaeology Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:56:55 EST news589039012 New research presents over 300 new analyses of bronze objects, raising the total number to 550 in 'the archaeological fingerprint project.' This is roughly two thirds of the entire metal inventory of the early Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia. For the first time, it was possible to map the trade networks for metals and to identify changes in the supply routes, coinciding with other socio-economic changes detectable in the rich metal-dependent societies of Bronze Age southern Scandinavia. https://phys.org/news/2021-06-bronze-age-scandinavia-networks-copper.html Archaeology Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:19:38 EDT news543151174 In a story of lost and stolen books and scrupulous detective work across continents, a Caltech historian and his former student have unearthed previously uncounted copies of Isaac Newton's groundbreaking science book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known more colloquially as the Principia. The new census more than doubles the number of known copies of the famous first edition, published in 1687. The last census of this kind, published in 1953, had identified 187 copies, while the new Caltech survey finds 386 copies. Up to 200 additional copies, according to the study authors, likely still exist undocumented in public and private collections. https://phys.org/news/2020-11-hundreds-newton-principia-census.html Other Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:56:58 EST news524246201 Black holes are at the center of almost all galaxies that have been studied so far. They have an unimaginably large mass and therefore attract matter, gas and even light. But they can also emit matter in the form of plasma jets—a kind of plasma beam that is ejected from the center of the galaxy with tremendous energy. A plasma jet can extend several hundred thousand light years far into space. https://phys.org/news/2020-08-black-hole-powers-jet-magnetic.html Astronomy Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:08:11 EDT news517230487 A team from the Research Group in Mediterranean Social Archaeology (ASOME) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has led an international study to reconstruct the diet of the El Argar society of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula (2220-1550 BCE) and distinguish the subsistence strategies of the populations of this archaeological complex. Published in PLOS ONE, the study was conducted with biological material extracted from the excavation site of La Bastida in Totana, Murcia, one of the oldest cities in Europe, and from another smaller site known as Gatas, located in Turre, Almeria. https://phys.org/news/2020-03-intensive-crops-livestock-spurred-la.html Archaeology Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:00:08 EDT news503132937 Perception is reality, the adage goes, and it may even be true when it comes to conveying the findings of medical and life science research. https://phys.org/news/2019-12-male-scientists-language-unique.html Social Sciences Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:30:02 EST news495700137 There's at least one person in the world for whom smoking has a beneficial effect, and it took an international collaboration of scientists led by a Rice University professor to figure out why. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-case-scientists-mechanics-rare-hemoglobin.html Biochemistry Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:00:48 EST news406479636 A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers for the seventh straight year—and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of U.S. technology. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-chinese-supercomputer-tops-world-fastest.html Hardware Mon, 20 Jun 2016 04:42:53 EDT news385616498 The broken windows theory posits that minor misdemeanors, like littering or graffiti spraying, stimulate more serious anti-social behavior. LMU sociologists now argue that the idea is flawed and does not justify the adoption of hardline policies. https://phys.org/news/2015-02-broken-windows-thesis-leak.html Social Sciences Fri, 27 Feb 2015 08:51:59 EST news344249508 A Cray supercomputer at the US government's Oak Ridge National Laboratory was named Monday the world's fastest, overtaking an IBM supercomputer at another American research center. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-cray-supercomputer-world-fastest.html Hardware Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:32:20 EST news271949526 An IBM supercomputer developed for US government nuclear simulations and to study climate change and the human genome has been recognized as the world's fastest. https://phys.org/news/2012-06-regains-fastest-supercomputer.html Hardware Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:41:40 EDT news259234888 For IBM, winning its single-biggest contract in China is something to be immensely proud of, and they are understandably eager to publicize it widely, but rival Hewlett Packard is disputing Big Blue's claim that it seized the deal from HP. https://phys.org/news/2005-11-ibm-china-win-irks-hp.html Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:31:04 EST news8278