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Phys.org / Meet the springtails: Little-known fantastic beasts that live everywhere on Earth

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters underground—live tiny critters that have shaped the health of our planet for hundreds of millions ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Biology
Medical Xpress / New vulnerability identified in aggressive breast cancer

Researchers at University of California San Diego have identified a previously unrecognized treatment target for triple‑negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Their new study reveals ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Oncology & Cancer
Phys.org / Fire risks associated with solar panel installations evaluated

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) conducted a series of large-scale tests to investigate factors that affect flame spread beneath photovoltaic (PV) panel installations on flat, commercial and industrial rooftops. The research ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Aligning games and sets in determining tennis matches

Under tennis's rules, the winner of a match is the player who wins the greater number of sets. In the majority of cases, that is also the player who wins the most games, too—but not always.

Jan 12, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail, research shows

The small, spongy black beads used as fill material in most artificial turf fields are called crumb rubber, which has long been touted as a major win for recycling. However, conflicting studies have alternately identified ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth
Medical Xpress / Eating less ultraprocessed food supports healthier aging, new research shows

Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet—and this shift leads to improvements across several key markers related to how the body regulates ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Health
Tech Xplore / Humanoid robots or human connection? What Elon Musk's Optimus reveals about our AI ambitions

When Elon Musk talks about robotics, he rarely hides the ambition behind the dream.

Jan 12, 2026 in Robotics
Medical Xpress / Treasure trove of data on aging now publicly accessible

One of the most important gerontological data sets has been opened to the research community. The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are accessible via the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / Investors are shifting to 'positive' environmental, social and governance screening, research finds

Investors show a stronger preference for positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) screening, especially in times of uncertainty in stock markets, according to a new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University.

Jan 12, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science

A 30-minute stroll across New York's Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the US president ever found himself inside the museum he could see the Cape York meteorite: a 58-ton ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / Rain one minute, heat wave the next: How climate 'whiplash' drives unpredictable fire weather

After a weekend of extreme heat and windy conditions, more than 30 blazes were still burning in Victoria and New South Wales as of Sunday evening, including major fires in the Otways, near the town of Alexandra in central ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth
Phys.org / As the Arctic warms up, the race to control the region is growing ever hotter

Donald Trump and his senior officials insist that Greenland must become part of the US. This is for national security purposes, they say, maintaining that Denmark, of which Greenland is a constituent part, is not investing ...

Jan 12, 2026 in Earth