**A Microscopic Coral Trick Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef** By Queensland University of Technology - Published on 08 February 2026 Scientists have revealed how corals anchor themselves to reefs through a multi-step biological process. The findings could help restoration efforts focus on coral species most likely to survive and thrive. Researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have identified essential biological mechanisms that enable corals to attach to reef surfaces, a breakthrough that could strengthen [...] Read more:

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A Microscopic Coral Trick Could Help Save the Great Barrier Reef

Scientists have revealed how corals anchor themselves to reefs through a multi-step biological process. The findings could help restoration efforts...

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**Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought** By Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Published on 08 February 2026 A recent study indicates that aerobic respiration may have emerged far earlier than scientists once believed. Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part of the atmosphere about 2.3 billion years ago during the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), a turning point that [...] Read more:

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Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

A recent study indicates that aerobic respiration may have emerged far earlier than scientists once believed.

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**Earth’s Magnetic Field Has an “Astonishing” Wild Side Scientists Missed Until Now** By University of Utah - Published on 08 February 2026 Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected. Deep beneath our feet, a restless ocean of molten metal helps keep Earth livable. The planet’s magnetic field forms as liquid iron and nickel circulate through the outer core, generating electric currents that create a global [...] Read more:

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Earth’s Magnetic Field Has an “Astonishing” Wild Side Scientists Missed Until Now

Deep beneath the ocean floor, ancient sediments hint that Earth’s magnetic field sometimes changed far more slowly than expected.

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**Ancient Plankton Reveal a Surprise About Future Ocean Oxygen** By University of Southampton - Published on 07 February 2026 A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the centuries ahead, even as the planet continues to warm. About 16 million years ago, the Arabian Sea contained more oxygen than it does today, even though Earth’s climate was warmer at the time. Strong monsoons, shifting [...] Read more:

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Ancient Plankton Reveal a Surprise About Future Ocean Oxygen

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the centuries ahead, even as...

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**A Flat Optical Surface Just Broke a Major Rule of Light** By Chinese Society for Optical Engineering - Published on 07 February 2026 A paper-thin surface now lets light follow two independent paths without losing color clarity. Broadband achromatic wavefront control plays a central role in next-generation photonic technologies, including full-color imaging and multi-spectral sensing. A research team led by Professor Yijun Feng and Professor Ke Chen at Nanjing University has now reported a significant advance in this [...] Read more:

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A Flat Optical Surface Just Broke a Major Rule of Light

A paper-thin surface now lets light follow two independent paths without losing color clarity.

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**Can You Engineer a Dream? Neuroscientists Say Yes – and It Boosts Creativity** By Northwestern University - Published on 07 February 2026 New research from Northwestern University suggests that dreams may play a more active role in creative problem-solving than previously demonstrated. The advice to “sleep on it” has stuck around for a reason. Psychologists have long noted that stepping away from a hard problem can lead to sudden insight later, but dreams have been difficult to [...] Read more:

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Can You Engineer a Dream? Neuroscientists Say Yes – and It Boosts Creativity

New research from Northwestern University suggests that dreams may play a more active role in creative problem-solving than previously demonstrated.

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**This Common Nutrient Could Be the Key to Faster Wound Healing** By Rockefeller University - Published on 07 February 2026 When nutrients run low, hair follicle stem cells can stop making hair and help repair the skin instead. A drop in the amino acid serine triggers this switch, accelerating wound healing. Human skin relies on two main groups of adult stem cells: epidermal stem cells and hair follicle stem cells. Under normal conditions, each group [...] Read more:

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This Common Nutrient Could Be the Key to Faster Wound Healing

When nutrients run low, hair follicle stem cells can stop making hair and help repair the skin instead. A drop in the amino acid serine triggers th...

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**Scientists Watched Kidneys Age in Months and Found a Kidney Protector** By MDI Biological Laboratory - Published on 07 February 2026 A fast-aging fish revealed how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug slows the damage. A new study published in Kidney International shows that medications known as SGLT2 inhibitors helped prevent age-related damage to kidney structure and function in the African turquoise killifish. This small vertebrate lives its entire life in just a few months, [...] Read more:

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Scientists Watched Kidneys Age in Months and Found a Kidney Protector

A fast-aging fish revealed how kidneys grow old—and how a common drug slows the damage.

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**A New Brain Map Is Changing What We Know About Parkinson’s Disease** By Duke-NUS Medical School - Published on 07 February 2026 A groundbreaking brain atlas maps nearly 680,000 cells to reveal how the human brain develops at the single-cell level. The discovery could transform Parkinson’s research by setting new standards for building accurate lab-grown neurons. Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School, together with international collaborators, have produced one of the most detailed single-cell maps of the developing [...] Read more:

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A New Brain Map Is Changing What We Know About Parkinson’s Disease

A groundbreaking brain atlas maps nearly 680,000 cells to reveal how the human brain develops at the single-cell level. The discovery could transfo...

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**A Simple Blood Protein Could Transform Treatment of a Deadly Fungal Disease** By The Lundquist Institute - Published on 07 February 2026 Albumin has been identified as a powerful natural defense against mucormycosis, with low levels signaling heightened risk and a potential opportunity for new preventive therapies. An international research team has reported in Nature that albumin, the most plentiful protein in human blood, plays a much stronger role in protecting the body against mucormycosis than previously [...] Read more:

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A Simple Blood Protein Could Transform Treatment of a Deadly Fungal Disease

Albumin has been identified as a powerful natural defense against mucormycosis, with low levels signaling heightened risk and a potential opportuni...

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**A Needle-Thin Implant Could Transform How Scientists Study and Treat the Brain** By Technical University of Denmark - Published on 07 February 2026 A needle-thin, flexible brain implant is giving researchers a new way to interact with multiple brain regions simultaneously. A new type of brain implant is offering researchers a different way to interact with neural circuits across multiple depths of the brain. The device is a microfluidic Axialtrode (mAxialtrode), a long and extremely thin electrode designed [...] Read more:

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A Needle-Thin Implant Could Transform How Scientists Study and Treat the Brain

A needle-thin, flexible brain implant is giving researchers a new way to interact with multiple brain regions simultaneously.

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**A New Alzheimer’s Target Emerges: Blocking One Protein Restores Memory in Mice** By Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - Published on 07 February 2026 Researchers have identified a protein that links brain immune activity, metabolism, and amyloid clearance, suggesting a new way to enhance current Alzheimer’s treatments. Alzheimer’s disease can look like a set of grim headlines: soaring case counts, ballooning health care costs, and an aging population that makes the problem harder every year. But inside a home, [...] Read more:

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A New Alzheimer’s Target Emerges: Blocking One Protein Restores Memory in Mice

Researchers have identified a protein that links brain immune activity, metabolism, and amyloid clearance, suggesting a new way to enhance current ...

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**Why Scientists Are Rethinking 60 Years of Arctic Snow Data** By Chris Sasaki, University of Toronto - Published on 07 February 2026 Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites were simply becoming better at detecting smaller and shrinking amounts of snow. For many years, reports from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have summarized how Earth’s climate is changing. New research [...] Read more:

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Why Scientists Are Rethinking 60 Years of Arctic Snow Data

Decades of advances in satellite observation made it seem as though Arctic snow cover was growing, when in reality satellites were simply becoming ...

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**Melting Antarctic Ice Did the Opposite of What Scientists Expected** By Columbia Climate School - Published on 02 February 2026 Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide. A new study published today (February 2) in Nature Geoscience finds that shifts in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely followed changes in marine algae growth in the Southern [...] Read more:

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Melting Antarctic Ice Did the Opposite of What Scientists Expected

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’...

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**Do “Super Shoes” Really Work? Scientists Urge Caution** By Joel Fuller and Eoin Doyle, Macquarie University, Chloe Blacket and John Arnold, University of South Australia - Published on 02 February 2026 High-tech “super shoes” are no longer just for Olympians, offering measurable performance gains through innovative design. Once limited to elite athletes at the Olympics and other major running competitions, the so-called “super shoe” has moved beyond the podium and onto everyday roads and paths. You are now just as likely to see them at a [...] Read more:

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Do “Super Shoes” Really Work? Scientists Urge Caution

High-tech “super shoes” are no longer just for Olympians, offering measurable performance gains through innovative design.

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**A Parasite Carried by Billions Has a Secret Life Inside the Brain** By University of California - Riverside - Published on 01 February 2026 A common parasite hiding in the brain turns out to be far more active and organized than anyone realized. A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered that Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite estimated to infect up to one-third of the world’s population, is far more biologically complex than previously understood. Their [...] Read more:

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A Parasite Carried by Billions Has a Secret Life Inside the Brain

A common parasite hiding in the brain turns out to be far more active and organized than anyone realized.

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**Why Are My Ears Ringing? Here’s What Experts Want You To Know About Tinnitus** By Penn State - Published on 01 February 2026 Understanding how hearing loss and tinnitus develop reveals why early prevention and treatment matter. Susan Bianco, an 87-year-old resident of Lancaster, began to notice changes in her hearing when she repeatedly had to ask her husband to say things again. Conversations on the phone became difficult, and social gatherings were especially challenging. “It’s very hard [...] Read more:

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Why Are My Ears Ringing? Here’s What Experts Want You To Know About Tinnitus

Understanding how hearing loss and tinnitus develop reveals why early prevention and treatment matter.

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**100 Years Before Quantum Mechanics, a Physicist Spotted Its Hidden Clue** By Robyn Arianrhod, Monash University - Published on 01 February 2026 Hamilton’s 19th-century insight connecting light and motion became a cornerstone of quantum mechanics and modern physics. William Rowan Hamilton, the Irish mathematician and physicist born 220 years ago last month, is often remembered for an unusual act in 1843, when he carved a mathematical formula into the stone of Dublin’s Broome Bridge. During his own [...] Read more:

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100 Years Before Quantum Mechanics, a Physicist Spotted Its Hidden Clue

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

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**What Really Happened on Easter Island? New Evidence Challenges Long-Held Myths** By Columbia Climate School - Published on 01 February 2026 A newly reconstructed rainfall record shows that prolonged drought, not societal collapse, reshaped Rapa Nui’s history. A new study led by scientists at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory provides the strongest evidence so far that a prolonged drought dramatically reshaped life on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) starting around 1550. To uncover this history, the team extracted [...] Read more:

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What Really Happened on Easter Island? New Evidence Challenges Long-Held Myths

A newly reconstructed rainfall record shows that prolonged drought, not societal collapse, reshaped Rapa Nui’s history.

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**Bridges in North America Are in Worse Shape Than Anywhere Else on Earth** By Laurie Fickman, University of Houston - Published on 01 February 2026 A new study finds that bridges in North America and Africa face the highest risk of failure, and researchers suggest using satellite monitoring to help detect problems early and prevent collapses. A scientist at the University of Houston is helping identify the world’s most vulnerable bridges and pointing to ways they could be repaired before [...] Read more:

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Bridges in North America Are in Worse Shape Than Anywhere Else on Earth

A new study finds that bridges in North America and Africa face the highest risk of failure, and researchers suggest using satellite monitoring to ...

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