Science Daily News

• A genetic tree as a movie: Moving beyond the still portrait of ancestry March 27, 2025
  Researchers have created a way to see your family tree as a movie rather than a still portrait by tracing where your ancestors moved across the globe over time. The statistical method can also be used to model disease spread and studying how animals move through geographic regions.
• Melting ice, more rain drive Southern Ocean cooling March 27, 2025
  Researchers found increased meltwater and rain explain 60% of a decades-long mismatch between predicted and observed temperatures in the ocean around Antarctica.
• Physics of irregular objects on inclined planes probed March 27, 2025
  How gravity causes a perfectly spherical ball to roll down an inclined plane is part of elementary school physics canon. But the world is messier than a textbook. Scientists have sought to quantitatively describe the much more complex rolling physics of real-world objects. They have now combined theory, simulations, and experiments to understand what happens […]
• A lighter, smarter magnetoreceptive electronic skin March 27, 2025
  Imagine navigating a virtual reality with contact lenses or operating your smartphone under water: This and more could soon be a reality thanks to innovative e-skins. A research team has developed an electronic skin that detects and precisely tracks magnetic fields with a single global sensor. This artificial skin is not only light, transparent and […]
• Is AI the new research scientist? Not so, according to a human-led study March 27, 2025
  Researchers asked generative AI to write a research paper. While adept at some steps, it wholly failed at others.