https://phys.org/science-news/sci-other en-us The latest news on chemistry, math, archaeology, biology, chemistry, mathematics and science technologies. The role of atomic weapons has become more prominent and nuclear states are modernizing arsenals as geopolitical relations deteriorate, researchers said Monday, urging world leaders to "step back and reflect". https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nuclear-arms-prominent-geopolitical-tensions.html Other Political science Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:40:01 EDT news637816649 There's a lot of science news in seven days, so just because a new study isn't cited here on Saturday morning doesn't mean it didn't happen. A lot more has happened. But also, check out these four stories: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-saturday-citations-bacterial-warfare-language.html Other Sat, 15 Jun 2024 09:00:01 EDT news637600172 It looks like the lair of a Bond villain: behind armored doors, buried underground below the Louvre in Paris, lies one of the most high-tech art labs in the world. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-high-tech-art-lab-hidden.html Other Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:40:01 EDT news637557931 In the icy waters of the Arctic, NATO scientists are dissecting sound waves to improve the West's ability to track Russian submarines, as global warming alters acoustics underwater. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-nato-hones-arctic-subs-sonar.html Other Fri, 14 Jun 2024 04:17:06 EDT news637557419 Two athletes square off for an intense dance battle. The DJ starts spinning tunes, and the athletes begin twisting, spinning and seemingly defying gravity, respectfully watching each other and taking turns showing off their skill. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-paris-olympics-debut-high-breakdancing.html Other Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:45:03 EDT news637508701 It took a global pandemic to convince American businesses that their employees could work productively from home, or a favorite coffee shop. Post-COVID-19, employers are struggling to find the right balance of in-office and remote work. However, hybrid work is likely here to stay, at least for a segment of workers. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-cities-housing-shortages-office-apartments.html Other Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:22:35 EDT news637492948 Handwriting is dead. At least that's what a New York Times article announced in 2023 in its postmortem investigation "What Killed Penmanship?" But there was no doubt about the culprit: technology. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tech-penmanship-messy-problem-centuries.html Other Education Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:55:04 EDT news637235702 If there's one thing I've learned about dogs, it's that praise is super-effective for training; a new Hungarian study confirms these anecdotal findings and reinforces that notion that praise is more effective as a pedagogical approach than, for instance, scolding or criticism or deliberately placing one infraclass of mammals above another one with a childish insult like this one: https://phys.org/news/2024-06-saturday-citations-dogs-evolution-brown.html Other Sat, 08 Jun 2024 08:30:02 EDT news636981516 Antarctica is the most inhospitable continent on earth. It's dry, cold, and completely dark for months of the year. Edwardian explorers were some of the first to brave the Antarctic winter, developing new knowledge still drawn upon by scientists today. https://phys.org/news/2024-06-discovery-polar-explorers-stayed-healthy.html Other Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:30:01 EDT news636896777 In the small fishing village where I grew up, we didn't have much. But we helped our neighbors, raised our children to respect the sea, and embraced an inclusive scientific methodology with a cross section of sex, race and gender among study participants that enriched the results of our research. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturday-citations-music-sneaky-birds.html Other Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:30:01 EDT news636378316 A pioneering, national-level study has been conducted by the research group of Paleogenomics and Evolutionary Genetics of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH). The 18 civilians from the village of Adele (Rethymnon) that were executed on June 2, 1941, were identified, utilizing ancient DNA and genomic analysis techniques. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-world-war-ii-civilians-adele.html Archaeology Other Mon, 27 May 2024 10:28:01 EDT news636024460 Sometimes, science requires traveling into hazardous environments; sometimes it requires a vast influx of state capital and an army of researchers and technicians. But sometimes, science has to call in the Marines. We reported on that this week, along with news about a new cathode for electric batteries made from an Earth-abundant element that will stun you into silence, and the No. 1 fear of animals globally. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturday-citations-cheapness-horizon-electric.html Other Sat, 25 May 2024 08:30:02 EDT news635772167 The naysayers said the maddening multicolored cube that Erno Rubik invented 50 years ago would not survive the 1980s. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-fad-rubik-cube.html Other Mon, 20 May 2024 04:13:48 EDT news635397220 This week, we reported on the birth throes of black holes, the questionable assertions of a study about vegan dogs and a technique for observing entanglement without breaking quantum coherence. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturday-citations-mediterranean-diet-racks.html Other Sat, 18 May 2024 09:00:01 EDT news635167375 John Milton's handwritten annotations have been identified in a copy of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a vital source of inspiration for the Paradise Lost poet. The discovery, made in the Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix, Arizona, makes this one of only three known books to preserve Milton's handwritten reading notes, and one of only nine books to have survived from his library. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-john-milton-rare-prudish-censorship.html Other Education Wed, 15 May 2024 11:00:01 EDT news634983482 The onset of solar maximum has resulted in severe geomagnetic storms, with the possibility of aurora borealis events this weekend as far south as the northern United States. Do not be alarmed if you see awesome displays of light over your neighborhood, it is just a solar wind disturbance passing through the magnetosphere. This week, we reported on a cute but endangered marsupial, the table manners of supermassive black holes and what ultra-processed Tostitos Scoops may be doing to your heart. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturday-citations-dietary-habits-humans.html Other Sat, 11 May 2024 08:30:01 EDT news634562769 Already a popular option in the U.S., and famously chosen by Archbishop Desmond Tutu who died in 2021, alkaline hydrolysis—a sustainable method of disposing the body after death—is set to be regulated in Scotland. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-cremation-benefits-sustainable-body-disposal.html Other Social Sciences Wed, 08 May 2024 11:54:03 EDT news634388038 We field a torrent of science news updates every week and on Saturday morning, we highlight three or four of them based on the observed preferences of a panel of dogs as shown by the Paired-Stimulus Preference Assessment, a standardized evaluation of preferred stimuli. This week, the dogs selected stories about parrot-to-parrot video calling, loud human noises, and a new neural map of human wakefulness. https://phys.org/news/2024-05-saturday-citations-parrots-internet-human.html Other Sat, 04 May 2024 09:00:01 EDT news633961102 The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility—a sign of the Beijing's continuing pressure on scientists conducting research on the coronavirus. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-chinese-scientist-published-covid-sequence.html Other Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:30:13 EDT news633681004 Letters written by the famous mountaineer George Mallory have been made available to a global audience for the first time, in the centenary year of his fatal attempt to scale Everest. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-everest-mountaineer-letters-digitized.html Other Social Sciences Sun, 21 Apr 2024 19:00:01 EDT news632740720 Hello, stakeholders. (This is the nongendered term of address I've been workshopping because I see "folks" in too many social media posts.) Researchers this week reported on an AI model that attempts to emulate human irrationality in decision-making, which has to be the best approach toward building a human-equivalent general AI, right? Like, if you told Siri "Thank you," and she replied "You, too" instead of "You're welcome," and then felt embarrassed about it. That would seem deeply human to me. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-irrationality-genetic-basis.html Other Sat, 20 Apr 2024 07:30:01 EDT news632750522 The Bike Bus movement has emerged as a powerful tool to promote road safety, sustainability and community. According to a global survey carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the phenomenon has gained momentum globally in recent years, with more than 470 Bike Bus routes worldwide, transporting 32,000 children to school every week. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-bike-bus-gains-sustainable-safe.html Other Social Sciences Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:06:03 EDT news632678761 New details have emerged about the history of one of St. Augustine's most popular tourist attractions. University of South Florida Spanish Professor David Arbesú pieced together documents that were scattered around the world that helped connect the dots about the life of Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales, believed to be the first priest in the United States. An 11-foot statue of him is located on the grounds of Mission Nombre de Dios near Matanzas Bay. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-reveals-hidden-story-st-augustine.html Archaeology Other Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:23:24 EDT news632503402 John Stone, a professor at the University of Barcelona, has found the request for two copies of Shakespeare's Othello to be sent to Lisbon in 1765, in the correspondence of the English scholar John Preston, a professor at the English College in Lisbon, addressed to the college's London agent, John Sheppard. Stone found this reference in the Ushaw College, in Durham (United Kingdom), where all the documents from the English College in Lisbon are now kept, after it closed its doors in 1973, after more than three hundred years of activity. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-shakespeare-plays-portugal.html Other Social Sciences Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:00:03 EDT news632415602 Scientists from the University of Sharjah and the Warburg Institute are poring over the writings of an 11th-century Arab-Muslim polymath to demonstrate their impact on the development of optical sciences and how they have fundamentally transformed the history of physics from the Middle Ages up to modern times in Europe. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-11th-century-arab-muslim-optical.html Other Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:25:08 EDT news632406286 Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today—and that's partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, sufferers had no remedy for leprosy's debilitating symptoms or its social stigma. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-young-black-scientist-pivotal-leprosy.html Other Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:10:01 EDT news632405294 It's Saturday, which means that in a universe where the arrow of time moves backward, people have to go to work tomorrow. In such a hypothetical universe, Garfield hates Fridays—tough to imagine. This week, we looked at several hundred breaking science developments, four of which I've highlighted here, including a new geoengineering study, a quantum infosec breakthrough, and listening in on the melodious dreams of birds. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-bird-qubits-impossible.html Other Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:30:01 EDT news632144179 While I was assembling and formatting all these links, we had a 4.8-magnitude earthquake here on the East Coast, so apologies in advance for any misaligned text. This week: Gravitationally accelerated stars! AIs that exhibit cooperative and selfish behaviors! And another edition of "Would You Eat This?" https://phys.org/news/2024-04-saturday-citations-ai-prisoner-dilemma.html Other Sat, 06 Apr 2024 08:30:01 EDT news631537403 New research highlights how in the 1930s, the relationship between radio and Finland's most famous composer Jean Sibelius had an important effect on the development of broadcast operations as well as on the status of Sibelius and Western classical art music. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-radio-famous-finnish-jean-sibelius.html Other Social Sciences Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:21:02 EDT news631545661 Britain was already well on its way to an industrialized economy under the reign of the Stuarts in the 17th century—over 100 years before textbooks mark the start of the Industrial Revolution—according to the most detailed occupational history of a nation ever constructed. https://phys.org/news/2024-04-britain-began-industrializing-17th-century.html Other Economics & Business Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:00:01 EDT news631440481