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Phys.org / Westerlund 1: First evidence of particle outflow from a young massive star cluster

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of 10 solar masses or more. Such massive stars often drive powerful winds; the combined action of all ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / The rhythm of swarms: Tunable particles synchronize movement like living organisms

A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and Forschungszentrum Jülich has achieved the first fully tunable experimental realization of a long predicted "swarmalator" system. The study, published in Nature Communications, ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Physics
Phys.org / Modified bacterial transport system imports artificial amino acids for efficient designer protein creation

Researchers from ETH Zurich have succeeded in introducing large quantities of unnatural amino acids into bacteria, enabling the creation of innovative and highly efficient designer proteins. These can be used as more efficient ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Ultra-thin nanomembrane device forms soft, seamless interface with living tissue

Researchers have developed a new class of ultra-thin, flexible bioelectronic material that can seamlessly interface with living tissues. They introduced a novel device called THIN (transformable and imperceptible hydrogel-elastomer ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Nanotechnology
Phys.org / Sub-Saharan Africa has lost 24% of its biodiversity since pre-industrial times, study finds

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major African-led study revealing that sub-Saharan Africa has already lost 24% of its biodiversity since pre-industrial ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Estimating stellar-mass compact object accretion in AGN disks with a new method

A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with other researchers, has developed a new method to estimate how stellar-mass compact objects (COs)—including black ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Simulation may illuminate safer cannabinoid drugs

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may still have pharmaceutical value if researchers could nail down the causes of those side effects. A ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Direct observation reveals 'two-in-one' roles of plasma turbulence

Producing fusion energy requires heating plasma to more than one hundred million degrees and confining it stably with strong magnetic fields. However, plasma naturally develops fluctuations known as turbulence, and they carry ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Physics
Medical Xpress / Uncovering the why behind cleft lip and palate with live imaging and gene editing

Every face is unique. Genetics helps to determine our features, but sometimes genes have errors which, in early fetal development, can result in babies with facial differences such as a cleft lip or cleft palate. If not treated, ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Reverse genetics open new path to norovirus vaccine and drug development

Norovirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. However, research progress into antiviral treatments and vaccines has been hindered by the absence of a ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Genetics
Medical Xpress / Key protein behind necroptotic cell death could drive new treatment strategies

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a protein that causes human cell membranes to break open in a form of inflammatory programmed cell death called necroptosis. Their findings, reported in Nature, ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Medical research
Phys.org / Satellite tracking helps map massive rupture of 2025 Myanmar earthquake

The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault systems behave, including California's San Andreas Fault. Earthquakes are notoriously messy and complex, ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Earth