The Brutalist Report

Phys

• Your house may be a haven for wildlife. It's time we design homes with nature in mind [18d]
• France recorded 'hottest summer ever': Environment minister [18d]
• How El Nino is choking the Panama Canal [18d]
• Light-triggered interface lets adhesive peel cleanly and rebond through 15 cycles [18d]
• Soft nanoscale confinement prevents ice, exposing water's liquid-to-glass transition [18d]
• Tiny fossils reveal big insights about ant ancestors [18d]
• From peas to potatoes, AI identifies nearly 800 promising plant proteins for food and cosmetics [18d]
• How an unassuming wildflower thrives in salt-laden air that kills other plants [18d]
• Warming seas could shrink most mollusks by 2100, but some may grow [18d]
• Parliamentary motions show growing AI use, with no disclosure from MPs [18d]
• Iron helped scientists trace Earth's oxygen. Now it's telling a bigger story [18d]
• Built to last or break down: Ring size tunes biodegradable plastic lifetimes [18d]
• Satellites spot forest stress two years before bark beetle die-offs become apparent [18d]
• The Arctic melt season is a week longer now than it was in the 1980s, new research on sea ice trends shows [18d]
• Microbes—dead or alive—can be early indicators of soil health under regenerative farming [18d]
• Even second graders can reason like scientists—if we ask them the right way [18d]
• Nanoscale multiferroic materials open the path to efficient magnetic memory technology [18d]
• Predictive tools can confuse rare mutations with dangerous ones [18d]
• Beyond the 'Great Divide': What we really know about political polarization [18d]
• Ig Nobel Prize winners reveal why babies smell better than teenagers [18d]
• Traces of nearly 4 million coins reveal how Rome achieved economic integration [18d]
• 'Green thumb' molecule helps leaf stalks grow in crowded conditions [18d]
• A molecular brake that keeps muscle architecture in check [18d]
• How a plant's refusal to self-pollinate could help India grow more of its own cooking oil [18d]
• Hot subdwarfs come into focus as AI scans thousands of stars in Gaia data [18d]
• Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish behind Martian moon [18d]
• 'Power of disorder' tames CF₄, a semiconductor greenhouse gas that can persist for 50,000 years [18d]
• 'Empty nest' can trigger loneliness and loss in older parents, study finds [18d]
• Antarctic expedition reveals why Southern Ocean clouds remain one of climate science's greatest challenges [18d]
• Early mammals weren't all loners—some may have lived in pairs alongside the dinosaurs [18d]
• Rapid simulation of heat propagation through multiple rods [18d]
• Photo: NASA's Hubble spies superbubble scene [18d]
• Chimpanzees have accents too, study finds [18d]
• Malaysia starts cloud seeding to help clear toxic haze [18d]
• Newly discovered 1666 manuscript may trace four-lens telescope experiments to Galileo [18d]
• Why purpose doesn't always pay: The career cost of workplace climate activism [18d]
• Wrinkled or smooth? Cell growth mechanics determine shape of plant organs [18d]
• Scientists studying cockroach milk and nose-blowing win Ig Nobel prizes for quirky science [18d]
• Satellite images show how penguins' diets are changing in response to Antarctic climate change [18d]
• Scottish 'pregnant grandmother' microbe bursts open after growing offspring within [18d]
• How AI could make us work even harder [18d]
• Permafrost melt could cost $261 billion in infrastructure damages, study suggests [18d]
• Rising species numbers on Europe's mountaintops may mask increasing losses of high-elevation plant specialists [18d]
• BESIII sets world's most stringent direct limit on Lambda hyperon electric dipole moment [18d]
• Pigment found in beets linked to plants' adaptation to harsh environments [18d]
• Himalayan hazards are becoming more complex. Our warning systems need to catch up [18d]
• Quantum-optical spin glass could improve how AI remembers and learns [18d]
• Deep-sea methane filter develops faster than previously thought [18d]
• Metabolic networks provide clues about the earliest stages of enzyme evolution [18d]
• Neutron bone imaging brings T. rex to life [18d]
• GenAI increasingly seen by investors as a key tool to research companies and evaluate stocks [18d]
• Why doesn't Venus have a moon? A new study may have the answer [18d]
• First switchable graphene nanoribbon that twists on demand [18d]
• Researchers develop precise new method to analyze secretions from individual salmon lice [18d]
• New enzyme mechanism explains how sulfur-reducing bacteria process elemental sulfur [18d]
• El Niño could be strongest in decades, UN warns [18d]
• Surf's up: How the seafloor shapes breaking waves [18d]
• A pair of spacecraft draw closer to Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage [18d]
• Japanese scientist Shirakawa, co-winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry, dies at 90 [18d]
• AI suggests new physics experiments that could outperform human-designed setups [18d]
• First-of-its-kind research balances the needs of solar farms and grazing [18d]
• How stressed cells put the brakes on protein 'shipping' [18d]
• Bacterial nanoplatform reprograms spleen immune cells to help prevent cancer recurrence [18d]
• Viking South positioned to support industrial renewal in the Humber, report says [18d]