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. On a March afternoon, artificial intelligence detected something resembling smoke on a camera feed from Arizona's Coconino National Forest. Human analysts verified it wasn't a cloud or dust, then alerted the state's forest service and largest electric utility. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-states-wildfire-prone-western-ai.html Environment Mon, 04 May 2026 22:00:02 EDT news697123231 When delegates gathered for COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November 2025, they scrutinized various sectors of the global economy for their contributions to rising greenhouse gases. Agriculture, aviation, steel, cement—all were on the table. One topic not discussed was war. https://phys.org/news/2026-05-wars-destroy-climate-military-emissions.html Environment Mon, 04 May 2026 13:20:01 EDT news697114742 In recent months, Russia has frequently flown drones into NATO territory, where NATO countries typically try to shoot them down. By contrast, when three Russian fighter jets made an incursion into Estonian airspace in September, they were intercepted and no attempt was made to shoot them down—although the incident did make headlines and led to a Russian diplomat being expelled from Estonia. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-drones-contemporary-warfare.html Social Sciences Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:14:04 EST news682254841 China's new Fujian aircraft carrier, unveiled recently by President Xi Jinping with great fanfare, has been hailed by Chinese state media as a major milestone in the country's naval modernization program and a key development in the country's aspirations to become a maritime power. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-china-latest-aircraft-carrier-western.html Political science Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:04:06 EST news682164241 As Moscow's military offensive grinds on at Europe's eastern edge, tensions are skyrocketing on the continent due to repeated, brazen violations of European airspace deliberately orchestrated by Russia. Europe has announced counter-measures, in the form of a "drone wall" to combat this new threat. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-europe-isnt-unmanned-aircraft-threat.html Political science Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:54:04 EDT news679067641 Palm trees in Uruguay are more than just plants, they are icons, much like olive groves for Greeks or cherry blossoms for the Japanese. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-uruguay-powerful-threat-palm-trees.html Ecology Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:46:00 EDT news672551153 A new straightforward way to make an injectable gel capable of releasing multiple drugs at specific speeds improves scalability and access to the technique, according to a University of Michigan study. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-simpler-microgels-programmable-drug.html Biochemistry Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:53:04 EDT news665059981 A NASA sensor recently brought a new approach to battling wildfire, providing real-time data that helped firefighters in the field contain a blaze in Alabama. Called AVIRIS-3, which is short for Airborne Visible Infrared Imaging Spectrometer 3, the instrument detected a 120-acre fire on March 19 that had not yet been reported to officials. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-nasa-airborne-sensor-wildfire-firefighters.html Environment Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:06:04 EDT news664643161 Could we be on the verge of an era where fighter jets take flight without pilots—and are controlled by artificial intelligence (AI)? US R Adm Michael Donnelly recently said that an upcoming combat jet could be the Navy's last one with a pilot in the cockpit. That marks a striking, if not entirely surprising, shift in thinking about the future of aerial warfare. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-ai-fighter-jets-closer-warfare.html Political science Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:13:04 EDT news664114381 "You cannot annex another country." This was the clear message given by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, at a recent press conference with the outgoing and incoming prime ministers of Greenland. It did not appear aimed at Russian president Vladimir Putin, but at Donald Trump, the president of one of her country's closest allies, who has threatened to take over Greenland. https://phys.org/news/2025-04-russia-squabble-arctic-ice-shipping.html Economics & Business Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:54:04 EDT news663238442 In early November 2024, I sat with some friends on the steps of Columbia University's Low Library, feeling the sun beat down on us in our t-shirts and summer dresses. It was a whopping 70°F outside. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-opinion-hurricanes-hoaxes-case-common.html Environment Mon, 03 Mar 2025 14:58:17 EST news660236289 The world is witnessing some of the highest levels of conflict in decades, with more than 110 armed conflicts occurring across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Europe. https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scars-war-conflict-children.html Social Sciences Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:20:01 EDT news648297072 "Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact." This quote, attributed to Isaac Asimov, captures science's intricate relationship with science fiction. And it is hardly a one-way relationship. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-links-science-fiction-astronomy.html Astronomy Mon, 12 Aug 2024 12:05:05 EDT news642683101 Circadian clocks, which drive circadian rhythms, are entwined with many essential systems in living things including plants, fungi, insects, and even humans. Because of this, disruptions to our circadian clocks are linked to higher disease rates in humans, including certain cancers and autoimmune diseases. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-disordered-clock-protein-circadian-rhythms.html Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:41:04 EDT news636723662 The Uchida Laboratory of Innovation Center of NanoMedicine has demonstrated that intradermal administration of mRNA alone (naked mRNA) without protection by nanoparticles induced robust vaccination against SARS CoV-2, a virus causing COVID-19, in mice and primates. mRNA is highly unstable, generally considered to require a tiny capsule, such as lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), for administration. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-mrna-cloaked-lipid-coat-vaccine.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 03 Apr 2024 03:40:26 EDT news631334419 Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday. He was 93. https://phys.org/news/2024-03-astronaut-thomas-stafford-apollo-died.html Space Exploration Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:12:21 EDT news629997134 We know that war is bad for the environment, with toxic chemicals left polluting the soil and water for decades after fighting ceases. Much less obvious are the carbon emissions from armed conflicts and their long-term impacts on the climate. https://phys.org/news/2023-12-carbon-footprint-war.html Environment Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:10:01 EST news621689049 Artificial intelligence, which can already generate texts and mimic human speech, might also help the world prepare for the worsening effects of climate change. https://phys.org/news/2023-11-extreme-weather-power.html Earth Sciences Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:29:05 EST news620569741 El Niño, a weather phenomenon associated with warmer temperatures in the northern U.S. and wetter weather in the South, has arrived. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-el-nino-winter.html Environment Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:37:03 EDT news616423021 Researchers at Flinders University have taken a significant leap in the field of wound care using an innovative approach. By deploying an argon atmospheric plasma jet, they have successfully transformed Spirulina maxima, a blue-green microalgae, into ultrathin bioactive coatings. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-plasma-technology-microalgae-coating-wounds.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:04:03 EDT news616151041 In the quest to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, detecting methane leaks—a potent contributor to global warming—has become increasingly vital. Researchers are harnessing the capabilities of cutting-edge satellite technology to monitor these leaks from space. The paper has been published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-trio-sentinel-satellites-methane-super-emitters.html Earth Sciences Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:18:05 EDT news614423882 A few weeks ago, a team of scientists from Caltech announced that they had successfully transmitted energy from an orbiting satellite down to Earth. It wasn't a lot of energy, but it showed that it was possible. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-scientists-feasibility-power-venus-atmosphere.html Planetary Sciences Mon, 10 Jul 2023 10:09:04 EDT news608202541 COVID-19, invasive species, and the spread of persistent chemicals and plastics provide one form of evidence that we live on a planet with an interconnected biosphere. Dangers from one part of the planet find their way to other parts of the planet. Our oceans and atmosphere, along with ships and jet planes, transport pollutants around the globe. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-opinion-timefacing-reality-climate.html Environment Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:16:34 EDT news605805389 With his moustache caked in icicles and frozen droplets, glaciologist Peter Neff shows his 220,000 TikTok followers a sample of old ice excavated from Antarctica's Allan Hills. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-scientists-tiktok-climate.html Environment Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:18:30 EST news597579504 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been imploring the US, UK and other allies for advanced fighter jets to assist in defending against Russia's unlawful invasion—a move that could come soon and potentially alter the course of the war. This comes after Germany and the US finally agreed to give more than 300 heavy tanks to Ukraine after much debate. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-viewpoint-ukraine-ground-world-weapons.html Political science Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:10:01 EST news596207195 A group of US scientists this week proposed an unorthodox scheme to combat global warming: creating large clouds of moon dust in space to reflect sunlight and cool the Earth. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-clouds-moon-combat-climate.html Earth Sciences Fri, 10 Feb 2023 11:50:01 EST news595251832 The moon is incredibly hot, and also incredibly cold. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-moon-familiar-enemy.html Space Exploration Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:21:04 EST news588266461 NASA scientists, using a tool designed to study how dust affects climate, have identified more than 50 spots around the world emitting major levels of methane, a development that could help combat the potent greenhouse gas. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nasa-tool-super-emitters-methane-space.html Environment Sun, 30 Oct 2022 10:50:01 EDT news585974475 An online search of "how to be a man" leads to nearly 130 million hits and over 12 million videos. Many of these promise hacks or some "big secret" to attain the pinnacle of masculinity. Spend enough time looking through this content and you will inevitably encounter Andrew Tate. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-manosphere-extreme-masculinity-young-men.html Social Sciences Fri, 28 Oct 2022 12:12:03 EDT news586177921 Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm grow slower in the hot, late summer, but this year the grass is at a standstill. https://phys.org/news/2022-08-northeastern-farmers-severe-drought.html Environment Mon, 15 Aug 2022 03:45:03 EDT news579753895