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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 / Beamline measurements of unstable ruthenium nuclei confirm advanced nuclear models

A novel apparatus at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has made extremely precise measurements of unstable ruthenium nuclei. The measurements are a significant milestone in nuclear physics ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Scientists teach microorganisms to build molecules with light

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make products that are useful for humans and society. In a new proof-of-concept study, a team from the ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Chemistry
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
Medical Xpress / A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses' daily challenges of patients and families rolling their eyes

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don't know what you're doing—or even spit at you.

Jan 31, 2026 in Other
Phys.org / Powerful Milky Way stellar flares near black hole could refine galaxy center models

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there. Astronomers have detected ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / The infant universe's 'primordial soup' was actually soupy, study finds

In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light speed, creating a "quark-gluon plasma" that lasted for only a few millionths ...

Jan 28, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / Octopus numbers exploded around the UK's south-west coast in 2025. A new report explores this rare phenomenon

Cold spray whipped off the ropes as a diesel engine throbbed in the background. One by one, empty shellfish pots came over the side of the fishing boat, occasionally containing the remnants of crab and lobster claws and carapaces. ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Biology
Tech Xplore / New light-emitting artificial neurons could run AI systems more reliably

Over the past decades, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems that perform well on various tasks, including the analysis or generation of images, videos, audio recordings ...

Phys.org / Mini tornadoes spin out dried cellulose nanofibers

Researchers at the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are collaborating on a new way to dry non-aggregated cellulose nanofiber—a material that could replace ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Ashwagandha is having a moment—researchers want to take this shrub further

Ashwagandha is a small shrub that's having a big moment. Used in traditional Indian medicine for thousands of years, ashwagandha is now one of the most popular herbal supplements in the U.S. because of its professed benefits ...

Jan 31, 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