physics

Professor Ioanna Sitaridou (right) with a 100 years-old Romeyka speaker in Turkey’s Trabzon region. Credit: Professor Ioanna Sitaridou A new data crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to the ancient world. The initiative, … Read more

A photo of MUSE, the first stellarator built at PPPL in 50 years and the first ever to use permanent magnets. Credit: Michael Livingston / PPPL Communications Department For the first time, scientists have built a fusion experiment using permanent magnets, a technique that could show a simple way to build future devices for less … Read more

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Most independent businesses can shoulder the added costs of higher minimum wages with new revenues, making only minor employment adjustments, according to new research from the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. The study, which draws on the universe of U.S. tax returns to examine the impacts of minimum wages, … Read more

This combination of photos shows the path of the sun during a total eclipse by the moon Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, near Redmond, Ore. On April 8, 2024, spectators who aren’t near the path of totality or who get cloudy weather on eclipse day can still catch the total solar eclipse, with NASA, science centers … Read more

An artist’s illustration of a rogue planet, dark and mysterious. Credit: NASA There’s a population of planets that drifts through space untethered to any stars. They’re called rogue planets or free-floating planets (FFPs.) Some FFPs form as loners, never having enjoyed the company of a star. But most are ejected from solar systems somehow, and … Read more

To create a new wound-care gel, researchers used a common hydrogel, Gel-MA, and created several combinations infused with platelet-rich blood plasma (PRP) and polylysine (PL). To test the gel’s ability to battle bacteria, they added E. coli and S. aureus, the bacterium that causes staph infection, and used scanning electron microscopy and plate counts to … Read more

Hundreds of schools in the Philippines suspended in-person classes on Tuesday due to dangerous levels of heat. Hundreds of schools in the Philippines, including dozens in the capital Manila, suspended in-person classes on Tuesday due to dangerous levels of heat, education officials said. The country’s heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into … Read more

a) Giant hailstone pictured in Gerona, Spain, during the August 2022 event. b) Sea surface temperature change for 30th August event with respect to data across the period 1940-2021. Gerona is indicated by the white X. c) Sea surface temperature anomalies averaged across the study area and period. Credit: Martin et al. 2024. Hail is … Read more

An eggshell fragment from the site of Bash Tepa, representing one of the earliest pieces of evidence for chickens on the Silk Road. Credit: Robert Spengler Chickens are one of the most economically important animals in the world today. However, the story of their origins and dispersal across the ancient world is still poorly understood. … Read more

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 80 percent of EU agriculture subsidies support polluting livestock and animal product farming, undermining the bloc’s climate targets, a study published Monday found. With global food systems accounting for about a third of greenhouse gas emissions, the European Union’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) currently “presents an economic disincentive for … Read more