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Phys.org / Jupiter's hidden depths: Simulation suggests planet holds 1.5 times more oxygen than the sun

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on the gas giant—so thick that no spacecraft has been able to measure exactly what lies beneath.

Jan 14, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Emerging solar cell material sets new efficiency record

UNSW engineers have made a major step forward in the development of a new type of solar cell that could help make future solar panels cheaper, more efficient and more durable.

Jan 20, 2026 in Engineering
Phys.org / Drones reveal how feral horse units keep boundaries

For social animals, encounters between rival groups can often lead to conflict. While some species avoid this by maintaining fixed territories, others, like the feral horses, live in a "multilevel society" where multiple ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Single Brucella species found to drive livestock infections in Cameroon

As part of its ongoing efforts to combat brucellosis, a serious and often neglected disease endemic to many low- and middle-income countries around the world, a team of researchers from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary ...

Jan 21, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / North Atlantic deep waters show slower renewal as ocean ventilation weakens

The ocean is continuously ventilated when surface waters sink and transport, for example, oxygen and carbon to greater depths. The efficiency of this process can be estimated using the so-called water age, which describes ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Identifying corrosion initiation sites in aluminum alloys

Researchers at Tohoku University have developed a new technique to identify the initiation sites of a destructive process called pitting corrosion, which occurs when aluminum (Al) alloys are exposed to sodium chloride solutions. ...

Jan 21, 2026 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Radio telescopes on the moon could let us observe dozens of black hole shadows

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is remarkable, but they might be the only black holes we can observe. That is, unless we take radio astronomy ...

Jan 21, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Tech Xplore / Why AI has not led to mass unemployment

People have become used to living with AI fairly quickly. ChatGPT is barely three years old, but has changed the way many of us communicate or deal with large amounts of information.

Jan 21, 2026 in Business
Phys.org / Failed battery chemistry offers new way to destroy PFAS

Researchers in the lab of Asst. Prof. Chibueze Amanchukwu at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) have spent three years looking for failure, scouring the academic literature for ...

Jan 20, 2026 in Chemistry
Phys.org / Experiments bring Enceladus' subsurface ocean into the lab

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon, Enceladus. Published in Icarus, the results show that these conditions can readily ...

Jan 18, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Q&A: How AI changes NASA's search for life in outer space

Alicja Ostrowska's doctoral thesis "Life and AI at NASA" examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the way science is conducted within some of the world's most ambitious space projects. The study investigates how ...

Jan 21, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Unlocking genetic code of crop-damaging fungus paves way for better disease control

Researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have unlocked the most detailed genetic blueprint yet of a major soil-borne crop pathogen—an advance that paves the way for better crop disease management in ...

Jan 21, 2026 in Biology