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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time using real-world satellite data that incorporating heavy water isotope measurements into weather models improves forecasts of wind, temperature, and heavy rainfall up to …
Italy's foreign ministry is accepting applications until September 22, 2026, for three awards recognizing Italian researchers and innovators abroad, including a bilateral cooperation prize for scientists in New Zealand.
The Cádiz Free Zone and the University of Cádiz have announced that ESA reserve astronaut and cancer researcher Sara García Alonso will give the opening lecture at the Blue Zone …
A correspondence in The Lancet questions the reliability of LLM-based classifiers used to estimate fabricated references in peer-reviewed literature, warning that detection tools may themselves undermine efforts to measure and …
A 13-ion quantum simulator has reproduced a particle-forming process tied to the extreme physics of the early universe, suggesting quantum computers could help researchers study how matter formed after the …
A new analysis argues that the same exponential-growth fears that drove climate and pandemic warnings now shape A.I. risk debates, and that the track record of such predictions is mixed.
Cyril Hilsum, former president of the Institute of Physics and a pioneer in liquid crystal technology that enabled modern flat-panel displays, has died at 101. He held more than 70 …
A seven-metre uncrewed craft has set off from Hobart on a 22,000km lap of Antarctica, powered by wind and solar energy, to collect ocean data for Australian scientists studying how …
Physicists in China have directly measured the probability amplitudes of more than 1.4 million possible paths taken by single photons, validating both foundational postulates of Richard Feynman's 1948 path-integral formulation …
Newcastle University has appointed Anant Ambani, heir to an Indian oil and gas fortune and operator of a controversial mega-zoo, as a professor of practice in sustainability, prompting criticism from …
The 2026 Climate Forward conference has announced its speaker roster, bringing together scientists, policymakers, and industry leaders to address the intersection of climate research and public policy.
The annual briefing reports how accelerator science is cutting energy use and environmental impact, while private fusion firms aim for commercial electricity in the 2030s.
Scientific publishers are expanding research-integrity operations to counter commercial papermills that sell fabricated papers, authorships, and citations, a problem accelerated by artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Two independent experiments using cold atom interferometry have tested the weak equivalence principle, one aboard China's space station and another in a laboratory freefall apparatus, both confirming Einstein's general relativity …
A new book from the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses more than 200 archival photographs to document the world's first atomic explosion and the people …
ATLAS measurements of proton-oxygen collisions at the LHC are over ten times more precise than the differences between leading air-shower simulations, revealing that no single model accurately describes particle production.
A webinar by Dr. Sudipta Seth will explore how in situ and operando optical microscopy and spectroscopy reveal the nanoscale processes that govern perovskite optoelectronic device performance.
A decade-long experiment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has produced a fresh value for the universal gravitational constant that conflicts with another leading result, leaving physicists uncertain …
Physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider have found strong evidence that heavy Z bosons become quantum entangled during Higgs boson decays, showing that Einstein's «spooky action at a distance» persists …
Northwestern University physicists report that carefully balanced variation, or disorder, can make complex networks such as power grids, ecosystems, neurons, and materials more stable than perfectly uniform systems, a finding …
