The Brutalist Report

Phys

Laser stability method advances precision control of electrons with light [34d]
They're content creators with thousands of adoring fans. So why do they feel so terrible? [34d]
Biological sex is neither binary nor a spectrum—a biologist explains how it's multidimensional [34d]
How does wildfire smoke affect the economy? [34d]
Topography controls how mountains respond to large earthquakes [34d]
Digital spirituality grows, but young people still rely on family and faith leaders [34d]
Premium customer, quickest service? Not so fast, at least in a world of agentic AI-driven services [34d]
Some bacteria build internal 'power cables' to extend respiration beyond the cell membrane [34d]
New set of international rules needed to protect health of fishing stocks, study shows [34d]
Krypton gas emerges as a new ingredient for quantum computing [34d]
Research helps NYC students aim higher in public high school applications [34d]
Artificial intelligence acts as an 'ideological chameleon' and may deepen political polarization [34d]
US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging [34d]
Largest catalog yet of how human cells read DNA shows how chemical marks alter genetic instructions [34d]
Lost 'mega-escarpment' across ancient USA may explain Grand Canyon's missing billion years [34d]
New study links bad bosses with greater work intensity [34d]
Mars attacks: How much dust from the red planet is safe to breathe? [34d]
Dying radio galaxies suggest a shorter, more dynamic afterlife for black hole jets [34d]
How to better forecast once-in-a-millennium weather events [34d]
Sustainable medical electronics can reduce environmental impact by up to 65% [34d]
Rethinking how we name and classify our human ancestors following recent evolutionary discoveries [34d]
Canada's AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained [34d]
Study suggests three-quarters of Indo-Pacific coral reefs could drown as sea levels rise [34d]
Rare satellite data reveal major limits in flood models [34d]
New photonic crystal method improves single-photon sources for quantum networks [34d]
Before COVID-19, children's likelihood of coming in contact with the US child welfare system had already decreased [34d]
How 35% of US employees are left on the margins [34d]
NASA's LRO images Falcon 9 crater on moon, learns new details [34d]
Existing drug could treat invasive canine oral tumors [34d]
Drug policies should communicate drug safety over user punishment [34d]
How can AI help identify pain when animals can't tell us they're suffering? [34d]
Curved surfaces reshape active materials, localizing vibrations near defects [34d]
A single asteroid impact may explain the appearance of Mars' moon Deimos [34d]
How workplace conflict expression shapes team performance [34d]
'Hidden stars' suggest that distant galaxies are much more massive than they appear [34d]
Hidden losses of amphibians and dragonflies in Berlin's municipal water supply [34d]
'Switchable' smart gel may pave way for next-gen drug delivery and sensing tech [34d]
Plants could transform how scientists measure the climate benefits of tidal marshes [34d]
Deep-learning approach rapidly predicts where metals bind within proteins [34d]
Grasshopper-inspired AI boosts emergency resource prediction [34d]
Working from home should be a right, not a reward [34d]
Secrets of a mystery mammal from Patagonia revealed at last [34d]
Sound-based traps reveal how fragile biomolecular droplets move, merge and change stiffness [34d]
Scientists 'see' nanoscale forces, providing evidence of electric fields at the air‑water interface [34d]
Moving nitrogen within pyridine opens a new path for molecular editing [34d]
Climate doom may discourage climate action, but there's a way to counter it [34d]
Genome-folding complex reveals a mechanism that helps establish neuron identity [34d]
The global race to make a practical quantum computer just took a big leap forward [34d]
Experiment shows how AI discoveries can shape human cultural evolution [34d]
Physicists entangle quantum memories across a record-breaking 420 km [34d]
Structural snapshots reveal key steps in switching on DNA replication [34d]
Right-leaning Canadians are losing trust in Canada's electoral process, study finds [34d]
An African bat overlooked for two centuries is confirmed in Europe [34d]
Q&A: By analyzing media coverage, researchers connect public sentiment hedge fund returns [34d]
Most mammal species discovered in the Global South since 1990 end up in Northern collections [34d]
A new mathematical tool to uncover 'who eats whom' in nature [34d]
Building real-time control for engineered biological systems [34d]
Lost 'botanical hotspot' identified at University of York campus [34d]
From the coasts to the plains, bird flu could threaten not just birds—but their homes [34d]
End-to-end design creates two low-cost materials to capture methane [34d]
AI and 8 million digitized plant specimens reveal how the climate is changing nature in large parts of the world [34d]
Cells remodel actin normally without coronins, challenging textbook view [34d]
Australian beekeepers can't tackle Varroa mite alone. Here's how we can help [34d]
Oral exams are making a comeback to stop AI cheating. But they have their own problems [34d]
Novel plastic turns into a gas when heated—then reforms once cooled [34d]
Fifteen years of data link plastic pollution to seabird population losses [34d]
Yellowstone's past droughts may signal less geyser activity and more wildfires [34d]
NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will feature a revolutionary antenna design [34d]
How healthy are our coral reefs? Researchers have built a tool to help find out [34d]
Five new wasp species discovered in Cyprus, including one named after Aphrodite [34d]
Robotic ocean glider reveals giant phytoplankton chains in the Mediterranean Sea [34d]
Plastic-webbed drifters track Sargassum mats for weeks or months at sea [34d]
Layered rock in India shows potential signs of microbial life dating to 3.5 billion years ago [34d]
The use of AI in biotechnology is changing faster than the rules governing either technology [34d]
New bone analysis challenges long-held theory on farming's arrival in Ireland and Great Britain [34d]
How only a few tree species drive Amazon forest recovery [34d]
Fiber-optic cable reveals hidden crevasses that could destabilize glaciers [34d]
Young people in public housing less likely to be involved in crime [34d]
Ancient Jomon DNA reveals a hidden Ice Age survival genetic toolkit [34d]
AI should transform the strategy process—but never make the final call, researcher argues [34d]
ISS hosts first spacewalk by a Frenchwoman [34d]
Dynamic surface reconstruction explains how copper sulfide catalysts tune CO₂ reduction [34d]
Boys are rarely taught to be caring. If they were, we could better prevent domestic violence [34d]
Young men are 'voicemaxxing' to sound more attractive. But women aren't impressed [34d]
Double spiral inside narwhal tusks may explain their resistance to bending [34d]
Why Korean 'aegyo' speech sounds cute: Adults raise vocal resonances to sound younger and smaller [34d]
Loud snoring—simulation reveals the physical mechanism that keeps so many of us awake at night [34d]
'Snooping' on dolphins offers acoustic clues to hotspots for food and friends [34d]
More than 5,000 little penguins will be vaxxed against bird flu. How will this protect them? [34d]
Retro phone trend reveals growing desire to disconnect [34d]
Long-range magnetic interactions govern how a ferrimagnet approaches its phase transition [34d]
The link between incoherent beliefs and conspiracism [34d]
Tomato roots reveal hidden steps in 400-million-year-old fungal partnership [34d]
Unusual superconductivity could emerge in valley-imbalanced rhombohedral graphene [34d]
Webb captures clearest image yet of the Lion Nebula [34d]
AI reconstructs hidden history of Earth's mantle flow from surface clues [34d]
Drier soils may turn late summer into prolonged extreme heat [34d]
New gene activity tool measures biological age of cells and screens aging-related compounds [34d]
Aerial imagery maps hurricane wind damage and shows stronger building codes work [34d]
Distinct neurons drive mice's social sounds and squeaks [34d]