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Environment 7 hours ago

Greenhouse gases hit record highs, yet again

Levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached unprecedented highs in 2025, locking in more long-term warming for the planet, according to a new report from the World Meteorological ...

Plants & Animals 7 hours ago

Map of Life: More progress needed to safeguard global biodiversity, new report finds

Global efforts to preserve habitat and the planet's most endangered species urgently need to be stepped up, according to a new report from Map of Life, the flagship initiative of the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global ...

Plants & Animals 8 hours ago

Scientists reveal the staggering number of bat deaths at wind turbines

Bat populations across the United States face numerous threats, and one of the biggest may be the number of collisions with wind turbines. According to the most comprehensive study of the problem to date, published in the ...

Paleontology & Fossils 8 hours ago

121-million-year-old fossils suggest Longipteryx had no tail feathers

Around 121 million years ago, somewhere in modern northeastern China, an early bird took to the skies. If you drew its silhouette, you'd notice something was missing. Unlike any bird alive today, it had no tail feathers.

Social Sciences 10 hours ago

Crowdsourced collaborations: Using AI, social media to find potential brand partners

Brand collaborations have been growing in popularity as a powerful marketing tool for businesses looking to generate hype and expand their customer base, but brand managers often rely on costly and time-consuming surveys ...

Optics & Photonics 11 hours ago

New converter could bridge light wavelength gap in quantum communications

Quantum networks, systems that connect devices using quantum mechanical effects, could potentially allow users to share information more securely and efficiently. Building these networks typically entails linking stationary ...

Plasma Physics 12 hours ago

Radio waves drive a fusion plasma current that could help reactors run continuously

For the first time, a team of physicists in the U.S. has clearly demonstrated a "helicon current drive" in a nuclear fusion experiment. Led by Jeff Lestz at General Atomics, San Diego, the team took advantage of the latest ...

Economics & Business 21 hours ago

Skip-level meetings may win bypassed managers' support, but how they are done matters

Skip-level meetings (SLMs) seem common in some work environments but unheard of and norm-breaking in others. They entail both benefits and risks for employees, bypassed and skip-level managers, and organizations. Their effects ...

Veterinary medicine Oct 26, 2026

Can cats really thrive on vegan diets? Professor Andrew Knight responds to critics

In response to a recent article on vegan diets for cats, Phys.org received numerous messages from concerned readers. People raised a lot of concerns, mainly arguing that cats are obligate carnivores and that vegan diets could ...

Materials Science Oct 26, 2026

Keeping water molecules connected reduces carbon electrode corrosion

Carbon is inexpensive, conductive, and widely used in technologies such as fuel cells and water electrolyzers. But under strongly oxidizing conditions, carbon electrodes gradually corrode.

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