What students gain and lose as AI chatbots take over parts of university teaching
Phys.orgby Thomas Corbin·8 Sept 2026
What students gain and lose as AI chatbots take over parts of university teaching Universities are increasingly introducing artificial intelligence (AI) teaching tools into classrooms.
JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars
Phys.orgby Shreejaya Karantha·8 Sept 2026
JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars Shreejaya Karantha Author A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually...
Vaccinating dogs, not people, holds key to ending rabies deaths in Kerala, India
Phys.orgby University·8 Sept 2026
Vaccinating dogs, not people, holds key to ending rabies deaths in Kerala, India A new study has found that expanding dog vaccination, rather than introducing routine pre-exposure vaccination for...
More than $1 million in elephant ivory advertised online in Australia
Phys.orgby University·8 Sept 2026
More than $1 million in elephant ivory advertised online in Australia While most Australians assume the ivory trade ended decades ago, Adelaide University research has found an active collectors'...
Kauai on tornado watch as Hurricane Lowell nears Hawaiian Islands
Phys.orgby Andrew Zinin·8 Sept 2026
Kauai on tornado watch as Hurricane Lowell nears Hawaiian Islands Residents of Kauai were warned to watch for tornadoes late Monday as Hurricane Lowell edged toward the westernmost Hawaiian Islands...
Melting Svalbard glaciers may flush ancient methane from rocks beneath the ice
Phys.orgby Ic·8 Sept 2026
Melting Svalbard glaciers may flush ancient methane from rocks beneath the ice Meltwater rivers flowing from Svalbard glaciers are carrying ancient methane from rocks beneath the ice into the open...
Super-resolution imaging reveals that cohesin prevents local mixing of compact, active genome domains
Phys.orgby Research Organization; Systems·8 Sept 2026
Super-resolution imaging reveals that cohesin prevents local mixing of compact, active genome domains The human genome is about two meters (6.6 feet) long, yet it is folded inside a cell nucleus...
Praying for rain as fires, haze plague Indonesian Borneo
Phys.orgby Mariëtte le Roux; Satya Adhi·8 Sept 2026
Praying for rain as fires, haze plague Indonesian Borneo Wildfires ravaging the Indonesian part of Borneo are choking communities as far away as Malaysia with putrid haze, testing the resources and...
Worm's radical transformation shows metamorphosis can change the functions of cells
Phys.orgby Stanford University·8 Sept 2026
Worm's radical transformation shows metamorphosis can change the functions of cells A squishy worm that starts its life as something of a floating head in the Pacific Ocean is changing what...
AI model decodes cell signaling fingerprints across diverse cell types
Phys.orgby Whitehead Institute·8 Sept 2026
AI model decodes cell signaling fingerprints across diverse cell types As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once "blank slate" cells begin to take on more specialized...
Rearranged polymer chains create degradable materials with potential for stronger, tougher packaging
Phys.orgby Virginia Tech·8 Sept 2026
Rearranged polymer chains create degradable materials with potential for stronger, tougher packaging What if the key to making stronger, more sustainable plastics isn't changing their ingredients...
Changing the antibiotic playbook to catch an ESKAPE artist
Phys.orgby Manasasri Muralidharan·8 Sept 2026
Changing the antibiotic playbook to catch an ESKAPE artist Nearly a century ago, a single colony of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) helped launch the antibiotic age.
Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry
Phys.orgby Shinya Kato·8 Sept 2026
Early Earth's auroral belts may have formed a natural ion-beam reactor for prebiotic chemistry We usually think of auroras as beautiful lights in the night sky.
Park rangers and residents speak up to save Togo's last national park
Phys.orgby Nico Arcilla·7 Sept 2026
Park rangers and residents speak up to save Togo's last national park A few years ago, I drove with an old friend from Togo, West Africa, towards the country's last remaining large protected area...
AI governance model inspired by Pope Leo XIV aims to put ethics first
Phys.orgby University·7 Sept 2026
AI governance model inspired by Pope Leo XIV aims to put ethics first Researchers at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) and the University of Eastern Finland have developed a new...
Bumpy battery surfaces can masquerade as nanoscale ion pathways, misleading material design
Phys.orgby The Korea Advanced Institute; Technology·7 Sept 2026
Bumpy battery surfaces can masquerade as nanoscale ion pathways, misleading material design A signal that appears to show ions moving inside a battery may, in fact, be an illusion caused by an...
War drama Pressure depicts D‑day's weather forecast—what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems
Phys.orgby Andrew Charlton-Perez; Ed Hawkins·7 Sept 2026
War drama Pressure depicts D‑day's weather forecast—what we found when we recreated the challenge using modern systems Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather...
Survey of young researchers raises concerns over future of science in U.S.
Phys.orgby Alvin Powell·7 Sept 2026
Survey of young researchers raises concerns over future of science in U.S. One-third of young scientists who had been planning careers in academic research changed their minds in the spring of...
From strays to territory bosses: Epigenetics makes cheetahs adaptable
Phys.orgby Cora Knoblauch·7 Sept 2026
From strays to territory bosses: Epigenetics makes cheetahs adaptable The findings of a new study led by the Leibniz-IZW on Namibian free-ranging cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus jubatus) demonstrate...
A child's first 5 years set them up for life. African study explores how to target education spending
Phys.orgby Katherine Theiss; Subha Mani·7 Sept 2026
A child's first 5 years set them up for life. African study explores how to target education spending The first five years of life lay an important foundation for children's future schooling...
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