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Asteroid Dimorphos is now under inspection from just 15–18 miles away after a deliberate impact in 2022, with some debris that could still linger nearby. phys.org/news/2026-11-europe…
Europe's Hera spacecraft begins close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA in a 2022 test

Europe's Hera spacecraft begins close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA in a 2022 test

A European spacecraft has begun close inspections of an asteroid rammed by NASA four years ago in a planetary defense test.

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A deep-sea mollusk houses hundreds to thousands of bacteria in tiny “dragon balls,” each wrapped in more than 20 membrane layers that may help manage scarce oxygen. @hkust @NatureComms phys.org/news/2026-11-deep-s…
Deep-sea mollusk houses bacteria in tiny 'dragon balls,' revealing a new symbiotic structure

Deep-sea mollusk houses bacteria in tiny 'dragon balls,' revealing a new symbiotic structure

Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have discovered a previously unknown specialized organelle structure in a deep-sea mollusk living at cold seeps in the South...

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Clay figurines up to 15,000 years old place symbolic clay use in the Middle East well before agriculture, with some still bearing traces of red or orange. @plos @PLOSONE phys.org/news/2026-11-clay-f…
Symbolic clay figurines change our understanding of the prehistoric Middle East

Symbolic clay figurines change our understanding of the prehistoric Middle East

Newly discovered artifacts are evidence of the earliest known example of a tradition of making clay figurines in the Middle East—and challenge long-held beliefs about when and how clay began to be...

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Twenty edits across 14 genes produced modified gray wolves, not resurrected dire wolves, an opinion paper argues—recreating traits does not restore an extinct lineage. @RSocPublishing phys.org/news/2026-11-scient…
Scientists challenge the dream of bringing extinct species back to life

Scientists challenge the dream of bringing extinct species back to life

Could extinction itself become a thing of the past? Advances in biotechnology, including ancient DNA sequencing, genome analysis and gene editing, have led some to believe that it may be possible to...

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A magnet beside—not along—a multimode glass fiber can change its light pattern, exposing an effect hidden by a standard shortcut used for more than 50 years. @witsuniversity phys.org/news/2026-11-standa…
A standard shortcut, used since the 1970s, hides a magneto-optic effect in ordinary glass fiber

A standard shortcut, used since the 1970s, hides a magneto-optic effect in ordinary glass fiber

For more than 50 years, engineers have described light in optical fiber using a convenient shortcut, one that works so well it is rarely questioned. Engineers at the University of the Witwatersrand...

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Tiny red dots may cradle the first supermassive black holes: simulations suggest these compact galaxies hide black holes weighing around 10 million suns inside dense gas. @portsmouthuni @AAS_Office phys.org/news/2026-11-webb-c…
Webb's controversial 'little red dots' may finally have an explanation

Webb's controversial 'little red dots' may finally have an explanation

Astronomers may have solved one of the biggest mysteries uncovered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), using sophisticated simulations to show that enigmatic objects known as "little red...

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Over 9,000 bones in a Roman-era gully likely came from owls, not a human frog feast, with clues pointing to a single winter of hunting near Cambridge. phys.org/news/2026-11-roman-…
Roman-era 'frog feast' near Cambridge was the work of owls, bone analysis suggests

Roman-era 'frog feast' near Cambridge was the work of owls, bone analysis suggests

Around 1,800 years ago, over 9,000 bones, mainly from frogs, ended up in an Iron Age/Roman gully near Cambridge. When archaeologists first dug them up, speculation soon followed. Were these the...

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A single solid turns from yellow to white under light, undergoes a different chemical reaction when heated and flashes blue when scratched—all within one molecular structure. @MizzouNews @angew_chem phys.org/news/2026-11-molecu…
By carefully arranging molecules, scientists can control how a material responds to light, heat and...

By carefully arranging molecules, scientists can control how a material responds to light, heat and...

University of Missouri researchers have created a single solid material that responds differently depending on what it's exposed to. Shine light on it, and it changes from yellow to white, an...

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Desulfovibrio bacteria in wastewater were linked to eight community health measures, including obesity and stroke, suggesting sewage may offer health clues beyond infections. @OhioState phys.org/news/2026-11-links-…
Study finds links between bacteria in wastewater and chronic disease

Study finds links between bacteria in wastewater and chronic disease

Bacteria found in wastewater may provide clues about community health, including rates of chronic disease, health behaviors and social conditions, according to a recent study from The Ohio State...

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West Coast respondents said they would pay a median 10% extra for hypothetical “salmon-safe” tires—about $76 for a set of four—but the product does not yet exist. phys.org/news/2026-11-driver…
Study investigates what drivers would pay for 'salmon-safe' tires

Study investigates what drivers would pay for 'salmon-safe' tires

The average person might be willing to pay a 10% premium for vehicle tires labeled as "salmon safe," according to a new study led by Washington State University.

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Galaxies in one dense group retain, on average, just 20%–40% of the molecular gas found in similar isolated galaxies—a shortage of star-forming fuel 7 billion light-years away. @AandA_journal phys.org/news/2026-11-cosmic…
How the cosmic environment depletes galaxies of their gas

How the cosmic environment depletes galaxies of their gas

An international team of researchers, led by Jonathan Freundlich (University of Strasbourg, Astronomical Observatory), has revealed how a dense cosmic environment depletes galaxies of their gas. By...

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Molybdenum can recrystallize at room temperature instead of about 1,000°C—a diamond tip reshapes its crystal grains in tiny regions, but too much pressure makes the new grains disappear. @UofR @PNASNews phys.org/news/2026-11-accide…
Accidental discovery enables room-temperature recrystallization of molybdenum

Accidental discovery enables room-temperature recrystallization of molybdenum

Researchers at the University of Rochester and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology accidentally discovered a new way to rearrange the internal structure of molybdenum—an extremely heat-resistant...

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Arsenic in Greenland ice peaked at about 15 times preindustrial levels around World War I, with the pollution traced to Montana’s Anaconda copper operations more than 2,500 miles away. @DRIscience @naturesustai phys.org/news/2026-11-ice-co…
Ice core records uncover widespread air pollution from early 20th-century copper production

Ice core records uncover widespread air pollution from early 20th-century copper production

About a century ago, the Anaconda Copper Mine complex near Butte, Montana, was emitting vast amounts of air pollution into the atmosphere. As small particles of arsenic and other heavy metals were...

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Noaillian hunter-gatherers occupied Italy’s coastal gateway about 2,000 years earlier than previously dated, with evidence at Riparo Mochi reaching back roughly 30,000–30,800 years. phys.org/news/2026-11-ice-ag…
Ice Age camp reveals hunter-gatherers reached Italy thousands of years earlier than previously...

Ice Age camp reveals hunter-gatherers reached Italy thousands of years earlier than previously...

A fresh excavation of the eastern deposit at Riparo Mochi, a rock shelter near today's French–Italian border, has pushed back the timeline for when Ice Age hunter-gatherers from Spain first entered...

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Birds of prey ate the frogs behind 8,000 bones in a Roman ditch that filled within a year, with short-eared owls and hen harriers the likeliest culprits. phys.org/news/2026-11-case-r…
Cracking the case of the Roman frog graveyard

Cracking the case of the Roman frog graveyard

Ten years after 8,000 ancient frog bones were discovered in a single ditch, scientists at Bournemouth University and the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) have finally identified the culprits

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A quantum computer drawing less than 20 kilowatts is being tested in a Sydney data center, with the technology offering a possible route to curbing AI’s energy demands. phys.org/news/2026-11-quantu…
Quantum could solve AI energy drain, says tech founder

Quantum could solve AI energy drain, says tech founder

Quantum computers could curb the vast energy demands of artificial intelligence data centers with their ability to run complex calculations, one of the tech's pioneers told AFP.

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A lab-based axion search was over 20 times more sensitive than earlier similar experiments, yet found no evidence of these hypothetical dark matter candidates. @arxiv @physrevlett phys.org/news/2026-11-world-…
World's most sensitive lab-based axion search presents its first results

World's most sensitive lab-based axion search presents its first results

Physicists at the ALPS II collaboration have reported the first results from the Any-Light-Particle-Search (ALPS) II experiment: the most sensitive instrument of its kind in the search for hypothet...

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More than half of 131 ancient Egyptian cat skulls showed disease or injury, suggesting that cats destined as offerings to the gods lived in poor conditions. phys.org/news/2026-11-egypti…
Egyptian cats meant for the gods led harsh lives, extensive museum collection reveals

Egyptian cats meant for the gods led harsh lives, extensive museum collection reveals

More than 2,000 years ago, Egyptians offered cats to the gods. Now, a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests that even cats destined for the gods did not necessarily...

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A beetle in roughly 53-million-year-old amber extends its genus’s fossil record by about 15 million years, placing the lineage in Western Europe’s early Eocene forests. @pensoft phys.org/news/2026-11-tiny-b…
Tiny beetle trapped in 53-million-year-old amber is named after Twenty One Pilots

Tiny beetle trapped in 53-million-year-old amber is named after Twenty One Pilots

Preserved in amber for about 53 million years, a beetle has been described as a new species by researchers in Spain and France. Named Cnopus twentyonepilotorum, it is the first puppet beetle (family...

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Eastern Pacific leatherback nests reached record numbers in Ecuador, over 1,000 miles from usual nesting grounds—a shift that may reflect adaptation to warming seas. @sfu phys.org/news/2026-11-endang…
Endangered leatherbacks find new nesting beaches in Ecuador as Pacific Ocean warms

Endangered leatherbacks find new nesting beaches in Ecuador as Pacific Ocean warms

A hopeful story for the world's largest, critically endangered sea turtle may be playing out along the sandy beaches of Ecuador.

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