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Phys.org / Curiosity sends holiday postcard from Mars

Team members working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover created this "postcard" by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning periods that occurred on both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / One of the rarest animal adaptations in the world happens in the winter in Colorado

Winter is hard, and for wildlife in Colorado, it's even harder. To survive, many species have developed adaptations over hundreds of thousands of years that allow them to weather the storms, including hibernation, thicker ...

Dec 31, 2025 in Biology
Tech Xplore / Focus apps claim to improve your productivity. Do they actually work?

It's hardly a revelation that we're living in an era of distraction and smartphone addiction. Our phones interrupt us, hijack our attention, and tempt us into scrolling. Even when we aren't interacting with them, their mere ...

Jan 3, 2026 in Consumer & Gadgets
Medical Xpress / Tangled scar tissue may set stage for dangerous placenta condition

Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually, posing a major cause of maternal death. Yet why it happens is still not well understood. Placenta ...

Medical Xpress / What color should I repaint my home? Ask a psychologist

I knew there would be an argument. The room had gone eerily quiet. "Isn't it about time," my partner began, "that we freshened this place up a little?"

Jan 2, 2026 in Psychology & Psychiatry
Phys.org / What were books like in ancient Greece and Rome?

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like?

Jan 2, 2026 in Other Sciences
Phys.org / The interstellar comet that's spilling its secrets

When 3I/ATLAS swept past the sun in late October 2025, it became only the third confirmed visitor from interstellar space ever detected. Unlike the mysterious 'Oumuamua, which revealed almost nothing about itself during its ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Ancient African bedrock reveals the violent beginnings of life on our blue planet

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine capable of roaming Earth during its remote geological past, perhaps even going right back to its beginnings, ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Earth
Tech Xplore / TSMC says started mass production of 'most advanced' 2nm chips

Taiwanese tech titan TSMC has started mass producing its cutting-edge 2-nanometer semiconductor chips, the company said in a statement seen by AFP on Wednesday.

Phys.org / Wind-battered Lick Observatory rushes to shield historic telescope after dome damage

Winds exceeding 110 mph that tore across the top of Mount Hamilton early Christmas morning blasted a massive steel protective door off the iconic white dome at Lick Observatory.

Dec 31, 2025 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Could TRAPPIST-1's seven worlds host moons?

Forty light-years away, seven Earth-sized planets orbit around a dim red dwarf star in one of the most tightly packed planetary systems ever discovered. The TRAPPIST-1 system has captivated astronomers since 2017, with three ...

Jan 2, 2026 in Astronomy & Space
Phys.org / Image: JWST captures colliding spiral galaxies

Mid-infrared observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown in white, gray, and red, are combined here with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, highlighted in blue. Together, these different wavelengths ...

Dec 30, 2025 in Astronomy & Space