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Phys.org / Close-up images show how stars explode in real time

Astronomers have captured images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their eruption and in unprecedented detail. The breakthrough provides direct evidence that these explosions are more complex than ...

Dec 5, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
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
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
Phys.org / Black hole ejects matter at 20% light speed in sun-like magnetic event

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole NGC 3783 at speeds reaching up to 20% of the speed of light. During a 10-day observation, mainly ...

Dec 9, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / New sensor technology can detect life-threatening complications after intestinal surgery at an earlier stage

An interdisciplinary research team from Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Rostock University Medical Center (UMR) and Dresden University Hospital has developed an innovative, implantable and fully absorbable sensor ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Surgery
Phys.org / Reading the 'light fingerprints' of dead satellites

There are already tens of thousands of pieces of large debris in orbit, some of which pose a threat to functional satellites. Various agencies and organizations have been developing novel solutions to this problem, before ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / When it comes to language, context matters: How your brain deciphers sarcasm, metaphors and tone

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are said. If it's pouring rain and someone remarks on the "lovely weather," you won't understand their ...

Dec 10, 2025 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / NASA loses contact with its Maven spacecraft orbiting Mars for the past decade

NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade.

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / New 'remarkably tame' tinamou species discovered in Amazon mountains may already be at risk of extinction

The Amazon rainforest has yielded yet another new species, according to a recent study published in Zootaxa. Discovered in the mountains of the Serra do Divisor National Park (SDNP) in Brazil, this ground-dwelling bird has ...

Dec 6, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / Horseshoe crab fossil reveals early mass-burial event and ancient microbial attack

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp—some 50 to 70 million years before the age of dinosaurs.

Dec 9, 2025 in Biology
Phys.org / The solution to finding an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1 e

The hunt is on for terrestrial exoplanets in habitable zones, and some of the most promising candidates were discovered almost a decade ago about 40 light-years from Earth. The TRAPPIST-1 system contains seven terrestrial ...

Dec 11, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Research reveals game avatars offer safe alternatives for exploring and expressing gender identities

Videogame avatars can offer safer alternatives for exploring and expressing gender identities for transgender and gender diverse people, according to a new research review.

Dec 12, 2025 in Other Sciences