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Phys.org / Zebrafish rebuild damaged 'second brain' networks in nine days, offering clues for nerve repair

Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged gut nerves while humans largely cannot? Michigan State University researchers have developed a new research tool that allows them to remove gut neurons in zebrafish and watch them regenerate ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / Dragonfly aerial fights follow some simple rules

Dragonflies are renowned for their remarkable flying abilities. Male dragonflies often compete for territory and mating opportunities, engaging in fascinating in-flight battles. Researchers at Imperial College London and ...

Jul 19, 2026
Phys.org / Shaking atoms to bring black-hole quantum chaos into the lab

Physicists have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reproduce one of the most fascinating models in modern physics—linked to black holes, quantum chaos and exotic electronic materials—using ultracold atoms trapped in ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / Why some human brains can outlast other soft tissues after death

Why do some brains survive long after death when most other soft tissue decays? That's the question a research team led by Alexandra Morton-Hayward at the University of Oxford set out to answer.

Jul 20, 2026
Phys.org / Striped or checkered? Magnetic field influences competing electronic patterns in a graphene-like quantum material

In most everyday materials, such as copper, silver and silicon, the behavior of electrons is relatively predictable. In quantum materials, however, electrons can interact in complex ways, giving rise to collective electronic ...

Jul 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Blurred genome boundaries emerge as a new layer of Alzheimer's biology

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Washington have shed new light on Alzheimer's disease that could point to new ...

Jul 23, 2026
Phys.org / Jupiter-mass 'exomoon' orbiting brown dwarf challenges cosmic labels

Observations made with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our solar system, the newly found object ...

Jul 22, 2026
Medical Xpress / Black MS patients dying younger than white ones, study finds

Black people with multiple sclerosis (MS) die from the disease at a younger age than white people, a new study reports.

Jul 24, 2026
Phys.org / Peptide isolated from a Cerrado frog increases strawberry shelf life

Five minutes. That was the amount of time that Oso Grande strawberries remained in contact with the Ctx(Ile21)-Ha peptide—a molecule isolated from a frog native to the Brazilian Cerrado—in experiments conducted in Brazil ...

Jul 23, 2026
Medical Xpress / Exceptional memory in 80s defies simple Alzheimer's genetic risk explanation

Many people assume that some memory decline is an inevitable consequence of getting older. But a select group of older adults, known as "SuperAgers," reach their 80s and 90s while retaining memory performance as good as or ...

Jul 22, 2026
Phys.org / Juno takes temperature of Jupiter's fiery moon Io

NASA's Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar ...

Jul 22, 2026
Phys.org / New physics-based metric improves estimates of climate-driven cooling demand

New research led by atmospheric scientists at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa found that the century-old yardstick used across many industries to estimate air-conditioning and refrigeration energy demand—called cooling ...

Jul 23, 2026