https://phys.org/science-news/sci-other en-us The latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. This week, researchers proved empirically that life isn't fair. Also, you'll notice that, in a superhuman display of restraint, I managed to write a paragraph about the simulated universe hypothesis without once referencing "The Matrix." (Except for this reference.) https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-gravitational-simulated-universe.html Other Sat, 14 Oct 2023 09:40:01 EDT news616419448 A RUDN University economist has developed a new typology of theoretical approaches to innovations study, expanding theoretical knowledge in this field of science. Based on the new typology, the scientist named the most promising areas for further research on innovation. The results were published in the International Journal of Innovation Studies. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-economist-modern-typology.html Other Economics & Business Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:58:02 EDT news616424281 A climate researcher hit back against his dismissal from a German think-tank after refusing to take a flight back from a fact-finding mission in Papua New Guinea. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-climate-fly.html Other Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:44:29 EDT news616409067 The University of Liverpool is part of a new study that reveals for the first time how particular scents can influence our perception of color. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-reveals-perception.html Other Social Sciences Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:40:03 EDT news616408801 The Nobel prize in economics was on Monday awarded to American economist Claudia Goldin for research that has helped bring understanding to the role of women in the labor market. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-claudia-goldin-nobel-women-labor.html Other Economics & Business Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:48:25 EDT news616056496 They announced the Nobel prizes this week! But did any of the recipients teach an AI to play Street Fighter? Here are a few of this week's stories not yet lauded by international committees of scientists, but which we thought were pretty good: https://phys.org/news/2023-10-saturday-citations-hippo-maxillofacial-issues.html Other Sat, 07 Oct 2023 07:20:01 EDT news615809750 The most prestigious and secretive prize in science ran headfirst into the digital era Wednesday when Swedish media got an emailed press release revealing the winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry and the news prematurely went public. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-oops-nobel-chemistry-winners-early.html Other Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:55:02 EDT news615653694 Researchers Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking COVID-19 vaccines. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-kariko-weissman-nobel-mrna-covid.html Other Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:01:47 EDT news615445299 Six days of Nobel Prize announcements begin Monday with the unveiling of the winner of the medicine award. https://phys.org/news/2023-10-nobel-prize-underway-unveiling-medicine.html Other Mon, 02 Oct 2023 03:41:01 EDT news615436855 This week, we're highlighting a study involving toxic chemical contaminants, and just for fun, a second study involving other toxic chemical contaminants. But NASA made a cool time-lapse video using the good old Hubble space telescope, and a group of Italian demographers have a lot to say about the population-level consequences of lying. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-volcano-asteroid-nasa.html Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:30:01 EDT news615207143 Fall has arrived in Scandinavia, which means Nobel Prize season is here. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nobel-prizes.html Other Sat, 30 Sep 2023 04:16:53 EDT news615266165 I've been primarily an experimental chemist—the kind of person who goes into the laboratory and mixes and stirs chemicals—since the beginning of my career in 1965. Today, and for the past 15 years, I'm a full-time historian of chemistry. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nobel-prizes-sciencehow-today-poses.html Other Fri, 29 Sep 2023 11:23:19 EDT news615205395 From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the federal agency that oversees the research program decided to stop serving alcohol. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-antarctic-base-workers-buying-alcohol.html Other Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:48:58 EDT news615091730 When a Virgin Galactic commercial flight soared into space on 8 September 2023, there were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an instructor and three passengers on board—as well as two fossils of ancient prehuman relatives from South Africa. Timothy Nash, a businessman, carried a clavicle belonging to Australopithecus sediba and the thumb bone of a Homo naledi specimen. The fossils' brief journey—the VSS Unity's flight lasted just an hour—was organized by paleontologist Lee Berger, who led the team that discovered and described Homo naledi in 2015. Berger was granted an export permit in July by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) to take the fossils from the country to the US launch site for VSS Unity. SAHRA is a "national administrative body responsible for the protection of South Africa's cultural heritage." https://phys.org/news/2023-09-south-african-hominin-fossils-space.html Archaeology Other Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:28:30 EDT news614867307 Los Alamos was the perfect spot for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-birthplace-atomic-braces-biggest-mission.html Other Sun, 24 Sep 2023 05:33:15 EDT news614752389 This week, we reported on spider silk synthesis without spiders, and how policymakers are pursuing a wish-based approach to a global economy under climate change—what the kids call "manifesting" a green-growth future. Plus, black holes could be hungrier than previously believed. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-middleman-spider-silk.html Other Sat, 23 Sep 2023 07:00:01 EDT news614602372 Over the past three years, people from all walks of life have learned a great deal about different branches of science. The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to information about virology and vaccine production. Environmental disasters in every part of the world have brought concepts from meteorology and climatology to daily news reports. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-golden-effective-science-communication-perspectives.html Other Education Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:40:01 EDT news614517069 This week, we looked at the swirling chaos around supermassive black holes, anthropogenic climate effects over the Atlantic ocean and the threats to koalas. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-helmet-supermassive-black.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:40:01 EDT news614000141 Reanimating dead spiders to use them as robot claws, licking rocks, backwards talking and a toilet that scans "anal-prints": this year's Ig Nobel prizes again put a spotlight on the quirky side of science. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-dead-spider-claws-anal-print-toilets.html Other Sat, 16 Sep 2023 05:33:57 EDT news614061230 The cash award for each Nobel Prize to be handed out next month will increase to nearly one million euros, the Nobel Foundation announced Friday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-nobel-foundation-cash-award-prizes.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 09:38:22 EDT news613989497 Top science journal Nature was hit with claims last week that its editors—and those of other leading titles—have a bias towards papers highlighting negative climate change effects. It denies the allegation. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-science-editor-defends-peer-review-climate.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 05:22:50 EDT news613974162 Counting nose hairs in cadavers, repurposing dead spiders and explaining why scientists lick rocks, are among the winning achievements in this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for humorous scientific feats, organizers announced Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-repurposing-dead-spiders-cadaver-nose.html Other Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:16:37 EDT news613970189 An American researcher who spent 11 days stuck in a Turkish cave after falling ill said Thursday that he thought he would die there before a complex international rescue operation got him out. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-american-explorer-thought-die-day.html Other Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:29:00 EDT news613906135 The alleged bodies of two "non-human beings" were presented during a congressional hearing in Mexico, generating a mixture of surprise, disbelief and ridicule on social media on Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-alleged-bodies-non-human-shown-mexican.html Other Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:26:22 EDT news613841169 Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday, more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance, officials said. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-american-deep-turkish-cave-week.html Other Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:14:08 EDT news613710842 Rescuers said on Monday they were only hours away from pulling to safety a US explorer trapped for more than a week, and suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding, deep in a Turkish cave. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-explorer-verge-deep-turkish-cave.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:44:45 EDT news613665881 An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this year's Balzan Prize. Their work in the humanities and natural sciences advances the study of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-balzan-prizes-human-evolution-black.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:51:38 EDT news613659092 A major rescue operation in Turkey's Taurus Mountains succeeded in bringing out an American researcher who fell seriously ill nine days ago at a depth of some 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) from the entrance of one of the world's deepest caves. An experienced cave rescuer himself, Mark Dickey was assisted by teams of international rescuers who by Monday had gotten him to 100 meters (some 330 feet) from the surface. They brought him out early Tuesday. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-major-underway-deep-turkish-cave.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 12:04:50 EDT news613652686 The decision to close some schools and erect emergency structural supports in others just days before the start of a new term appeared to come about suddenly. The announcement followed three recent failures of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), in particular the collapse of a beam in late August at a primary school in Leicester. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-concrete-crisis-thought-asbestos-schools.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:58:01 EDT news613652275 Porcelain figurines, a white faux-leather sofa and a foosball table: these are among the items in a House of Savoy auction, providing a rare glimpse into the everyday life of royals. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-savoy-dynasty-daily-life-display.html Other Mon, 11 Sep 2023 06:38:58 EDT news613633129