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AI won't ever make a historically accurate film—but it could help archaeology create better stories
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AI won't ever make a historically accurate film—but it could help archaeology create better stories

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was up in arms about the recent adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" by director Christopher Nolan, which he heavily criticized for its diverse casting and accused of lacking historical accuracy. Claiming he wanted to show that artificial intelligence could bypass traditional Hollywood studios and deliver a story "historically accurate and true to the art of Homer" at a fraction of the cost, he set his AI Grok Imagine to the task.

📅 2026-11-06 19:20:11    •    Phys.org
Redefining honesty in a crisis: Why truth alone is not enough
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Redefining honesty in a crisis: Why truth alone is not enough

When a company suffers a cyberattack, leaks customer data or faces a major public scandal, telling the truth is essential. But new research suggests it is not enough on its own: organizations also need to communicate early, treat people with respect and show how they intend to put things right.

📅 2026-11-06 19:00:14    •    Phys.org
'Mega heat waves' strengthened by interaction between soil moisture, atmospheric pressure and temperature
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'Mega heat waves' strengthened by interaction between soil moisture, atmospheric pressure and temperature

A new study has found that a self-reinforcing interaction between temperature, soil moisture and atmospheric pressure is being triggered at high temperatures, making extreme heat waves 10% hotter than they would otherwise be. The study was published in Science Advances and led by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

📅 2026-11-06 19:00:08    •    Phys.org
Fruit fly study offers clues to insect survival in a hotter, drier world
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Fruit fly study offers clues to insect survival in a hotter, drier world

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified a specialized lipid barrier in the fruit fly pupa that protects against dehydration in dry and hot environments. Their findings also expose the lipid barrier's limit, suggesting that insects in some regions of the world may struggle to adapt to climate change.

📅 2026-11-06 19:00:02    •    Phys.org
Smart packaging film 'lights up' under UV as meat loses freshness
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Smart packaging film 'lights up' under UV as meat loses freshness

Food spoilage causes chemical changes that are not always easy to detect by appearance alone. To provide a clearer indication of freshness and quality, researchers at Kyushu University have developed a smart packaging film that changes color and glows under ultraviolet (UV) light as meat loses freshness. Tested with refrigerated mutton, the film responds to compounds released during spoilage, offering two ways to track changes in food quality. The findings are published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.

📅 2026-11-06 18:40:01    •    Phys.org
The worse climate change gets, the harder it becomes to stop it
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The worse climate change gets, the harder it becomes to stop it

This year may be seen as a turning point in the climate crisis. The U.N. has accepted that global warming is going to exceed 1.5°C, while climate scientists have concluded that the rate of warming has effectively doubled over the past decade.

📅 2026-11-06 18:20:01    •    Phys.org
SynFit guides enzyme engineering by balancing several useful traits at once
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SynFit guides enzyme engineering by balancing several useful traits at once

Enzymes are biology's tiny chemists. They help build, break and rearrange molecules quickly and precisely. In the lab, scientists have long put enzymes to work making useful chemicals. But nature's enzymes cannot do every reaction a researcher might want. Sometimes scientists need an enzyme to take on a job it did not evolve to do. That's where enzyme engineering comes in—researchers make changes to an enzyme, test how those changes affect what the enzyme does and look for versions that work better.

📅 2026-11-06 18:00:03    •    Phys.org