The Brutalist Report

Phys

• Upconversion materials: A new frontier in solar water-splitting [44d]
• Elephants avoid humans far more than baboons, waterbucks or antelopes [44d]
• Soybeans recruit beneficial soil microbes to defend against a major pest [44d]
• Toxic evolution: How wasps and frogs mimic pain molecules to deter predators [44d]
• Engineers improve infrared devices using century-old materials [44d]
• Tracking the toxic metals left behind by wildfires [44d]
• New research warns charities against 'AI shortcut' to empathy [44d]
• Plant cell structure could hold key to cancer therapies and improved crops [44d]
• AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring [44d]
• Amazon fish contaminated with toxic metals threaten riverine communities' health [44d]
• Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic [44d]
• Toward practical laser-driven light sails using photonic crystals [44d]
• Researchers create a never-before-seen molecule and prove its exotic nature with quantum computing [44d]
• NASA now officially has no plans to use new mobile launcher for Artemis [44d]
• Chemically tuning nanographene into topological spin chains and why the ends matter [44d]
• Why Large Hadron Collider predictions can miss the mark, and a new way to fix it [44d]
• Marine biologists a family history of San Diego's giant kelp over more than four decades [44d]
• Protecting wildlife from genetic collapse with newly identified 'early warning signals' [44d]
• Shrinking the carbon footprint of chemical manufacturing with lasers and solar radiation [44d]
• How evolution shapes color diversity in coral reef fish [44d]
• Microbial ancestor of complex life was more sophisticated than previously thought, studies suggest [44d]
• Electric field tunes vibrations to ease heat transfer [44d]
• Missing technosignatures? Turbulent plasma may blur ultra-narrow signals before they leave their home star systems [44d]
• New software for biodiversity research enables comprehensive quantification of ecological stability [44d]
• Research sheds light on food safety risks in California's Central Coast produce [44d]
• Flipped chromosomal segments drive natural selection, Atlantic silversides study shows [44d]
• Polymer-chemistry dataset created for training AI models [44d]
• Why woodpeckers rarely get rattled: Skulls built to control rotation, not cushion blows [44d]
• Ocean currents drive disease spread between oyster reefs: Research identifies restoration sites at risk [44d]
• Real-time imaging of microplastics in the body improves understanding of health risks [44d]
• A translation vanished: Why Ljuba Metzl may be missing from theater history [44d]
• New species of ancient mollusk found in South Korean waters [44d]
• Environmental sampling finds more poultry viruses than bird swabs in live markets [44d]
• Drones capture rare harbor porpoise mating behavior off Shetland [44d]
• Weaponizing kinship: How Colombia's armed conflict uses family loss to tear apart communities [44d]
• Whole-genome study of koalas shows genetic diversity alone can misread extinction risk [44d]
• This odd little plant could help turbocharge crop yields [44d]
• Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss [44d]
• Wild macaques don't abandon babies. So why did Punch's mother? [44d]
• Paleontologists challenge use of bone growth rings to age crocodiles, dinosaurs [44d]
• We designed an AI tutor that helps college students reason rather than give them answers [44d]
• The Black Death's counterintuitive effect: As human numbers fell, so did plant diversity [44d]
• Polymers that crawl like worms: How materials can develop direction without being told where to go [44d]
• Why are some stars always visible while others come and go with the seasons? [44d]
• 2025 was hotter than it should have been: Five influences and a dirty surprise offer clues to what's ahead [44d]
• Researchers advance solvent-based recycling for flexible plastics [44d]
• Cleaner water, longer-lasting devices: New benchmark measures electrocatalysis oxidants in real time [44d]
• CEO turnover taxes analyst attention, skewing broader forecasts [44d]
• How cells work together: The mathematics behind biological shapes [44d]
• Piecing together parasitic plant pathways [44d]
• Cooling Dwight: Researchers are helping to address heat inequities in New Haven [44d]
• Franconia's agriculture of the future: Olives and rice instead of barley and sugar beet? [44d]
• Pond-dwelling microalga exposes a parallel track for RNA processing [44d]
• Scientists clock a driving factor in the evolution of error correction [44d]
• Lord of the fruit flies: How scientists are defending against a major agricultural pest [44d]
• Scientists create a hexagonal diamond that could be even harder than the real thing [44d]
• Introducing the Interplanetary Habitable Zone [44d]
• Binary star population of open cluster NGC 2158 explored with Hubble [44d]
• Multifractal patterns across deep time: What measurement density reveals about Earth's history [44d]
• Newfound terrestrial crocodile fossil redraws the map of Europe in the age of the dinosaurs [44d]
• Drug-related homicides increased in Mexico after NAFTA, study finds [44d]
• Freshwater fish are more resilient to rising temperatures than marine fish, ecologists find [44d]
• Researchers find harmful algae species wasn't new to South Australian waters [44d]
• How Japanese red elder plants save two lives with one fruit drop [44d]
• New LVK catalog adds 128 gravitational-wave candidates, more than doubling detections [44d]
• NASA's eclipse megamovie project releases full data on 2024 solar eclipse [44d]
• Burned permafrost peatlands release carbon for years after wildfires, researchers find [44d]
• How considering green spaces at multiple scales improves city planning [44d]
• When populist rhetoric is high, entrepreneurs are more likely to dodge taxes [44d]
• Neutrons reveal magnetic signatures of chiral phonons [44d]
• Scientists successfully harvest chickpeas from 'moon dirt' [44d]
• How old is the universe? The oldest stars give us a clue [44d]
• Black Death 'rewilding' did not boost biodiversity, study suggests [44d]
• Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions [44d]
• What goes on inside a massive star before it explodes as a supernova? [44d]
• Too many deer in your area? Birth control could help [44d]
• Improved estimates of storm water in sewers could help reduce flooding [44d]
• Swipe right, but safer: New Safety Map aims to help people navigate risks on dating apps [44d]
• 3D imagery helps bring world's ant diversity to life [44d]
• ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the red planet [44d]
• Molecular 'catapult' fires electrons at the limits of physics [44d]
• The secret lives of catalysts: How microscopic networks power reactions [44d]
• Japan startup's space rocket fails for third time [44d]
• Punch the orphan macaque is outgrowing his plushie and making friends [44d]
• Thermogenetics: How proteins are controllable by heat [44d]