The Brutalist Report

Phys

• Wolves and other predators present 'a crisis,' California's environment chief says [24d]
• Artemis II: The first human mission to the moon in 54 years launches soon, with a Canadian on board [24d]
• Study offers practical guide for AI application in marine conservation and fisheries [24d]
• For injured sea turtles like 'Porkchop,' Southern California's Aquarium of the Pacific has doubled its care space [24d]
• Another kind of student debt is entrenching inequality: 'Time inheritance' [24d]
• Nutritious school-provided lunches top of the menu for Australian parents [24d]
• A push to end a fractured approach to post-fire contamination removal [24d]
• Aerial lidar mapping can reveal archaeological sites while overlooking Indigenous peoples and their knowledge [24d]
• New satellite method maps 'creeping drought' in Canada's mountain snow [24d]
• Student well-being comes from care, but is caring enough? Academics reflect on three stumbling blocks [24d]
• To reduce CO₂ emissions, policy on carbon pricing, taxation and investment in renewable energy is key [24d]
• Study finds imported ozone blunted Europe, US gains from NOx cuts [24d]
• RNA droplets may have accelerated prebiotic Earth's development of complex molecules [24d]
• Freestanding 3D MXene structures push the limits of microscale devices [24d]
• Direct imaging captures the crystalline vibrations of a supersolid made of atoms and light [24d]
• New chemi-mechanical process removes pigments and restores properties in recycled plastics [24d]
• Silica nanocomposite can generate biocides on demand [24d]
• Biodegradable polymers used to develop eco-friendly, high-performance gas sensors [24d]
• Growing meltwater reservoirs—glacial lakes are both a resource and a habitat worthy of protection [24d]
• MXene nanoscrolls could improve energy storage, biosensors and more [24d]
• How fire-loving fungi learned to eat charcoal [24d]
• Light-based nanotechnology offers potential alternative to chemotherapy and radiation [24d]
• Prototype cassettes mark key step toward new CMS high-granularity calorimeter [24d]
• Mapping 'figure 8' Fermi surfaces to pinpoint future chiral conductors [24d]
• When Toronto paused for COVID, a key 'forever chemical' rapidly declined [24d]
• Real-time imaging captures contact between cells and between a single neuron's extensions [24d]
• NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars [24d]
• New map of the Milky Way's magnetism offers insights into cosmic evolution [24d]
• Bacterial 'brains' operate on the brink of order and disorder [24d]
• Kangaroo and wallaby evolution tied to Australia's past climate shifts [24d]
• Refractive-index microscope measures a sample's optical properties with pinpoint accuracy [24d]
• Scientists develop high-performance Hg-based crystal for mid-far infrared birefringence [24d]
• Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses, and a quiet form of deregulation [24d]
• Collective intelligence: How to incentivize problem solving in groups [24d]
• How plants respond to changing environments for better reproductive success [24d]
• Another Arctic blast bears down on US as snow cleanup drags on [24d]
• Photocatalysis enables direct coupling of native sugars and N-heteroarenes [24d]
• Flying gurnard grunts and flares fins to communicate, camera study confirms [24d]
• Why termite kings and queens are monogamous: Scientists uncover surprising answer [24d]
• What ice-fishing competitions reveal about human decision-making [24d]
• AI models retrace evolution of genetic control elements in the brain [24d]
• Caribbean heat waves intensify over five decades, study finds [24d]
• Learning about happiness could improve economics education [24d]
• From metabolism to disease: Mitochondria's hidden signaling networks unveiled [24d]
• 'Jerk' volcano early warning method uses single seismometer to detect magma movement [24d]
• Novel quantum refrigerator benefits from problematic noise [24d]
• Hidden toxin risks during nutrient-starved algal blooms uncovered [24d]
• Biodegradable bark–plastic composite lets engineers predict product lifetime from tensile tests [24d]
• Male or female? How one frog gene 'hijacked' sex determination about 20 million years ago [24d]
• How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair [24d]
• Did a tsunami hit the Bristol Channel four centuries ago? Revisiting the great flood of 1607 [24d]
• Rethinking Troy: How years of careful peace, not epic war, shaped this bronze age city [24d]
• Welcome to the 'Homogenocene': How humans are making the world's wildlife dangerously samey [24d]
• EPA's new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a license to ignore public health [24d]
• Gravitational wave signal tests Einstein's theory of general relativity [24d]
• Weakening the soy moratorium in Brazil: A political choice that ignores the science [24d]
• Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay [24d]
• King's Trough: How a shifting plate boundary and hot mantle material shaped an Atlantic mega-canyon [24d]
• Crosstalk inside cells helps pathogens evade drugs, study finds [24d]
• 2D discrete time crystals realized on a quantum computer for the first time [24d]
• Climate change is reshaping how companies do business [24d]
• Cleaner ship fuel changed clouds, but not their climate balance [24d]
• Map shows the far-flung places Colorado's wolves traveled in the past month [24d]
• Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate [24d]
• Men are embracing beauty culture—many of them just refuse to call it that [24d]
• Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not [24d]
• The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates [24d]
• AI enables a who's who of brown bears in Alaska [24d]
• ICE not only looks and acts like a paramilitary force—it is one, and that makes it harder to curb [24d]
• What is extremism, and how do we decide? [24d]
• Submarine mountains and long-distance waves stir the deepest parts of the ocean [24d]
• Will killing dingoes on K'gari make visitors safer? We think it's unlikely [24d]
• Svalbard polar bears show improved fat reserves despite sea ice loss [24d]
• Self-employed working hours return to pre-COVID levels after five year slump [24d]
• New white paper offers actions for managing trauma in the workplace [24d]
• Wetlands do not need to be flooded to provide the greatest climate benefit, shows study [24d]
• How tree rings help scientists understand disruptive extreme solar storms [24d]
• Fossilized plankton study gives long-term hope for oxygen-depleted oceans [24d]
• Living and working under the sea fills aquanauts with wonder and awe—the phenomenon is called the 'underview effect' [24d]
• 'Pesticide cocktails' pollute apples across Europe: Study [24d]
• Programmable terahertz vortices enable dual electric and magnetic skyrmion modes [24d]
• 'Forever chemicals' could cost Europe up to 1.7 tn euros by 2050: Report [24d]
• Data reveals hidden divide in coping with heat waves [24d]
• Study links social class origins to lower wage goals in job search [24d]
• On the nose: Reddit users report self-image struggles after years of exposure to Eurocentric beauty standards online [24d]
• Ancient DNA reveals 12,000-year-old case of rare genetic disease [24d]
• Self-powered composite material detects its own cracks [24d]
• Measuring the quantum extent of a single molecule confined to a nanodroplet [24d]
• Can justice happen on a laptop? Study says yes [24d]
• Atomic spins set quantum fluid in motion: Experimental realization of the Einstein–de Haas effect [24d]
• One single protein, one big decision: How brown algae know when to reproduce [24d]
• A new method to search for ultralight dark matter with advanced optical cavities [24d]
• Gaia data reveal three galactic open clusters in detail [24d]
• Empowering an AI foundation model to accelerate plant research [24d]
• Unusual RNA caps reveal previously unknown mechanism of genetic transcription [24d]
• Study finds most college students rebounded after pandemic, but to varying degrees [24d]
• Support stops at the checkout line: Consumer stigma undermines 'impact hiring' initiatives [24d]
• Earliest launch window to ISS set for February 11: NASA [24d]
• Extending free shipping to outside sellers can strengthen online marketplaces, study suggests [24d]
• Climate change worsened rains and floods which killed dozens in southern Africa, study shows [24d]