The Brutalist Report

Phys

• We finally have some encouraging news on Great Barrier Reef water quality [15d]
• Team identifies an evolutionarily conserved enhancer that regulates tendon and ligament development [15d]
• The crisis in cosmology continues: Critical problems in a recent defense of cosmic acceleration [15d]
• Virtual reality reveals glassfish synchronize through split-second copying of single neighbors [15d]
• Reworked tRNAs enable protein design with up to 34 amino acids [15d]
• Innovative etching method for silicon: Higher precision through interlayer [15d]
• AI framework challenges student ideas early, helping undergraduates think critically about research [15d]
• How plants use scoop-shaped pores to distribute their pollen efficiently [15d]
• Electrically charged raindrops could be corroding metal with protective coatings [15d]
• The 'Rock of Starvation' reappears as drought tightens its grip on the Danube [15d]
• Ramped fields create more robust entanglement between trapped-ion qubits [15d]
• Ocean antacid trials test plankton response in 8,000-liter seawater enclosures [15d]
• We discovered rare dinosaur tracks from the Coniacian age near Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia [15d]
• European city climate plans underuse green spaces despite adaptation benefits, finds study [15d]
• Reference genome of the Saimaa ringed seal released [15d]
• Does AI shape decisions before we do? Researcher questions what 'human in the loop' really means [15d]
• How plants evolved a molecular switch to cope with heat [15d]
• Hidden switch in cell division may point to new cancer treatments [15d]
• Political divide traced to differing views on who is vulnerable [15d]
• Australia's lizards and snakes disappearing faster than previously thought [15d]
• Unexpected source of genetic diversity found in human sperm [15d]
• Machine learning methods move self-driving labs closer to materials discovery at scale [15d]
• Africa's herbarium collections are a scientific treasure. They need to be digitized before more biodiversity is lost [15d]
• Basalt weathering may remove far less CO₂ than projected [15d]
• Thermal anomaly discovered below Mars' south pole [15d]
• Disappearing lakes, old photos and AI are helping scientists map Arctic permafrost thaw in near‑real time [15d]
• AI designs new antibodies that pass blinded laboratory tests [15d]
• Sunscreen for lakes and dams: Could a thin floating layer of nanomaterial shield water from evaporation? [15d]
• Permafrost thaws worldwide as active layers deepen from 2000 to 2024 [15d]
• Why banks in Ghana make little use of AI for climate action decisions [15d]
• Dry seeds preserve fully formed mitochondria, unlocking rapid energy at germination [15d]
• Fossil-fuel carbon fingerprint reaches the deep North Atlantic [15d]
• How climate change affects different modes of transport—from roads to railways [15d]
• For Legionella bacteria, taking over a cell means playing by its rules [15d]
• Older women experience sexual violence too, but their stories rarely make the news [15d]
• Roman telescope aims to directly image exoplanets 1,000 times fainter than current limits [15d]
• Liquid gallium experiment confirms key flow regime inside rapidly rotating stars and planets [15d]
• Genetic traces reveal river residents: 1,072 species in a bucket of water [15d]
• Better timetables could greatly shorten train travel times [15d]
• Observing the vibrations of neighboring atoms with an atomic-scale double slit [15d]
• When fruits and veggies are scarce, monkeys hunt for meat [15d]
• Climate change exposes up to 560 million children globally to at least one additional month of dangerous heat per year [15d]
• Many workplaces resist plant-based lunches despite substantial climate benefits [15d]
• Tiny atomic changes could lead to smarter wireless technology [15d]
• Narwhals help researchers uncover unique data from the deepest East Greenland fjords [15d]
• Chagas parasite's survival trick offers antimalarial-style target [15d]
• Buried underwear shows land use is key to soil health [15d]
• Did ocean motion carve Enceladus's tiger stripes? [15d]
• Even protected Florida wetlands can't escape microplastic pollution [15d]
• How high scores in an online brain teaser made mathematicians lie for three years [15d]
• Congo Basin study reveals nuanced relationship between people and flooding [15d]
• Expert Comment: More extreme weather is coming—AI may help us to better prepare for it [15d]
• Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape [15d]
• Looking into the eyes of gibbons: New noninvasive eye-tracking study features these little-studied apes [16d]
• Gambling branding dominates Premier League YouTube highlights, new study finds [16d]
• Human activity is pushing lakes beyond their natural carbon limits [16d]
• Researchers develop hydrogels to create a programmable niche for blood stem cells [16d]
• Narrow ultrasonic beam enables stable 3D levitation six times farther than before [16d]
• CanopyFit maps urban tree sites with greatest cooling potential [16d]