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. For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of Missouri's Center for Regenerative Agriculture, that chore is becoming a thing of the past. https://phys.org/news/2026-02-gps-collars-virtual-frontier-livestock.html Biotechnology Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:53:39 EST news689345581 This month, AFP reported from OceanXplorer, a high-tech marine research vessel owned by billionaire-backed nonprofit OceanX, as it studied seamounts off Indonesia. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-oceanxplorer-marine.html Earth Sciences Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:09:30 EST news688615728 Cancer is a leading cause of death in both humans and pets; studies suggest that between one-third and one-half of all dogs will develop cancer during their lifetime. https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sniffing-cancer-dogs-hemangiosarcoma-scent.html Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:50:03 EST news687775311 A high-tech, no-fence solution is teaching cattle to stay home on the range, University of Alberta research has found. https://phys.org/news/2025-11-high-tech-collars-cattle-straying.html Ecology Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:39:04 EST news681644342 Minerals such as cobalt, copper, lithium, tantalum, tin and tungsten, which are all abundant in central Africa, are essential to the comforts of everyday life. Our phones, laptops and electric vehicles would not function without them. https://phys.org/news/2025-10-conflict-free-minerals-waging-modern.html Economics & Business Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:29:04 EDT news680178541 Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve NASA's SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for the upcoming Artemis II mission. This will be the first crewed flight of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, on an approximately 10-day journey around the moon. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-supercomputers-tunnels-nasa-road-artemis.html Space Exploration Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:18:15 EDT news677495889 In the heart of French Polynesia, a narrow channel carves its way through the Fakarava Atoll, connecting a vast lagoon to the open ocean. To the casual eye, it's a beautiful stretch of turquoise water. To a thriving community of grey reef sharks, it's a bustling metropolis, a nursery and a sanctuary all in one. And it might just be the key to solving a perplexing conservation challenge. https://phys.org/news/2025-09-super-habitats-key-shark.html Plants & Animals Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:15:54 EDT news676610151 Poohsticks, the game in which Piglet and Winnie the Pooh throw sticks into the river from one side of a bridge, and then rush over to the other side to see whose stick appears first, is all about current flow. Disappointingly, neither Piglet nor Pooh mention fluid dynamics despite its pivotal importance in determining who won. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-penguins-tides.html Plants & Animals Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:16:20 EDT news674820977 Access to the internet is not a luxury. It's an essential part of life. It shapes how people study, find and do work, access health care, stay connected with community and interact with government services. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-buying-food-indigenous-people-hungry.html Economics & Business Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:36:00 EDT news674127356 The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from medicine to freight logistics. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-qa-companies-quantum-ultracold-neutral.html Quantum Physics Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:10:06 EDT news670521687 Researchers released a analysis in the journal Climate Policy today arguing that the urgent work of removing excess carbon from the atmosphere—known as carbon dioxide removal (CDR)—can't just rely on complex, untested techniques to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) and inject it deep underground or pump it into the ocean. https://phys.org/news/2025-06-trees-tech-carbon-2c-goal.html Environment Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:19:04 EDT news668877541 Employees' early work experiences in an organization can significantly affect their socialization. Much of the research on this topic has documented how certain organization-wide practices succeed or fail in making newcomers so-called good citizens, but little is known about how different early experiences lead to varied socialization outcomes. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-employees-assigned-complex-early-history.html Economics & Business Thu, 22 May 2025 13:20:18 EDT news667138810 When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is investigating how synthetic symbiosis between microorganisms can be created in a targeted manner—and what this reveals about the formation of complex cell structures. https://phys.org/news/2025-05-paramecium-cyanobacterium.html Cell & Microbiology Mon, 12 May 2025 10:45:09 EDT news666265504 Waste generated by human activities has now reached the deepest point in the Mediterranean: the 5,112-meter-deep Calypso Deep in the Ionian Sea. A total of 167 objects—mainly plastics, glass, metal and paper—have been identified at the bottom, of which 148 are marine debris and 19 others are of possible anthropogenic origin. These results represent one of the highest concentrations of marine litter ever detected at great depths. https://phys.org/news/2025-03-human-marine-debris-deepest-mediterranean.html Environment Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:12:04 EDT news660924721 In order to use remote locations to record and assess the behavior of wildlife and environmental conditions, the GAIA Initiative developed an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that reliably and automatically classifies behaviors of white-backed vultures using animal tag data. https://phys.org/news/2024-11-vultures-ai-death-detectors-high.html Ecology Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:58:16 EST news651254291 The latest consumer inflation report indicates that grocery prices have stabilized, yet the perception of high food costs lingers for many. https://phys.org/news/2024-09-high-food-prices-economists-factors.html Economics & Business Wed, 04 Sep 2024 16:20:01 EDT news644684548 New York City emergency management officials have apologized for a hard-to-understand flood warning issued in Spanish by drones flying overhead in some neighborhoods. https://phys.org/news/2024-08-yorkers-skies-impending-danger-storms.html Environment Wed, 07 Aug 2024 04:04:39 EDT news642222275 Scientists have used high-tech underwater robots to take a closer look at the deep offshore reefs on the east coast of Bruny Island in Tasmania and have revealed the seabed biodiversity there for the first time. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-deeper-healthy-offshore-reefs-storm.html Ecology Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:58:52 EDT news641131129 When Hurricane Sally slammed coastal Florida in 2020, US pilot Dean Legidakes was aboard a scientific aircraft flying directly into the storm's core. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-hurricane-hunters-calm-science-eye.html Earth Sciences Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:20:58 EDT news637471248 Within the Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL) project, 14 European institutions from ten countries, spent the last three years elaborating on services and high-tech digital tools, in order to improve the findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability (FAIR-ness) of various types of data about the world's biodiversity. These types of data include peer-reviewed scientific literature, occurrence records, natural history collections, DNA data and more. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-biodiversity-fair-linked-future-proof.html Ecology Tue, 14 May 2024 16:26:04 EDT news634922761 Local community beach cleans could be more effective than high-tech, but often unproven, removal technologies at limiting ocean plastic's harm to the environment and humans, according to a new report. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-community-beach-ups-high-tech.html Environment Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:45:44 EDT news633102342 Thousands of well-wishers gathered Wednesday to bid farewell to the first giant panda born in South Korea, Fu Bao, who left for China in a high-tech non-vibrating vehicle typically used for transporting semi-conductors. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-korean-fans-farewell-internet-famous.html Plants & Animals Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:24:20 EDT news631337056 The time-tested strategy of "divide and conquer" took on a new, high-tech meaning during neutron experiments by scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. They discovered that the problems they faced while attempting to 3D print a one-piece collimator could be solved by instead developing a "Frankenstein design" involving multiple body parts—and some rather obvious scars. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-frankenstein-enables-3d-neutron-collimator.html General Physics Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:52:04 EDT news631205521 Conventional wisdom says that you should never leave money on the table when negotiating. But research in my field suggests this could be exactly the wrong approach. https://phys.org/news/2024-02-bargain-isnt-term-strategy-game.html Mathematics Tue, 06 Feb 2024 12:04:03 EST news626443441 A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and vegetables grown in urban farms and gardens have a carbon footprint that is, on average, six times greater than conventionally grown produce. https://phys.org/news/2024-01-food-urban-agriculture-carbon-footprint.html Agriculture Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:54:02 EST news625139636 Apparently, experience is not always a good thing. In fact, for CEOs of small and medium-sized enterprises, it can eventually prove to be a liability. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-experienced-ceo-regions-vulnerable-corruption.html Economics & Business Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:18:47 EDT news615197918 Counterfeiting is a serious problem affecting a wide range of industries—from medicine to electronics, inflicting enormous economic losses, posing safety concerns and putting health at risk. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-diamond-microparticles-high-anti-counterfeit.html Nanomaterials Fri, 28 Jul 2023 11:25:03 EDT news609762302 Researchers from WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Bonn, and FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines how consumers respond to new products co-developed with universities and the unique marketing opportunities for these products. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-collaborating-university-product-customers.html Social Sciences Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:51:20 EDT news609601877 The number of Queensland women and children experiencing homelessness would now be much higher than the just-released Census data due to the impact of COVID, population movement into the state, lack of supply of affordable housing and cost of living pressures says a QUT academic. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-queensland-women-children-families-brunt.html Social Sciences Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:47:03 EDT news599230021 In order to more fully understand how diseases arise in the brain, scientists must unravel the intricate way neurons relay messages (either chemical or electrical) along a complex web of nerve cells. One way is by using a tool called DREADDs, which stands for Designer Receptors Activated by Designer Drugs. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-neuroscience-tool-gen-versions.html Biotechnology Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:34:58 EST news596198094