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Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star
- Feb 12, 2026
One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or "super-...
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New model tracks antimicrobial resistance genes across gut, wastewater, soil and air
- Feb 12, 2026
A multinational research team led by Professor Tong Zhang from the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong K...
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NASA's SPHEREx mission spots 3I/ATLAS's bright envelope
- Feb 11, 2026
NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of pe...
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Rethinking climate change: Natural variability, solar forcing, model uncertainties, and policy implications
- Feb 11, 2026
Current global climate models (GCMs) support with high confidence the view that rising greenhouse gases and other anthropogenic forcings account for n...
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Why some forests unlock more soil phosphorus: Elevation, soil pH and calcium stand out
- Feb 11, 2026
Phosphorus is essential for plant growth and ecosystem productivity. In many natural forests, plants rely on soil microbes to release bioavailable pho...
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A new framework could transform national flood prediction
- Feb 11, 2026
When severe weather strikes, the National Weather Service's (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP) makes critical flood forecasts with the National Wa...
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Cell division spindles self-organize like active liquid crystals—a theory that holds up
- Feb 11, 2026
When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells. The spindle is the machi...
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Visualizing how a plant's leaves, stem and roots mutually communicate under environmental stress in real time
- Feb 11, 2026
How do the different parts of an adult plant communicate with each other when it suffers an injury, is waterlogged, burnt or exposed to environmental...
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Scientists reveal formation mechanism behind spherical assemblies of nanocrystals
- Feb 11, 2026
From table salt to snowflakes, and from gemstones to diamonds—we encounter crystals everywhere in daily life, usually cubic (table salt) or hexagonal...
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Saturn's moon Titan could have formed in a merger of two old moons
- Feb 11, 2026
Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini...
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AI method accelerates liquid simulations by learning fundamental physical relationships
- Feb 11, 2026
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method using artificial intelligence that can significantly speed up the calculation of liq...
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A familiar magnet gets stranger: Why cobalt's topological states could matter for spintronics
- Feb 11, 2026
The element cobalt is considered a typical ferromagnet with no further secrets. However, an international team led by HZB researcher Dr. Jaime Sánchez...