https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. The first death from a months-long volcanic eruption on Spain's La Palma island in 2021 has been confirmed after a court ruled Monday that a man died from inhaling toxic gases from the volcano. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-spain-death-volcano-eruption.html Environment Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:20:51 EST news591895249 Spain in 2022 experienced the hottest year since records began, the country's national weather service said Monday, adding that several northern cities were also unseasonably warm on New Year's Day 2023. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-spain-hottest-year.html Environment Mon, 02 Jan 2023 15:20:32 EST news591895228 Unprecedented views of the interior of cells and other nanoscale structures are now possible thanks to innovations in expansion microscopy. The advancements could help provide future insight into neuroscience, pathology, and many other biological and medical fields. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-expansion-microscopy-methods-magnify-impact.html Biotechnology Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:48:17 EST news591882381 A new method can illuminate the identities and activities of cells throughout an organ or a tumor at unprecedented resolution, according to a study co-led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and the New York Genome Center. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-method-precisely-gene-proteins-tissues.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:45:31 EST news591882319 As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular pathways. MIT engineers have now coaxed cells to inscribe the history of these events in a long protein chain that can be imaged using a light microscope. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-self-assembling-proteins-cellular-memories.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Mon, 02 Jan 2023 11:00:03 EST news591548133 Cambodian premier Hun Sen on Monday ordered the creation of conservation zones on the Mekong river to protect critically endangered dolphins, after three were killed by fishing nets and lines last month. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-cambodian-leader-mekong-safe-zones.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 02 Jan 2023 07:17:52 EST news591866270 An ancient wooden sarcophagus that was featured at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after U.S. authorities determined it was looted years ago, Egyptian officials said Monday. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-looted-ancient-sarcophagus-egypt.html Archaeology Mon, 02 Jan 2023 07:13:31 EST news591866007 Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, but the world climate was still largely pre-industrial. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-alps-bleak-future-climate.html Earth Sciences Environment Sat, 31 Dec 2022 05:40:01 EST news591456827 After the driest start to any year on record, California will end 2022 with snow-capped mountains, soaked roadways and—in some places—flood warnings. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-miracle-mirage-atmospheric-rivers-california.html Environment Fri, 30 Dec 2022 13:01:03 EST news591627661 The damage caused by climate change over this past year was at times so immense it was hard to comprehend. In Pakistan alone, extreme summer flooding killed thousands, displaced millions and caused over $40 billion in losses. Fall floods in Nigeria killed hundreds and displaced over 1 million people. Droughts in Europe, China and the U.S. dried out once-unstoppable rivers and slowed the flows of commerce on major arteries like the Mississippi and the Rhine. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-climate-breakthroughs-net.html Environment Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:59:04 EST news591627542 It's slated to be a busy year of rocket launches from the Space Coast with a pace that could introduce some new names and set new records. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-rockets-spacecraft-flight-space-coast.html Space Exploration Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:56:03 EST news591627361 3M announced in mid-December that it's phasing out a family of harmful chemicals, but they're not going away. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-3m-phase-out-problem-pfas.html Environment Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:49:04 EST news591626941 U.S. government scientists warned federal regulators the South Fork offshore wind farm near the Rhode Island coast threatened the Southern New England Cod, a species so venerated in the region a wooden carving of it hangs in the Massachusetts state house. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-scientists-atlantic-farm.html Ecology Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:40:01 EST news591626197 From research trips to remote locations, to combing through the 80 million objects held in the Museum collections, each year scientists are adding to this extensive library of life. While many of these species will already be known to those who live alongside them, by giving them scientific names we can hopefully better protect them.    https://phys.org/news/2022-12-museum-scientists-species.html Ecology Paleontology & Fossils Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:35:12 EST news591625985 Two CubeSats, or small satellites, are on a quest to provide insight on space weather disturbances and the subsequent impact on communication signals. The dynamic duo, the Plasma Enhancements in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere Satellite (petitSat) and Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task (SPORT), arrived at the International Space Station on Nov. 27, 2022, as part of SpaceX's 26th commercial resupply mission for NASA. Both CubeSats deployed from the space station on Dec. 29, 2022, at 8:55 a.m. EST. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-cubesats-space-weather-disturbances.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:59:03 EST news591623941 New research in the journal Nature Aging takes a page from the field of renewable energy and shows that genetically engineered mitochondria can convert light energy into chemical energy that cells can use, ultimately extending the life of the roundworm C. elegans. While the prospect of sunlight-charged cells in humans is more science fiction than science, the findings shed light on important mechanisms in the aging process. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-solar-powered-cells-light-activated-proton-generate.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:55:03 EST news591623701 A powerful transmitter in remote Alaska sent long wavelength radio signals into space Tuesday with the purpose of bouncing them off an asteroid to learn about its interior. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-nasa-haarp-asteroid.html Planetary Sciences Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:09:04 EST news591620941 Nanophotonic light emitters are compact and versatile devices with wide-ranging applications in applied physics. In a new report now published on Science Advances, Ki Young Lee and a research team in physics and engineering in China and the UK, proposed to develop a topological beam emitter structure of a submicron-footprint size and high efficiency, with adaptable beam shaping capacity. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-explores-topological.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:00:01 EST news591617491 Artificial intelligence can be of great benefit underwater and SINTEF, in collaboration with the research center SFI Exposed, is developing systems that will help to boost fish farm safety and security under harsh sea conditions. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-deep-salmon-rough-seas.html Ecology Agriculture Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:55:05 EST news591620101 Nature has, over millions of years, evolved solutions to adapt to an array of challenges. As the challenges facing humanity become more complex, we are seeing inspiration being increasingly drawn from nature. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-human-technologies-naturefrom-velcro-cars.html Biotechnology Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:51:04 EST news591619861 In 2017, BBC's Match of the Day introduced a new statistic in their post-match summaries of Premier League matches. Expected goals, or xG, is designed to tell us how many goals a team should have scored based on the quality of the chances they created in a game. It is loved by amateur and professional statisticians alike who want to use data to analyze performance. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-history-statistics-soccer-actual-goals.html Mathematics Social Sciences Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:48:03 EST news591619682 Bottles. Plastic bags. Surgical facemasks. These are just some of the 29,029 items we found along the 180km Araromi coastline Nigeria in nine months while studying marine litter. The litter weighed in at a hefty 465.54kg. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-nigeria-coastal-litter-problem.html Environment Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:43:03 EST news591619381 Look up on a clear sunny day and you will see a blue sky. But is this the true color of the sky? Or is it the only color of the sky? https://phys.org/news/2022-12-sky-isnt-blueairglow-green-yellow.html Astronomy Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:40:03 EST news591619201 Imagine starting your work day with a fresh coconut juice perched by your laptop as you gaze over the ocean or a tropical rainforest. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-digital-nomad-visas-worlds.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:35:03 EST news591618901 A team of researchers at Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, has discovered that the film that makes up ordinary soap bubbles is cooler than the surrounding air. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the group describes experiments they conducted with soap bubbles. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-soap-cooler-air.html General Physics Soft Matter Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:30:03 EST news591617907 Basmati is the most popular specialty rice in the UK, adding extra flavor and subtlety to everything from curries to pilafs to kedgerees. Nearly three-quarters of the world's basmati is produced in India, and the UK buys 3% of it—plus substantial amounts from the second-largest producer, Pakistan. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-basmati-rice-authenticity-aiming-sub-standard.html Agriculture Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:29:03 EST news591618541 Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen color monitors on the walls of the Enterprise decades before we did the same in our living rooms. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-science-fiction-high-tech-chemistry.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:26:04 EST news591618361 A team of researchers from Università di Firenze, the University of South Florida, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University has found an incidence of a quasicrystal formed during an accidental electrical discharge. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-quasicrystal-accidental-electrical-discharge.html Earth Sciences Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:11:45 EST news591617502 By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) in China have detected 101 new open clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was presented in a paper published December 21 on the arXiv pre-print repository. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-chinese-astronomers-clusters.html Astronomy Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:11:26 EST news591617481 Although dark matter is a central part of the standard cosmological model, it's not without its issues. There continue to be nagging mysteries about the stuff, not the least of which is the fact that scientists have found no direct particle evidence of it. https://phys.org/news/2022-12-galaxy-rotation-gravity-explanation-dark.html Astronomy Fri, 30 Dec 2022 10:07:26 EST news591617241