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Phys.org / Where did southern Australia's record-breaking heat wave come from?

Millions of people in southeastern Australia are sweating through a record-breaking heat wave. The heat this week is likely to be one for the history books. The heat began on Saturday January 24th. On Australia Day, three ...

Jan 27, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / What is dark energy? Research shines light on space's biggest question

Dark energy is still one of the greatest cosmic mysteries. For all the time, money and telescopes that humanity has used to uncover its nature, scientists are still asking a fundamental question: What is dark energy?

Jan 26, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades

New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already been restored, comprising ...

Jan 27, 2026 in Earth
Tech Xplore / All-powerful AI isn't an existential threat, according to new research

Ever since ChatGPT's debut in 2023, concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) potentially wiping out humanity have dominated headlines. New research from Georgia Tech suggests that those anxieties are misplaced. "Computer ...

Jan 26, 2026 in Business
Phys.org / Radical transparency is required to scale carbon dioxide removal, expert says

Last week, Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) Scientific Leadership Team member and Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Noah Planavsky co-authored a peer-reviewed comment in npj Climate Action titled "The importance ...

Jan 26, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Webb reveals five-galaxy merger just 800 million years after the Big Bang

Astronomers at Texas A&M University have discovered a rare, tightly packed collision of galaxies in the early universe, suggesting that galaxies were interacting and shaping their surroundings far earlier than scientists ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / AI enables a who's who of brown bears in Alaska

A team of scientists from EPFL and Alaska Pacific University has developed an AI program that can recognize individual bears in the wild, despite the substantial changes that occur in their appearance over the summer season. ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / 2D discrete time crystals realized on a quantum computer for the first time

Physical systems become inherently more complicated and difficult to produce in a lab as the number of dimensions they exist in increases—even more so in quantum systems. While discrete time crystals (DTCs) had been previously ...

Jan 29, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / The first headbutting paravian: Bird-like dinosaur likely used thick skull to win over mates

Whether it's digging up weathered bones from a paleontological site or reexamining forgotten trays in museum and university collections, the study of dinosaurs still throws up something new.

Jan 29, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / One of Earth's most abundant organisms is surprisingly fragile

A group of ocean bacteria long considered perfectly adapted to life in nutrient-poor waters may be more vulnerable to environmental change than scientists realized. The bacteria, known as SAR11, dominate surface seawater ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / The devastation of island land snails: Pacific leads global wave of extinctions, researchers find

A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author Robert Cowie of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Biology