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Phys.org / 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. Captured by the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai'i, the image created a spectacular ...

Sep 2, 2026
Phys.org / 'Quiet' pulsar suddenly reveals three glitches in 15 years of observations

Using more than 15 years of observations from the Parkes radio telescope, astronomers detected three rotational glitches in the pulsar PSR J1637−4642—a young neutron star that had shown no signs of glitches since its discovery. ...

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / Extreme pressure turns blue pigment into record-long single-atom copper chains

As the electronics in our technology keep shrinking, traditional silicon-based chips are approaching their fundamental physical limits. Yet the wires connecting them might be able to shrink beyond conventional dimensions, ...

Sep 6, 2026
Medical Xpress / A single workout may help protect memory after a short night's sleep

Modern lifestyles, longer light exposure and constant digital distractions have pushed the world into a global sleep crisis—one that poses a major threat to public health. Sleep loss doesn't just leave us tired and irritable; ...

Sep 5, 2026
Medical Xpress / Experimental cancer drug could help millions of women battling osteoporosis and midlife weight gain

An experimental cancer drug could stop osteoporosis and help women stay slim after menopause, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. The study, published in npj Drug Discovery, reveals that a compound ...

Sep 7, 2026
Phys.org / Betelgeuse's atmosphere is becoming spotty and asymmetric—and a nearby companion could be shaping the pattern

For the first time since its dramatic dimming in 2020, a team of astronomers has observed the inner atmosphere of Betelgeuse using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). Led by Bill Dent at the University of Manchester, ...

Sep 4, 2026
Phys.org / FAST finds two mysterious hydrogen clouds with no visible stars

Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, discovered with China's FAST radio telescope, each contain roughly 3 million times the mass of the ...

Sep 5, 2026
Tech Xplore / Iron could make high-energy sodium-ion batteries last longer

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which charge and discharge by moving lithium ions between two electrodes known as the cathode and anode, remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Over the past decades, however, ...

Sep 5, 2026
Phys.org / The extinct American 'cheetah' was not a cheetah after all

With their slender bodies and long front legs, Miracinonyx trumani—often nicknamed the "American cheetah"—was long thought to be a North American analog of the African big cat. But in a new study published in the journal ...

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / Critically endangered pygmy raccoons observed making their own paper toys

Some of the most intriguing scientific breakthroughs happen when researchers aren't explicitly looking for them. Take, for example, the pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus), a critically endangered species that lives only on ...

Sep 4, 2026
Phys.org / How bird movements are helping researchers track a global virus

While the highly virulent avian influenza strain has only recently been discovered on Australian shores, researchers at Deakin University have been working behind the scenes for years, anticipating what an outbreak might ...

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / Particle shape and size predict asteroid strength, revealing Bennu's surface is 50 times weaker than ground coffee

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular asteroids, showing that their tensile strength can be predicted from the size and shape of their constituent ...

Sep 4, 2026