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 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 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 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 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 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 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 This first week of September, researchers reported on burned-out sharks, a method for maintaining quantum coherence and some positive market news for old-timey coal barons. Plus: Snail slime is really impressive if you look at it from a molecular standpoint. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-quantum-coherence-coal.html Other Sat, 09 Sep 2023 05:30:01 EDT news613391353 This week, researchers reported on two-dimensional gold sheets, a tidy little meson made of four quarks (and its buddy!) and a big and almost unimaginably dense exoplanet with an exciting backstory. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-saturday-citations-ancient-corvids-tetraquarks.html Other Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:20:01 EDT news612853844 This week, scientists contemplated teenage hormones, described cat noises, visualized photon entanglement and—oh!—landed on the moon. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-teenagers-bonobos-babies.html Other Sat, 26 Aug 2023 05:10:01 EDT news612181852 This week on Phys.org, we published news about ancient anarchists, a hidden phase transition, dark matter developments, hot oceans and pollution taxes. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-ancient-anarchists-filthy.html Other Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:30:01 EDT news611580502 A team of scientists from over a dozen of the nation's top bioengineering programs have created a roadmap for developing and implementing a hiring process aimed at increasing diversity among biomedical engineering faculty. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-national-network-biomedical-six-step-roadmap.html Other Education Tue, 15 Aug 2023 09:20:25 EDT news611310018 This week on phys.org, we published news about muons, gigantic stellar waves, a Homo-erectus-thwarting mini ice age, and a new whale guy. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-saturday-citations-muons-standard-refuting.html Other Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:10:01 EDT news611036133 A trio of physiologists at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, in Japan, has found that Formula 1 racecar drivers unintentionally time their blinking with straighter parts of the track. In their study, reported in iScience, Ryota Nishizono, Naoki Saijo and Makio Kashino fitted sensors to the helmets of three professional Formula 1 racecar drivers to monitor blinking. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-racecar-drivers-safest-track.html Other Tue, 23 May 2023 13:38:58 EDT news604067931 Women researchers received substantially less funding in grant awards than men—an average of about $342,000 compared to men's $659,000, according to a large meta-analysis of studies on the topic. https://phys.org/news/2023-05-gender-gap-grant-award-amounts.html Other Economics & Business Wed, 03 May 2023 06:00:02 EDT news602307862 The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication. https://phys.org/news/2023-03-death-access-mega-journals.html Other Education Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:04:49 EDT news599328275 It was a good year for research of all kinds as three men shared the Nobel Prize in physics for their work that showed that tiny particles separated from one another at great distances can be entangled. Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger won the award for their work showing that the counterintuitive field of quantum entanglement is real and also demonstrable. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-year-articles.html Other Fri, 09 Dec 2022 09:30:01 EST news589716013 The pandemic prompted workplace changes that proved beneficial to people with disabilities in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM), but there's fear that these accommodations will be rolled back. With International Day of Persons with Disabilities taking place on Dec. 3, a research team including faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York is calling for ways to make work in STEMM more accessible. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-science-accessible-people-disabilities.html Other Education Sun, 04 Dec 2022 06:40:35 EST news589358427 Before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly shut down labs and sent scientists home to work, female astronomers on average published about nine papers for every 10 published by men—a rate that has remained stagnant for decades. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-female-astronomers-covid-pandemic-widened.html Other Social Sciences Mon, 28 Nov 2022 11:00:05 EST news588843435 Say hello to ronnagrams and quettameters: International scientists gathered in France voted on Friday for new metric prefixes to express the world's largest and smallest measurements, prompted by an ever-growing amount of data. https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html Other Education Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:03:33 EST news587984602 The beginning of October means Nobel Prize season. Six days, six prizes, new faces from around the globe added to the world's most elite roster of scientists, writers, economists and human rights leaders. https://phys.org/news/2022-10-nobel-season-prizes.html Other Sun, 02 Oct 2022 06:03:10 EDT news583909380 A research team led by Professor Shigeki Nakauchi of Toyohashi University of Technology conducted an experimental study of the color composition preferences of 31,353 participants, for a total of 1,200 paintings with artificially manipulated color compositions. The group also identified the statistical color composition properties of the paintings to examine trends therein. https://phys.org/news/2022-09-composition-art-statistics.html Other Social Sciences Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:04:55 EDT news583491891 A small team of researchers at Beijing Normal University working with a colleague from Bar-Ilan University has found that researchers who collaborate with other researchers in multiple research areas tend to publish more highly cited papers than do those who generally only work with others in their field. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes analyzing the authorship of papers published in the journal American Physical Society and what they learned about collaboration and the degree of impact of authorship of papers under different scenarios. https://phys.org/news/2022-09-collaborate-multiple-areas-publish-highly.html Other Education Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:25:39 EDT news582542733 The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement. https://phys.org/news/2022-09-constipated-scorpions-sight-ig-nobels.html Other Fri, 16 Sep 2022 02:07:01 EDT news582512766 Miners in Angola have unearthed a rare pure pink diamond that is believed to be the largest found in 300 years, the Australian site operator announced Wednesday. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-miners-unearth-pink-diamond-believed.html Other Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:00:44 EDT news578113240 Historically, the scientific community has relied on educating the public in order to increase agreement with scientific consensus. New research from Portland State University suggests why this approach has seen only mixed results. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-overconfidence-bolsters-anti-scientific-views.html Other Education Thu, 21 Jul 2022 02:21:57 EDT news577588866 The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the recent rise in anti-science attitudes, a new review suggests. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-bases-anti-science-beliefsand.html Other Education Mon, 11 Jul 2022 15:00:04 EDT news576740797