Norway reports Europe’s first case of bird flu in a polar bear
Norwegian authorities on Tuesday announced that avian influenza has been documented in a polar bear for the first time in Europe, in the Svalbard region in the Arctic.
Physics
Help wanted: Australian conservation group seeks new koala rescue dog
An Australian animal welfare group is seeking a heroic dog with an appetite for adventure for a full-time position as a koala rescuer.
DR Congo fishermen resort to trawling plastic waste
The mighty Congo River feeds millions of people along its course through the vast Democratic Republic of Congo but fishermen near the capital now find more plastic than fish in their nets.
5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Peru, damaging buildings and injuring 27
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific region of southern Peru late Tuesday, injuring 27 people and damaging buildings, officials said. No deaths were reported.
Sri Lanka teeth reveal rising plant diets thousands of years before agriculture
A new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution examining human populations in Sri Lankan tropical rainforests shows that people’s consumption of plants began increasing thousands of years…
Japan to sell eels bred in captivity in ‘world first’
Eels bred in captivity will be sold in Japanese shops for the first time, in a move that could ease eventually pressure on the endangered fish, officials said Wednesday.
Evolutionary origin of the bipartite architecture of dissipative cellular networks
arXiv:2410.09447v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recently, plenty research has been done on discovering the role of energy dissipation in biological networks, most of which focus on the…
Quantum master equation approach for the multiphonon up-pumping model
arXiv:2605.19770v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A fully quantum multiphonon up-pumping model is proposed to characterize coherent energy transfer in energetic materials (EMs) subjected to external…
Spin-Induced Non-Markovian Time-Crystal-Like Dynamics and Fractal Scaling in the Bateman Dual Oscillator
arXiv:2605.19917v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Can a closed quantum system generate persistent time-crystal-like dynamics without external driving? Within the Bateman dual oscillator framework,…
Radiative PIC simulations of relativistic pair plasma: multiple interacting current sheets and turbulent evolution
arXiv:2605.19109v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Two-dimensional relativistic particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations of radiative magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas with multiple interacting current…