The Brutalist Report

Phys

• New family of optimized omnigenous magnetic fields could display enhanced fusion plasma confinement [7d]
• Toxin was released into the Congaree River in South Carolina: Agencies did little to stop it, greens say [7d]
• SpaceX knocks out another Space Coast launch [7d]
• New route to quantum spin liquid materials discovered [7d]
• Nature pays price for war in Israel's north [7d]
• Tropical Storm Sara pounds Honduras with heavy rain [7d]
• Study finds humidity diminishes daytime cooling gains in urban green spaces [7d]
• China tests building moon base with lunar soil bricks [7d]
• As Philippines picks up from Usagi, a fresh storm bears down [7d]
• Shanghai, Tokyo, New York, Houston spew most greenhouse gas of world cities [7d]
• Three innovative ways to help countries hit by climate disasters, beyond a loss and damage fund [8d]
• Menopause is having a moment. How a new generation of women is shaping cultural attitudes [8d]
• French women had more power in the Middle Ages than after the revolution, historian says [8d]
• Community protected by law on coast of Southeast Brazil is threatened by litter tourists leave on beach [8d]
• Researchers use nanotechnology to boost benefits of anthocyanin [8d]
• Shakespeare or ChatGPT? Study finds people prefer AI over real classic poetry [8d]
• A strategy of ligand-protected direct hydrogen reduction to prepare bimetallic cluster catalysts [8d]
• What determines support for EU-climate policy? Study reveals acceptance depends on inclusion of social policy measures [8d]
• Researcher suggests beloved Disney classics convey an idealized image of fatherhood [8d]
• Researchers shed light on the experiences of caregivers in Nunavut's family service system [8d]
• Mathematical approach can predict crystal structure in hours instead of months [8d]
• Discovery of 2,586 orphan genes in Rosa chinensis reveals stress adaptation and flower development [8d]
• Nationalism is surging—changing the way companies do business overseas [8d]
• Climate change: Women's role in the economy is key to a just transition [8d]
• Kinetic Alfvén waves may be key to mystery of solar corona heating [8d]
• 44,000 deaths and $10 billion: Study quantifies annual cost of child marriage in Nigeria [8d]
• Markets for forest products respond to technology, says report [8d]
• Decline in West African coastal fish stocks threatens food security and livelihoods [8d]
• Targeted glucosinolate conversion: How kohlrabi tissues produce health-promoting compounds [8d]
• Study of US law enforcement co-responder programs identifies wide variations [8d]
• Electric field signals reveal early warnings for extreme weather, study reveals [8d]
• Scientific models trust the land to soak up lots of CO₂—the reality is a lot more messy [8d]
• Unfair decisions by AI could make us indifferent to bad behavior by humans [8d]
• Researchers reveal why a key tuberculosis drug works against resistant strains [8d]
• Managing diverse and diverging demands on forests in Germany [8d]
• There's a class gap in access to careers in the arts—innovative skills education could help, say researchers [8d]
• Extended EMIT mission will explore diverse Earth science questions [8d]
• How the far right is evolving and growing in Canada [8d]
• New species of skink in discovered central Australian desert [8d]
• Slow editing of protein blueprints leads to cell death, spliceosome study discovers [8d]
• Viewpoint: Auction houses in the UK still sell human remains, and it's time they stopped [8d]
• What carbon dioxide 'jumps' from Antarctic ice say about climate change [8d]
• Northern lights: How the aurora borealis captivated 18th-century minds [8d]
• How plant roots change their growth pattern during 'puberty' has implications for climate-resilient agriculture [8d]
• Vocalization study finds highly individualized preferences for singing and speaking voices [8d]
• Theoretical model explains the anomalous properties of water in extreme conditions [8d]
• India's capital shuts all primary schools due to smog [8d]
• Study finds increase in media coverage of crises, but not in the number of crises [8d]
• Winter smog adds to pollution woes in India and Pakistan [8d]
• A new mission to Pluto could answer the questions raised by New Horizons [8d]
• New study examines how extraterrestrial civilizations could become 'stellivores' [8d]
• Q&A: Holobiont biology, a new concept for exploring how microbiome shapes evolution of visible life [8d]
• Industrial snow: Factories trigger local snowfall by freezing clouds [8d]
• Experiments show backyard birds learn from their new neighbors when moving house [8d]
• Study finds four global policies could eliminate >90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 [8d]
• To move or not to move: Is it cheaper to find a new place or stay when your rent increases by 10%? [8d]
• Untreated sewage and fertilizer runoff threaten the Florida manatee's main food source, contributing to malnutrition [8d]
• Can self-employment delay retirement? Only if you are healthy and wealthy [8d]
• Picky proteins: Understanding yeast adaptor protein selectivity [8d]
• Uniformed police reduced public sexual harassment more than undercover officers new research finds [8d]
• Poor teacher training partly to blame for stalled engineering diversity goals [8d]
• Scientists engineer stable protein complexes for targeted cancer therapies [8d]
• Survey provides a snapshot of scientific thought on animal emotions and consciousness [8d]
• BAFTA-nominated actors five times more likely to have attended private school than UK population [8d]
• Which animals carry mpox? Our study identified African forest dwelling rodents as one source [8d]
• Using genetic code expansion to study membrane proteins [8d]
• Study finds private equity targets firms with earnings myopia [8d]
• A 41-million-digit prime number is the biggest ever found—but mathematicians' search for perfection will continue [8d]
• Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn't [8d]
• Largest Pacific climate-adaptation study launched at COP29 [8d]
• Unregulated experts can cause harm to children in family courts [8d]
• Research looks to see how hidden costs of Social Security claiming takes toll on widows [8d]
• Deep learning streamlines identification of 2D materials [8d]
• Telescope for NASA's Roman mission complete, delivered to Goddard [8d]
• There is reliable evidence social media harms young people—debates about it are a misdirection [8d]
• Climate science is getting lost in translation [8d]
• When ads shock: Subtle ways that disgust can shape our buying habits [8d]
• Fine-tuning fertilizers to boost crop yields: Lowering fertilizer pH can increase solubility, availability of zinc [8d]
• Cash is king: The surprising truth about spending habits in a cashless world [8d]
• Online platform found to accelerate student learning in pandemic's wake [8d]
• Hubble sees aftermath of galaxy's scrape with Milky Way [8d]
• Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways—researchers develop hollow sphere silk particles to test adsorption [8d]
• African penguins could be extinct by 2035—how to save them [8d]
• Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun's magnetism, can affect the Earth's surface [8d]
• A proposed experiment to test whether gravity behaves as a quantum entity when measured [8d]
• Offshore oil offers limited gains for marine life [8d]
• Chemists develop dissipative droplet system capable of chemotactic movement [8d]
• Land-use policy rethink vital to hit net zero, say researchers [8d]
• Detecting cancer in urine: Nanowire-based capture of micro-ribonucleic acids [8d]
• 'Catastrophic declines': Massive data haul reveals why so many plants and animals suffer after fire [8d]
• Texting abbreviations makes senders seem insincere, study finds [8d]
• Genetic legacy of Jomon hunter-gatherers linked to increased BMI in modern Japanese populations [8d]
• Designing a spiral ladder-inspired tool that allows precision control of light direction and polarization [8d]
• 'Cool' white car headlights more likely to dazzle and endanger moths [8d]
• White smokers on the lake floor: Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea [8d]
• Climate impact of carbon crediting projects is substantially overestimated, analysis shows [8d]
• Quantum computing researchers develop an 8-photon qubit chip [8d]
• Living microbes discovered in Earth's driest desert with new separation technique [8d]
• Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster standard cosmological model [8d]
• Researchers focus on tipping points in river deltas to better manage flood risks [8d]