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Phys.org / Failed supernova provides clearest view yet of a star collapsing into a black hole

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's transformation into a black ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Researchers develop metastasis prevention therapy based on glycan targeting

A research team led by Prof. Kenward Vong, Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemistry at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has recently achieved a significant breakthrough by bioengineering ...

21 hours ago in Oncology & Cancer
Medical Xpress / Specialized microscopy enables researchers to visualize the dynamics of myelin swellings

An international research team has gained new insights into the dynamics of myelin swellings in the brain. Myelin swellings are considered as the precursor of lesions in the brain of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). MS ...

23 hours ago in Neuroscience
Phys.org / Researchers develop high-resolution daily atmospheric CO₂ dataset for China

Researchers from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, have developed a high-resolution daily atmospheric ...

16 hours ago in Earth
Medical Xpress / Pregnant women in Brazil unaware of their rights suffer violations in the workplace

Despite clear laws that guarantee the protection of pregnant women and new mothers in the workplace, many Brazilian women still experience a reality far from what is stipulated on paper. A study involving 652 women in the ...

23 hours ago in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Medical Xpress / Infection prevention measures prove important in NICU, study shows

A new study conducted by clinician-scientists at a dozen neonatal intensive care units, or NICUs, across North America found that enhanced infection prevention measures were highly effective in reducing viral spread among ...

23 hours ago in Pediatrics
Medical Xpress / Researchers find link between higher levels of air pollution and dengue-related deaths

A research team including a Keele scientist has found that countries with higher levels of air pollution were also more likely to have higher numbers of deaths from dengue, a rapidly expanding disease spread by mosquitoes. ...

23 hours ago in Health
Medical Xpress / State-level abortion restrictions associated with increased maternal deaths

The increased number of state-level abortion restrictions in the U.S. was associated with a parallel increase in maternal deaths between 2005 and 2023, according to new research presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal ...

23 hours ago in Obstetrics & gynaecology
Phys.org / The war after the war: How violence is passed down through generations

From Gaza to Ukraine and from Sudan to Myanmar, war rages across the globe, exacting its gravest toll on those least implicated in the violence: children. Today, an estimated 520 million children worldwide—or one in six—live ...

17 hours ago in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Scientists uncover Iron Age origins of Vietnamese tooth blackening practices

Not everyone wants their teeth to be white and gleaming. Tooth blackening is a recognized part of modern Vietnamese culture, and a recent discovery hints that the roots of this practice may stretch all the way back to the ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Rare Red Rock sunflower at high risk of extinction, petition argues

About 3 million people visit Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas every year, but few have noticed the tiny yellow sunflower that has called it home for centuries. It may face extinction without federal protection, two groups ...

19 hours ago in Biology
Dialog / Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications

Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for nearly all observed global surface warming—slightly above 1 °C—since ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Earth