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Medieval Chinese skeleton may reveal first evidence of a brutal punishment
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Medieval Chinese skeleton may reveal first evidence of a brutal punishment

Ancient Chinese authorities used many creative ways to punish people, often with methods designed to mark them for life. One brutal example mentioned repeatedly in historical texts is cutting off a person's nose. However, archaeologists in China have never found skeletal evidence to prove that it occurred. But that may have changed following the discovery of a skeleton of a woman who lived in China about 700 years ago.

📅 2026-09-18 19:20:05    •    Phys.org
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Workplace AI adoption remains slow, informal and uneven, survey finds
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Workplace AI adoption remains slow, informal and uneven, survey finds

Despite the rapid development of generative AI and the high level of public interest, the use of AI in the day-to-day work of many employees is not yet the norm. This is the finding of the third wave of the Konstanz AI study, for which a total of 1,105 employees were surveyed in May 2026. The proportion of employees who use AI in their work rose only slightly from 35% to 38% compared with the previous year.

📅 2026-09-18 19:20:02    •    Phys.org
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Power breeds suspicion: In cases of wrongdoing, people point to leaders more quickly
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Power breeds suspicion: In cases of wrongdoing, people point to leaders more quickly

People with power are more quickly singled out as the culprit when something goes wrong but it is unclear who made the mistake. That is shown by a series of studies by researchers at the University of Amsterdam. In one, they analyzed almost 100,000 everyday conflicts on the Reddit page "Am I the Asshole?" According to the researchers, people with power are more readily blamed because others think they can "get away with anything." The findings are published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

📅 2026-09-18 19:00:01    •    Phys.org
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Amino acids and a bone mineral may help control magnesium implant breakdown, three student papers suggest
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Amino acids and a bone mineral may help control magnesium implant breakdown, three student papers suggest

Seeing a bachelor's thesis published in a scientific journal is relatively uncommon. For three theses linked to the same research group to result in scientific publications within just three months is downright rare. Yet that is exactly what has happened in Elsebeth Schröder's research group at the Division of Quantum Device Physics.

📅 2026-09-18 18:40:01    •    Phys.org
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Physicists extend the search for quantum black holes at the LHC
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Physicists extend the search for quantum black holes at the LHC

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The formation of these tiny, fleeting objects at the LHC represents one way theorists have sought to resolve anomalies in our understanding of the basic structure of spacetime, while the method used to look for them demonstrates a new way of searching for new particles.

📅 2026-09-18 18:20:07    •    Phys.org
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New thermal insulator outperforms any material found in nature
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New thermal insulator outperforms any material found in nature

Researchers have engineered a new material that is an extreme thermal insulator, is exceptionally stiff and can be printed as a thin film at large scales. The material has one of the lowest thermal conductivity profiles of any dense, or nonporous, material—approaching the theoretical limit of how good a material can be as a thermal insulator.

📅 2026-09-18 18:00:06    •    Phys.org
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Discovery of CRISPR's long lost ancestor may expand gene-editing toolkit
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Discovery of CRISPR's long lost ancestor may expand gene-editing toolkit

CRISPR may be a powerful technology for gene editing, but the system existed in bacteria long before scientists began using it. For billions of years, CRISPR has acted as a natural immune system in bacteria and other microbes, helping defend them against invading viruses. But now, two new studies, published in Science, describe a similar RNA-guided system that originated in the viruses themselves and appears to be a precursor to CRISPR.

📅 2026-09-18 17:20:12    •    Phys.org
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Background hums and buzzes affect human behavior, researcher finds
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Background hums and buzzes affect human behavior, researcher finds

Have you ever stopped and listened to the background sounds in a room you are in? The hum of the ventilation? The buzz of electricity? While most of the time we are barely aware of these sounds, Arthur Jinyue Guo, a researcher at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Rhythm, Time and Motion, has revealed that they nevertheless affect our behavior.

📅 2026-09-18 17:00:01    •    Phys.org
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MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them
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MIT researchers are mapping extreme weather risks — and building tools to act on them

Warming temperatures are fueling more extreme weather-related events — catastrophic floods, severe hurricanes and cyclones, and wildfires exacerbated by drought. But the tools used by local communities, emergency and public safety agencies, and insurance and risk markets have not kept pace with the up-to-date data and modeling for accurately predicting how these events will evolve.Addressing that shortcoming was one of five research areas selected for MIT’s 2022 Climate Grand Challenges, an ambitious effort to accelerate science-based solutions to climate problems. The area, titled “Preparing for a New World of Weather and Climate Extremes,” focuses on tools to help evaluate a location’s vul...

📅 2026-09-18 16:55:00    •    MIT News
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Why John Coltrane still matters
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Why John Coltrane still matters

Arts & Culture Why John Coltrane still matters John Coltrane.Photo illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer September 18, 2026 long read Jazz experts, scholars detail how iconic saxophonist, who would have turned 100 this year, reshaped most American musical genre Nearly 60 years after his last recording, trailblazing jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s legacy remains as vital as ever. Coltrane, who died of liver cancer at 40 in 1967, is widely credited with reshaping jazz in the late 1950s and early ’60s. The Pulitzer Prize board awarded him a posthumous special career citation in 2007. Fans will celebrate his 100th birthday on Sept. 23. Coltrane play...

📅 2026-09-18 16:48:23    •    Harvard Gazette
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Coffee on the nanoscale: Graphene oxide membrane removes half the caffeine while retaining key compounds
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Coffee on the nanoscale: Graphene oxide membrane removes half the caffeine while retaining key compounds

The humble coffee filter has the relatively simple job of letting the coffee through and leaving the grounds behind. But researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Carbon Science and Innovation (COE-CSI) are exploring whether a filter operating on the molecular scale can do something much more difficult: separate the caffeine from the coffee itself.

📅 2026-09-18 16:40:04    •    Phys.org
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Hubble spots an out-of-sync galaxy
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Hubble spots an out-of-sync galaxy

Though the spiral galaxy in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope seems serene, it hides a chaotic secret. This galaxy is NGC 4698, and it lies about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It's one of more than a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity.

📅 2026-09-18 16:40:02    •    Phys.org
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