The Brutalist Report

Phys

• Examining threats to monetary sovereignty in the digital era [53d]
• Smoke caused by seasonal fires shrouds northern Thailand [53d]
• Extreme rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin—this is the future in a warming world [53d]
• Climate change means more landslides in NZ—but new tech can help reduce the risk [53d]
• New bioreactor turns stem cells into an immune-cell factory, producing 40 million human macrophages per week [53d]
• DNA damage just got more complicated: A long-missed weak spot emerges when light and oxygen strike [53d]
• Milky Way's 'little cousins' may hold clues about infant universe [53d]
• Retrospective genre bias can misread art; AI helps recover original context [53d]
• Moon dust could stop being a nuisance and start reshaping how humans may build beyond Earth [53d]
• Ancient African topography remotely modulated the South Asian summer monsoon millions of years ago, study finds [53d]
• These 'good' viruses hold up a booming industry—AI just found a faster way to track them [53d]
• Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago [53d]
• Life's earliest proteins may have folded into complex shapes with far fewer amino acids [53d]
• Efficient degradation of short-chain PFAS achieved with new method [53d]
• We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story [53d]
• AI accelerators deliver accurate models for challenging quantum chemistry calculations [53d]
• AI automates quantum dot voltage tuning for scaling up quantum computing [53d]
• How a sinking lithospheric root raised Mongolia's Hangay Mountains [53d]
• Study shows a widely used antifungal drug works only when its target enzyme is active [53d]
• Reeds boost mosquito spread in rivers and ponds [53d]
• Divergent moral values could make groups more accepting of norm-breaking behavior [54d]
• Inside the skull of a Devonian fish from Gondwana, revealed by neutron imaging [54d]
• Robotic fish prototype cuts aquaculture stress while inspecting nets and water [54d]
• A huge tectonic boundary shook the ground where dinosaurs once stood [54d]
• AI model designs new antibiotic for staph infections after exploring 46 billion compounds [54d]
• Women in science: Global study finds presence without power [54d]
• Room to move: Neutron scattering shows how proteins behave in crowded environments [54d]
• Atomic-level snapshots reveal how a key copper enzyme powers nature's chemistry [54d]
• Rye mulch stabilizes vegetable yields—clover living mulch can significantly reduce yields [54d]
• E. coli editing technique expands into a universal toolkit for rewriting bacterial DNA [54d]
• Tiny songbird crosses Sahara by flying night after night [54d]
• Q&A: Nature plays role in national security [54d]
• Riding the quantum wave: Quasiparticles reveal a magneto-optical transport phenomenon [54d]
• Common soil fungus could cut pesticide use while helping tomatoes grow stronger [54d]
• Political views may influence trust in smart technologies, research finds [54d]
• Why more gut and soil microbes could make ecosystems easier to predict [54d]
• Apple byproducts could power vehicles and feed livestock [54d]
• From the Pampas to Patagonia, DNA reveals South America's human history [54d]
• Legal categories for animals still divide—and limit—animal rights [54d]
• Climate and competition alone cannot explain Neanderthal extinction, study finds [54d]
• What we lose when AI does our shopping [54d]
• What if humans could regrow tissue? New study moves science closer [54d]
• Do polysaccharide-degrading enzymes also help build polysaccharides? [54d]
• Brazil unearths a bizarre beaked reptile with a trans-Atlantic prehistoric link [54d]
• Molecular chains unlock atomically precise nanoribbons for next-generation electronics [54d]
• Mozambique 'sky island' expeditions found four new species of chameleon that are already at risk from forest loss [54d]
• Machine learning helps detect roars from lion collars without recording actual audio [54d]
• What wild honey from the Philippine jungle reveals about biodiversity [54d]
• How earthquakes stop: Near-fault records uncover overlooked phase [54d]
• More than 600,000 seabirds killed in single marine heat wave [54d]
• Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization [54d]
• Only some kinds of job losses cause voters to elect strong leaders, study finds [54d]
• Why groups slowly stop working well together, even when conditions are good [54d]
• What's that swirly pattern? It's a moiré, and it has potential power [54d]
• 3I/ATLAS contains 30 times more semi-heavy water than comets in our solar system [54d]
• The science of coziness: A textiles expert explains feather down, bamboo, polyester duvets [54d]
• Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, these crusted remains expose a pathogen found far earlier than expected [54d]
• Amazon River plume: Where microalgae go carnivorous to win [54d]
• Is your cat or dog overweight? Why simply feeding less doesn't always help [54d]
• Chernobyl at 40: The lies, the loss and why we can't let go [54d]
• Quantum chips could scale faster with new spin-qubit readout that reduces sensors and wiring [54d]
• This flower's toxic traits hold clues for safer drugs [54d]
• Did NASA's Curiosity rover find signs of ancient life on Mars? An astrobiologist explains how we determine 'life' [54d]
• Climate finance may lower conflict risk in 85 developing countries, analysis suggests [54d]
• Mysterious gas clouds near Milky Way's black hole now have a likely source [54d]
• Black grouse eye test reveals best flags to protect birds from fatal cables [54d]
• Nuclear war at Ukraine-Russia border could trigger years of global climate disruption and radioactive fallout [54d]
• We eat a lot of wheat. So how can we grow more in a changing climate? [54d]
• These eight coastal cities sit on America's flood front line, and AI shows why [54d]
• Research shows community help essential for native bats [54d]
• From air to tea: New sensor reveals invisible pollution in minutes [54d]
• Gene-sharing view challenged as bacteria shown to police DNA exchange [54d]
• New study highlights private–public partnership advancing coastal resilience in Woods Hole [54d]
• More realistic content may reduce social media harms for new moms [54d]
• Neanderthals may have shared key DNA for complex language, reshaping when human speech began [54d]
• How an Atlantic island narrowly escaped 'stealthy' eruption [54d]
• Physicists revive 1990s laser concept to propose a next-generation atomic clock [54d]
• Scientists discover how the Twelve Apostles were formed—and their real age [54d]
• Citizen science helps ID elusive seabird, paves way for more citizen-backed discoveries [54d]
• One of Los Angeles' best-adapted urban creatures: Lizards [54d]
• Honeybees pass their math test, upending an animal intelligence debate [54d]
• A molecular 'cork' reveals how cells control growth [54d]
• Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution, diaries reveal [54d]
• Scientists focus on the challenges of working and living in outer space [54d]
• Could glass be dethroned as wine's top packaging? Researchers unbox consumer perceptions of wine packaging [54d]
• Study finds consumers pay extra for cars just under multiples of 10,000 miles [54d]
• In Eastern Africa, the cradle of humankind is tearing apart [54d]