Global warming will hike mental health woes, study finds | Nick Obradovich

Oct. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mental health problems will increase as temperatures rise due to climate change, a new study warns. The researchers said that over five years, a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degr ...

Researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard | Markus Gross

The 5G mobile radio standard still needs to be improved. Image: europeansanctions.com Oct. 10, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile comm ...

Affable apes live longer | Drew M Altschul

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests. A study of hundreds of captive chimpanze ...

A warmer climate will also be a drier climate, with negative impacts on forest growth | Peter B. Reich

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, ...

Global sea level could rise 15 meters by 2300 | Benjamin P. Horton

Parts of New Jersey and New York with 8 feet of sea-level rise. An almost 8-foot rise is possible by 2100 under a worst-case scenario, according to projections. The light-blue areas show the extent o ...

UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein

Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...

The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou

Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...

Nuclear Calendar -- October 4, 2018 | FCNL

Friends Committee on National Legislation October 4, 2018 Oct. 4 9:00-11:45 a.m., Senator Joni Ernst (IA); Dakota Wood, Heritage Foundation; Thomas Spoehr, Heritage Foundation, "Release of the 2019 I ...

Day-time naps help us acquire information not consciously perceived, study finds | E. Coulthard

Photo credit: myke., Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Oct. 4, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The age-old adage "I'll sleep on it" has proven to be scientifically sound advice, according to a new study that measured ch ...

China used tiny chips in US computers to steal secrets: report | Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley

Image source: ezzat.info Chinese spies reportedly used tiny chips in computer equipment in data centers to steal U.S. corporate secrets Oct. 4, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Tiny chips inserted in U.S. comput ...

New extremely distant solar system object found during hunt for Planet X | Scott Sheppard, Chad Trujillo and David Tholen

The orbits of the new extreme dwarf planet 2015 TG387 and its fellow Inner Oort Cloud objects 2012 VP113 and Sedna as compared with the rest of the Solar System. 2015 TG387 was nicknamed 'The Goblin' ...