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Tech Xplore / Novel membrane boosts water electrolysis performance in low-alkalinity conditions

As green hydrogen emerges as a key next-generation clean energy source, securing technologies that enable its stable and cost-effective production has become a critical challenge. However, conventional water electrolysis ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Energy & Green Tech
Phys.org / Shipping regulations to reduce pollution may have exacerbated Great Barrier Reef bleaching

Rising ocean temperatures have been implicated in mass coral bleaching events affecting the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). These events have been increasingly frequent, with major events occurring in 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024, ...

Jan 26, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels—a scenario ...

Jan 31, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau

Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Physics
Phys.org / First carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars discovered in Milky Way's companion

Using the Baryons Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) spectrograph, astronomers have discovered five new carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This is the first time such stars have been ...

Jan 26, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Medical Xpress / Why be concerned about radon?

Radon is an odorless, invisible radioactive gas. It's naturally released from rocks, soil and water—and it can get trapped inside homes, offices or schools. There's no known safe level of radon. There are no symptoms associated ...

Feb 1, 2026 in Health
Phys.org / Multiwavelength monitoring reveals distant blazar OP 313's behavior

An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from long-term multiwavelength monitoring of a distant blazar known as OP 313. Results of the new study, published January 18 on the arXiv preprint server, shed more ...

Jan 28, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Shining a light on sustainable sulfur-rich polymers that stay recyclable

For the first time, scientists have used ultraviolet (UV) light, a low-cost and readily available energy source, to successfully synthesize more sustainable and recyclable polymer materials. Led by green chemistry experts ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Chemistry
Tech Xplore / Study solves key micro-LED challenges, enabling 'reality-like' visuals for AR/VR devices

From TVs and smartwatches to rapidly emerging VR and AR devices, micro-LEDs are a next-generation display technology in which each LED—smaller than the thickness of a human hair—emits light on its own. Among the three ...

Tech Xplore / Brain-inspired hardware uses single-spike coding to run AI more efficiently

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, such as the models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT and various other online platforms, has grown exponentially over the past few years. Current hardware and electronic ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Hardware
Phys.org / How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil

Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space missions.

Jan 30, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Immunoglobulin G's overlooked hinge turns out to be a structural control hub

The lower hinge of immunoglobulin G (IgG), an overlooked part of the antibody, acts as a structural and functional control hub, according to a study by researchers at Science Tokyo. Deleting a single amino acid in this region ...

Jan 30, 2026 in Chemistry