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Phys.org / Root microbes could help oak trees adapt to drought

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing in Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland found that the trees' above- and below-ground microbiomes were resilient ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Biology
Phys.org / Mauled by a bear, 27,500 years ago: What a lavish teen burial reveals

A teenager's skeleton lay supine in a shallow pit on a bed of red ocher, his remains adorned with several ivory pendants, four perforated antler batons, mammoth ivory pendants, and a flint blade, his skull decorated with ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / How giant galaxies could form just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Keeping an eagle eye on carbon stored in the ocean

Geologic reservoirs that trapped petroleum for millions of years are now being repurposed to store the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. New research is improving how we monitor this storage and verify how much CO2 these reservoirs ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Why asthma can hit women harder: Estrogen-linked IL-33 ramps up lung inflammation

Asthma affects millions of people worldwide, and adult women experience the condition more frequently—and often more severely—than men. Symptoms can also fluctuate during puberty, pregnancy and menopause, yet the biological ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Immunology
Phys.org / Study of 400 children in five societies finds culture shapes how kids cooperate

How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child.

Feb 8, 2026 in Other Sciences
Medical Xpress / Distinct resilience profiles predict psychological outcomes during adversity, study reveals

Higher self-reported levels of resilience were linked to lower anxiety and depression and better coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in PLOS One by Joseph Anthony Pettit of Bangor ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / The wild physics that keeps your body's electrical system flowing smoothly

Building on their pioneering 2018 research into how some of the body's cells, such as neurons and cardiac tissue, communicate via ions that flow through cellular channels, chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / How blood biomarkers can predict trauma patient recovery days in advance

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have developed a way to predict how trauma patients will recover, days before complications come to fruition, by analyzing the molecules in their blood. In their study published ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Endocrinology & Metabolism
Phys.org / Politics could threaten future of national parks as 'big tourism' interests take over

National parks are public conservation assets, created to protect biodiversity and provide affordable access to nature for all. But, new research published in npjBiodiversity highlights a growing global issue: According to ...

Feb 12, 2026 in Earth
Dialog / Neural crest cells: Miniature electric muscles that colonize embryonic organs

Neural crest cells are a population of stem cells that invade the embryo in early development. They play a big role in what you look like: the pigments of your eyes, of your skin, and the bone structure of your face are all ...

Feb 10, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / Doctors discover a simple method to predict the risk of brain tumor recurrence

Meningioma is the most common type of brain tumor. It does not develop in the brain tissue itself, but on the inside of the meninges, the membranes that surround the brain. In most cases, a meningioma is benign. However, ...

Feb 11, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer