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. Fabian Coscia and his team have published in Nature Methods an open-source workflow that makes Deep Visual Proteomics easier to use, adapt and scale. OpenDVP enables scientists to spatially map thousands of proteins inside cells and their cellular environments, while preserving their tissue context. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-source-workflow-spatial-proteomics-easier.html Biotechnology Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:20:10 EDT news711969422 Arriving on the Caribbean island of Dominica for the first time "feels a little bit like stepping into Jurassic Park," said Giovanni Petri, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-whale-ai-ten-click-sequences.html Ecology Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:20:19 EDT news711960868 A media "glass ceiling" exists in news stories on artificial intelligence (AI) published in Spanish media in recent years: men are the main subjects in 41% of news reports, compared to just 5% featuring women. This is one of the findings of the report "InfoIA: Analysis of Information on Artificial Intelligence Published in Digital Media," conducted by the University Institute of Gender Studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). https://phys.org/news/2026-10-highlights-gender-gap-ai-media.html Social Sciences Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:20:11 EDT news711948930 Artificial intelligence (AI) means high school and college students now have access to a resource that can potentially "do all the work for them." While this can reduce students' immediate stress about submitting assignments, it may negatively impact their long-term learning. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-2.html Education Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:20:31 EDT news711877157 New active ingredients for drugs to treat infections, cancer or other serious diseases are often based on substances originally discovered in microorganisms, plants or other living organisms. Producing or improving such active ingredients in a targeted manner using microorganisms is often challenging because the underlying biological processes are extremely complex. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-functional-enzyme-components-drug.html Biochemistry Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:20:14 EDT news711806642 What causes adversaries to escalate conflicts into costly, prolonged wars even when neither side wants to fight? And in the fog of war, what might help them break that cycle and find a path to peace? https://phys.org/news/2026-10-fog-war-game-based-boundaries.html Social Sciences Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:00:13 EDT news711805381 Imagine planning a vacation across India's Golden Triangle: Delhi, Agra and Jaipur. You could compare dozens of websites, scroll through reviews and ask friends for recommendations. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-vacation.html Economics & Business Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:00:02 EDT news711797118 A team of researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) has developed a new instrument designed to eliminate blind spots between lines of lidar data on Earth's surface. Built with support from NASA's Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), the Concurrent Artificially-intelligent Spectrometry Lidar System (CASALS) could help researchers map the features of Earth's surface in detail. Rather than mechanically steering a laser with moving mirrors, CASALS steers light using wavelength itself, generating a continuous, 3D swath of the ground below. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nasa-casals-instrument-bridges-gaps.html Planetary Sciences Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:20:09 EDT news711795891 The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking "one-in-100-year" disasters communities have usually only seen once. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-reveals-climate-nz-extreme.html Environment Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:25 EDT news711783736 For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples have passed down their traditions and culture through oral storytelling. Now, a Canadian Indigenous community is using a data center to help preserve its heritage. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-nation-community-canada-center-heritage.html Social Sciences Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:49:58 EDT news711776966 Public and private investments must address the financial barriers preventing women from benefiting fully from digital technologies and artificial intelligence as multiple global crises and aid cuts bite. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-women-farmers-benefit-ai.html Agriculture Tue, 20 Oct 2026 22:20:01 EDT news711714260 Advances in weed management technology could reduce reliance on herbicides and manual labor, but a new review from the University of Mississippi and Cornell University indicates those tools also bring steep costs and potential challenges. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-weed.html Biotechnology Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:00:07 EDT news711718874 With the U.S. midterms approaching, about one in five voters has asked AI chatbots about elections and politics, a recent survey found. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-worldwide-ai-politics.html Political science Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:00:01 EDT news711716896 The polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air encircling the North Pole, is sometimes disrupted by sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events, unleashing waves of frigid air that penetrate farther south than usual. Temperatures across North America and Europe drop precipitously when this happens, but such events remain hard to predict, meaning we can't easily warn people when SSW is imminent. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-machine-reveals-potential-polar-vortex.html Earth Sciences Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:40:16 EDT news711721201 Announcements over recent months that artificial intelligence models have cracked previously unsolvable problems are shaking top-level mathematicians to the core, and they are now asking themselves: Where do we come in? https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-math-unsolvable.html Mathematics Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:10:02 EDT news711723447 A research team led by distinguished professor Giuseppe Pezzotti at the Biomedical Engineering Center, Kansai Medical University (Japan), has demonstrated that differences in the molecular structures of viral RNA can be captured as "Raman barcodes," enabling the identification of 20 SARS-CoV-2 variants and subvariants. These findings are expected to contribute to the development of a rapid method for identifying newly emerging viral variants. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-raman-barcodes-distinguish-sars-cov.html Biotechnology Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:40:27 EDT news711713502 Chapman University has released the results of its 12th annual Chapman University Survey of American Fears, revealing that concerns about artificial intelligence have entered the nation's top 10 fears for the first time. The survey found that more than half of Americans fear AI could harm the political process, while nearly half worry it will hurt the economy. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-anxiety-americans.html Social Sciences Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:00:01 EDT news711695296 After a cyclospora outbreak and recalls of imported beef over the summer, a recent Gallup poll found that Americans' confidence in food safety has fallen to a record low, and consumers may be wondering how foodborne illness outbreaks can be tracked and mitigated. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-qa-technology-track-foodborne-pathogens.html Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:40:01 EDT news711626869 One-quarter of the world's data centers are located in areas where water demand exceeds supply for at least one month each year, according to a new global analysis. Researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology mapped data center locations against available water resources and found that, under a future climate scenario, the proportion of facilities in water-stressed areas could rise to one-third. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-centers-resources-limited.html Environment Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:00:01 EDT news711628081 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently been discussing "artificial general intelligence" that matches or surpasses human capabilities. This is from the same person who has said children born today (including his own) will "never be more intelligent than AI, from a 'raw IQ'" (intelligence quotient) perspective. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ugly-history-iq-ai.html Education Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:40:13 EDT news711613754 Historians have created a first-of-its-kind online interactive map, using data from hundreds of thousands of pages of centuries-old port records to chart Britain's growth into a dominant global trading nation. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-centuries-reveal-britain-vast.html Archaeology Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:40:08 EDT news711622323 In principle, artificial intelligence could make finding the right material for an application as simple as ordering dinner: Scientists would tell a large language model what they want, and it would serve them the perfect material for the job. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-ai-crystal-view-materials-world.html Analytical Chemistry Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:20:01 EDT news711622141 Viral infections can be difficult to treat because viruses evolve rapidly, allowing them to develop resistance to drugs designed to attack viral proteins directly. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-artificial-intelligence-potential-antiviral-compounds.html Biotechnology Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:00:06 EDT news711613031 When describing someone running, most people would say exactly that: "The person is running." They probably wouldn't say the person is moving, even though both descriptions are technically correct. But what if that person were the only one moving in a room full of people standing still? https://phys.org/news/2026-10-context-key-people-language.html Social Sciences Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:40:14 EDT news711612314 The world's top climate scientists will reconvene at the earliest opportunity, the panel's chair said on Monday, after member states failed to agree when to release its crucial new findings on global heating. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-climate-panel-swift-deadlock-key.html Environment Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:40:01 EDT news711620947 The Cambrian explosion was a major diversification of animal life that unfolded early in the Cambrian period, which began around 538.8 million years ago. During this interval, marine animals became much more varied, building the foundations for current marine ecosystems. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-algae-fossils-cambrian-explosion-hint.html Cell & Microbiology Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:30:01 EDT news711620351 A research team led by senior researcher Minyoung Lee and principal researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), has developed a label-free surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis technology that rapidly detects extremely low concentrations of viable bacteria by directly growing plasmonic metal nanostructures on and around bacterial cells. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-plasmonic-coating-bacterial-surfaces-paves.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 19 Oct 2026 09:40:01 EDT news711619741 A bumblebee-like insect that was last seen in France 150 years ago was spotted again in the Paris region in 2025. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-painstaking-task-world-species.html Plants & Animals Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:20:02 EDT news711601091 Imagine a company that sells you equipment, invests money in your business and then rents back what you build with it. It's your supplier, your investor and your customer all at once. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-paying-circular-money-machine-ai.html Economics & Business Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:30:01 EDT news711200439 Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of scientific benefits are undermining public confidence in science, experts warn, following the release of a global trust survey. https://phys.org/news/2026-10-global-survey-links-financial-hardship.html Social Sciences Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:01 EDT news711200405