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Phys.org / Hubble spies stellar blast setting clouds ablaze

This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a jet of gas from a forming star shooting across the dark expanse. The bright pink and green patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/81, a pair of Herbig-Haro ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Investigating HIV's hidden immune evasion strategy

A Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications has revealed how HIV can protect infected cells by altering the sugars on their surface, hindering the host immune system and avoiding detection.

Jan 12, 2026 in HIV & AIDS
Medical Xpress / Inside the battle for the future of addiction medicine

Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who'd been battling addiction for decades. Chronic pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street.

Jan 12, 2026 in Medications
Phys.org / The secrets of the invasive short-spined thrips

Lush homeowner gardens and thriving farms and nurseries across the globe are fighting a tiny invader considered one of the world's most damaging pests.

Jan 12, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Researchers uncover how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate

A research team at the University of Würzburg has, for the first time, uncovered how E. coli bacteria sneak into the prostate. The study opens the door to potential new treatments for bacterial prostatitis.

Tech Xplore / Superpixel-based virtual sensor grid enables robust, low-cost infrastructure monitoring

Structural health monitoring (SHM) and condition monitoring are crucial processes that ensure reliability and safety of engineering systems in a variety of fields, including aerospace, civil engineering, and industry. These ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / Are we giving AI a pulse through language?

Think, know, understand, remember. These are just a few of the mental verbs we use every day to describe what happens in a person's mind. But when using these same words to talk about artificial intelligence, we can unintentionally ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Machine learning & AI
Medical Xpress / Risk of death after surgery is significantly higher for residents of low-income neighborhoods, study reveals

New research from St. Michael's hospital found patients from the lowest-income areas in Ontario had a 43% higher chance of dying within 30 days of surgery compared to those from the highest-income areas in the province.

Jan 12, 2026 in Surgery
Phys.org / Smartphone use cuts into school hours, with social media leading the way

University of California, San Francisco investigators measured smartphone app activity during school hours among US adolescents and reported an average of 1.16 hours of use, with social media apps taking up the most time.

Jan 7, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Gut bacteria protect mice with influenza A from bacterial pneumonia, study finds

Select gut bacteria protect mice against post-influenza virus secondary bacterial pneumonia, according to a study published by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.

Phys.org / What Christian Reconstructionism is, and why it matters in US politics

Christian Reconstructionism is a theological and political movement within conservative Protestantism arguing that society should be governed by biblical principles, including the application of biblical law to both personal ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Designing atomic coordination for sustainable hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis

By fine-tuning the surroundings of single cobalt atoms, researchers reveal how tiny design changes can steer oxygen reactions toward cleaner and more efficient hydrogen peroxide production.

Jan 12, 2026 in Chemistry