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A new study on blue carbon in Australia highlights how Indigenous leadership, science and business can unite to protect coastal ecosystems while building long-term environmental and cultural knowledge.

Read more in PhysOrg: https://phys.org/news/2025-12-tropical-australian-standard-indigenous.html
January 10, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Virtual cells built from 4D #AI models and 'digital twins' could speed up drug discovery. #physorg phys.org/news/2026-09...
September 27, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Thank you Malcolm and Kathy for an amazing PhysOrg #GRC2025 conference! Besides cool science, the wonderful people and kindness in this community is why PhysOrg GRC always has a special place in my heart.❤️ 🙌👊🏼 Igor and I will do our best for 2027!
June 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Engineers have designed raven-inspired robot that can walk on land and jump into flight. I prefer real birds, though: techxplore.com/news/2024-12... 🧪🦅 #Physorg
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December 6, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Sea creatures keep dying in California waters: Now researchers have an answer phys.org/news/2025-04... via @physorg
Sea creatures keep dying in California waters: Now researchers have an answer
Sea creatures keep showing up dead in California waters, and researchers may have an answer as to why.
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April 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It us absolutely WILD to see fucking PhysOrg talking about this. Like...things are that bad.
September 18, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Cement recycling method could help solve one of the world's biggest climate challenges: techxplore.com/news/2024-05... #physorg 🧪👷🏢
Cement recycling method could help solve one of the world's biggest climate challenges
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a method to produce very low emission concrete at scale—an innovation that could be transformative in the transition to net zero.
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May 23, 2024 at 7:05 AM
📰 Archaeological techniques help document and preserve evidence of the 2022 Yahidne war crime in Ukraine

🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via PhysOrg

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How archaeology is preserving evidence of the Yahidne war crime
Archaeology is not just a powerful tool for revealing insights into the ancient past, but it can also be applied to more recent events. In a new paper published in the journal Antiquity, scientists…
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March 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM
How evolution explains autism rates in humans | PhysOrg phys.org/news/2025-09...

Paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
#openaccess #autism
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
AI meets game theory: How language models perform in human-like social scenarios | PhysOrg phys.org/news/2025-05...

Playing repeated games with large language models | Nature Human Behaviour | www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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June 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
📰 Isotope analysis reveals how social inequality can be read in our bones, shedding light on how wealth and status impacted diet in medieval England

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Isotopes reveal how social status shaped diet in medieval England
Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people from different social groups in medieval Cambridge ate markedly different…
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March 4, 2026 at 2:25 PM
How the 'creeping normality' of large language models is quietly reshaping the life sciences | PhysOrg phys.org/news/2026-07...

The creeping normality of AI in the life sciences | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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July 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Meet the aetosaurs, "tanks of the triassic". These cousins of the modern crocodile ruled the world before dinosaurs did: phys.org/news/2024-03... 🧪🐊 #physorg
Tanks of the triassic: New crocodile ancestor identified
Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes befor...
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March 19, 2024 at 8:26 AM
New book champions centuries-old vision for future of #marine #conservation "There's a certain kind of magic that happens in community-centered research, in bringing people together in this work," said Dr. Andrea Reid phys.org/news/2025-03... via @physorg #CIF
New book champions centuries-old vision for future of marine conservation
"People who grow up on islands think differently than people who grow up on continents." So begins a parable featured in "Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation," a new book edited by ...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Writing in #Nature, scientists at UC San Francisco describe how a viral "anti-CRISPR" protein sits on the bacteria's protein assembly line—which is known as a ribosome—and jams it as a #CRISPR protein named Cas12 begins to form. #physorg #UCSF phys.org/news/2026-05...
May 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Using this method, we determined that the eruption at Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha‘apai released ~61 Mt, slightly higher in magnitude than the yield of the Tsar Bomba. The paper is open access (link.springer.com/article/10.1...). #PhysOrg wrote a nice article about our work 🧪⚛️[5/n] phys.org/news/2022-08...
Tonga volcano eruption released more energy than the most powerful nuclear bomb
The eruption of the underwater volcano in Tonga that triggered a tsunami earlier this year (January 2022), released more energy than the Tsar Bomba—the most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated—accord...
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January 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"This discovery highlights how little we know about viruses infecting invertebrates in general and oysters in particular," said senior author Dr. Curtis Suttle. @virosphere.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca phys.org/news/2025-08... via @physorg
New mega RNA virus may hold the key to mass oyster die-offs
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada. The discovery serves as a reminder that growers should exercise caution when movi...
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August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
2,700-year-old standing stone may provide fresh evidence for King Hezekiah's religious reforms

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2,700-year-old standing stone may provide fresh evidence for King Hezekiah's religious reforms
A new study by Prof. Avraham Faust of Bar-Ilan University's Department of General History presents new evidence that may shed light on one of the most debated questions in the study of Israelite relig...
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June 17, 2026 at 1:23 AM
In a new study, researchers found that almost all #viruses with cyclical changes in abundance were most active at night—somewhat surprising when the team expected microbial behavior to pick up pace when light was available for #photosynthesis. #physorg phys.org/news/2026-03...
April 5, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Disappointing news; study finds Saturn-moon Titan to be a non-habitable environment, meaning there is little hope of finding life:
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Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable
A study led by Western astrobiologist Catherine Neish shows the subsurface ocean of Titan—the largest moon of Saturn—is most likely a non-habitable environment, meaning any hope of finding life in ...
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February 15, 2024 at 9:12 AM
I heard about phosphorus and zink depletion, but today I learnt that potassium depletion is another threat to global crop yields: phys.org/news/2024-02... 🧪🌽🥦🌿 #physorg
Potassium depletion in soil threatens global crop yields
Potassium deficiency in agricultural soils is a largely unrecognized but potentially significant threat to global food security if left unaddressed, finds new research involving researchers at UCL, Un...
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February 19, 2024 at 11:13 AM
#RobSelects paper of the week #j_a_c_s: Quantifying halogenophilic and chalcogenophilic nucleophilic substitution rates. #physorg https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c12463
December 16, 2024 at 6:48 PM
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms & Cell Cultures have conducted high-resolution investigations of the so-called cyanosphere, the "housing community" of #cyanobacteria. #physorg phys.org/news/2026-05...
May 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
"New study highlights need to address risk of continued global warming after net zero" | Press release (via #PhysOrg) on new #FrontiersInScience article (and my accompanying editorial) on zero emissions warming commitment: phys.org/news/2023-11...
New study highlights need to address risk of continued global warming after net zero
From scorching heat waves to torrential downpours and devastating storms, the disastrous effects of global warming are sweeping across the world. Considering the predicted outcome of burning fossil fu...
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November 14, 2023 at 2:15 PM