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General Physics Jun 14, 2024

Quantum entangled photons react to Earth's spin

A team of researchers led by Philip Walther at the University of Vienna carried out a pioneering experiment where they measured the effect of the rotation of Earth on quantum entangled photons. The work, published in Science ...

Environment Jun 13, 2024

Public more confident connecting increasing heat, wildfires with climate change, study finds

Oregon State University researchers found that U.S. adults are fairly confident in linking wildfires and heat to climate change, but less confident when it comes to other extreme weather events like hurricanes, flooding or ...

Social Sciences Jun 11, 2024

Study finds that for Republican men, environmental support hinges on partisan identity

Who proposes a bill matters more to Republican men than what it says—at least when it comes to the environment, a recent study found.

Other Jun 10, 2024

Think tech killed penmanship? Messy handwriting was a problem centuries before smartphones

Handwriting is dead. At least that's what a New York Times article announced in 2023 in its postmortem investigation "What Killed Penmanship?" But there was no doubt about the culprit: technology.

Evolution Jun 6, 2024

Fish out of water: How killifish embryos adapt their development

The annual killifish lives in regions with extreme drought. A research group at the University of Basel now reports in Science that the early embryogenesis of killifish diverges from that of other species. Unlike other fish, ...

Environment Jun 5, 2024

Scientists question effectiveness of nature-based CO₂ removal using the ocean

Limited understanding of basic ocean processes is hindering progress in marine carbon dioxide removal, with the on-going commercialization of some approaches "premature and misguided."

Archaeology Jun 5, 2024

New study documents the world's largest prehistoric rock art in South America

We weren't the first to lay eyes on the engraving since it was carved into the hillside any number of centuries or millennia ago, not by a long shot. The Venezuelan archaeologist José Maria Cruxent even recorded it in his ...

Archaeology Jun 4, 2024

Enormous rock engravings may be prehistoric territorial markers, suggest archaeologists

Archaeologists have mapped 14 sites featuring the world's largest monumental engravings, proposing that they were created to signal the territorial boundaries of the prehistoric inhabitants.

Economics & Business Jun 3, 2024

New study shows marketing a brand's simplicity can backfire

When companies tout the simplicity of their products, they may unknowingly invite customer dissatisfaction, new University of Oregon research finds.

Earth Sciences Jun 3, 2024

Measuring temperature of seafloor millions of years ago may show if ocean warming increases methane release

Methane is a greenhouse gas about 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. At low temperatures and high pressure, it combines with water to form methane hydrate, an ice-like solid of which huge deposits exist under the seafloor.

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