The Brutalist Report

Phys

• Examining threats to monetary sovereignty in the digital era [49d]
• Smoke caused by seasonal fires shrouds northern Thailand [49d]
• Extreme rain on snow is testing aging dams across Michigan and Wisconsin—this is the future in a warming world [50d]
• Climate change means more landslides in NZ—but new tech can help reduce the risk [50d]
• New bioreactor turns stem cells into an immune-cell factory, producing 40 million human macrophages per week [50d]
• DNA damage just got more complicated: A long-missed weak spot emerges when light and oxygen strike [50d]
• Milky Way's 'little cousins' may hold clues about infant universe [50d]
• Retrospective genre bias can misread art; AI helps recover original context [50d]
• Moon dust could stop being a nuisance and start reshaping how humans may build beyond Earth [50d]
• Ancient African topography remotely modulated the South Asian summer monsoon millions of years ago, study finds [50d]
• These 'good' viruses hold up a booming industry—AI just found a faster way to track them [50d]
• Giant octopuses may have ruled the oceans 100 million years ago [50d]
• Life's earliest proteins may have folded into complex shapes with far fewer amino acids [50d]
• Efficient degradation of short-chain PFAS achieved with new method [50d]
• We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story [50d]
• AI accelerators deliver accurate models for challenging quantum chemistry calculations [50d]
• AI automates quantum dot voltage tuning for scaling up quantum computing [50d]
• How a sinking lithospheric root raised Mongolia's Hangay Mountains [50d]
• Study shows a widely used antifungal drug works only when its target enzyme is active [50d]
• Reeds boost mosquito spread in rivers and ponds [50d]
• Divergent moral values could make groups more accepting of norm-breaking behavior [50d]
• Inside the skull of a Devonian fish from Gondwana, revealed by neutron imaging [50d]
• Robotic fish prototype cuts aquaculture stress while inspecting nets and water [50d]
• A huge tectonic boundary shook the ground where dinosaurs once stood [50d]
• AI model designs new antibiotic for staph infections after exploring 46 billion compounds [50d]
• Women in science: Global study finds presence without power [50d]
• Room to move: Neutron scattering shows how proteins behave in crowded environments [50d]
• Atomic-level snapshots reveal how a key copper enzyme powers nature's chemistry [50d]
• Rye mulch stabilizes vegetable yields—clover living mulch can significantly reduce yields [50d]
• E. coli editing technique expands into a universal toolkit for rewriting bacterial DNA [50d]
• Tiny songbird crosses Sahara by flying night after night [50d]
• Q&A: Nature plays role in national security [50d]
• Riding the quantum wave: Quasiparticles reveal a magneto-optical transport phenomenon [50d]
• Common soil fungus could cut pesticide use while helping tomatoes grow stronger [50d]
• Political views may influence trust in smart technologies, research finds [50d]
• Why more gut and soil microbes could make ecosystems easier to predict [50d]
• Apple byproducts could power vehicles and feed livestock [50d]
• From the Pampas to Patagonia, DNA reveals South America's human history [50d]
• Legal categories for animals still divide—and limit—animal rights [50d]
• Climate and competition alone cannot explain Neanderthal extinction, study finds [50d]
• What we lose when AI does our shopping [50d]
• What if humans could regrow tissue? New study moves science closer [50d]
• Do polysaccharide-degrading enzymes also help build polysaccharides? [50d]
• Brazil unearths a bizarre beaked reptile with a trans-Atlantic prehistoric link [50d]
• Molecular chains unlock atomically precise nanoribbons for next-generation electronics [50d]
• Mozambique 'sky island' expeditions found four new species of chameleon that are already at risk from forest loss [50d]
• Machine learning helps detect roars from lion collars without recording actual audio [50d]
• What wild honey from the Philippine jungle reveals about biodiversity [50d]
• How earthquakes stop: Near-fault records uncover overlooked phase [50d]
• More than 600,000 seabirds killed in single marine heat wave [50d]
• Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization [50d]
• Only some kinds of job losses cause voters to elect strong leaders, study finds [50d]
• Why groups slowly stop working well together, even when conditions are good [50d]
• What's that swirly pattern? It's a moiré, and it has potential power [50d]
• 3I/ATLAS contains 30 times more semi-heavy water than comets in our solar system [50d]
• The science of coziness: A textiles expert explains feather down, bamboo, polyester duvets [50d]
• Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, these crusted remains expose a pathogen found far earlier than expected [50d]
• Amazon River plume: Where microalgae go carnivorous to win [50d]
• Is your cat or dog overweight? Why simply feeding less doesn't always help [50d]
• Chernobyl at 40: The lies, the loss and why we can't let go [50d]
• Quantum chips could scale faster with new spin-qubit readout that reduces sensors and wiring [50d]
• This flower's toxic traits hold clues for safer drugs [50d]
• Did NASA's Curiosity rover find signs of ancient life on Mars? An astrobiologist explains how we determine 'life' [50d]
• Climate finance may lower conflict risk in 85 developing countries, analysis suggests [50d]
• Mysterious gas clouds near Milky Way's black hole now have a likely source [50d]
• Black grouse eye test reveals best flags to protect birds from fatal cables [50d]