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Phys.orgby Johan Joelsson2 Sept 2026
Young sunlike system reveals comets may carry water toward forming planets Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets—comets in other solar systems—orbiting a young...
Phys.orgby Thami Croeser; Simon Hodder2 Sept 2026
More trees are needed to cool down European cities in heat waves—but they must be planted near homes Heat waves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe's capital cities this...
Phys.orgby University2 Sept 2026
How cells teach themselves to move together Scientists have long wondered how cells organized into sheets begin to move together to form organs, especially when the sheets form closed, sphere-like...
Phys.orgby University2 Sept 2026
Health record analysis of one million cattle identifies early prevention as key to reducing feedlot respiratory deaths New research involving more than 1 million Australian feedlot cattle has found...
Phys.orgby Pensoft Publishers2 Sept 2026
New 'devil flower' species discovered in Thai national park Researchers have described a new species of leafless flowering plant found on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand...
Phys.orgby Durham University2 Sept 2026
Tracking emperor penguins from space For the first time, geographers from Durham University have used freely available satellite radar images to track emperor penguins through the polar...
Phys.orgby Karlsruhe Institute2 Sept 2026
German cities reveal warmer nights in districts with more non-German residents Urban heat adaptation will gain in importance as climate change progresses.
Phys.orgby Institute; Biodiversity2 Sept 2026
Exotic pines in the Southern Hemisphere grow faster and are more drought-resistant, study reveals A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that conifers planted outside their native...
Phys.orgby Columbia University2 Sept 2026
Electric fish keep from blinding themselves with these brain cells The brain cells you see in the above image help an African fish decode electric signals to spot prey, scan its murky surroundings...
Phys.orgby Birte Vierjahn2 Sept 2026
New clustering method uncovers hidden regularities in data One dataset, one model? This approach does not always produce the most useful insights, as a dataset often contains many different...
Phys.orgby Harvard Medical School2 Sept 2026
Mammalian genes can combine to make previously unknown mRNAs and proteins For decades, scientists have understood that each of the roughly 20,000 genes in the human body carries instructions for a...
Phys.orgby Stanford University2 Sept 2026
Why lower-class workers are less likely to negotiate for higher pay—and how it could cost some nearly $800,000 Michele Gelfand has studied and taught negotiation for years.
Phys.orgby University2 Sept 2026
Wind damage can trigger years of forest vulnerability Windstorms are among the most important natural disturbances in Northern Europe, where they cause extensive tree mortality, timber losses and...
Phys.orgby Carla Cantor2 Sept 2026
Young people often try to help in gun-related crises—but they need better tools Nearly three-quarters of young people who witnessed or became aware of a firearm-related danger tried to help in some...
Phys.orgby Kelly Izlar; Syd Morgan2 Sept 2026
Chemists design extra-sticky adhesives that degrade on command A good adhesive is unequivocally sticky.
Phys.orgby NSF NOIRLab2 Sept 2026
Hawai'i high school students name image of glittering galaxy pair Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola is the Hawaiian name given to NGC 7253—a pair of spiral galaxies caught in each other's gravity.
Phys.orgby Tohoku University2 Sept 2026
Bio-based plastic turns into fertilizer after use Plastic waste is one of the world's fastest-growing environmental problems.
Phys.orgby Murdoch University2 Sept 2026
DNA testing shows what's really in Western Australian fish and chip shop 'shark' filets Shark products sold at Western Australian fish-and-chips shops are often labeled too ambiguously or, in some...
Phys.orgby University2 Sept 2026
A 13-meter rocket hit the Moon: Tasmanian researchers helped track it there A 13-meter (43-foot) Falcon 9 rocket stage struck the moon last month, leaving a crater about 20 meters (66 feet) wide.
Phys.orgby Sam Jarman2 Sept 2026
Physicists test the weak equivalence principle in an orbiting space station Sam Jarman Author The weak equivalence principle (WEP) is central to Einstein's general relativity.
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