{ "entity": "MechNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "mechnews.com", "vertical": "Science & Discovery", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-11-10T09:59:03.345Z", "articles": [ { "title": "AI-assisted atomic models reveal how protective shells regulate aluminum nanoparticle oxidation", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-ai-atomic-reveal-shells-aluminum.html", "summary": "Building an accurate model of how atoms interact is a complicated process. Researchers must choose new calculations, test successive models and track the mechanisms behind each interaction. But a newly developed AI agent called MLP Copilot has made this process much easier by bri", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:00:01 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "A tiny squeeze dramatically changes the magnetism of exotic materials", "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261101010541.htm", "summary": "Scientists have discovered that a simple mechanical squeeze can dramatically alter the magnetic properties and electrical behavior of exotic materials called altermagnets. The surprising breakthrough could open the door to faster, more energy-efficient electronics and new technol", "source": "sciencedaily.com", "published": "Wed, 04 Nov 2026 07:37:52 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "The brain’s hidden fear mechanism may explain anxiety and PTSD", "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261102202833.htm", "summary": "A surprising new discovery suggests that fear may cause the brain to blur the line between danger and safety rather than distinguish them more clearly. By observing brain activity in mice using augmented reality, scientists found that memories of threatening and harmless environm", "source": "sciencedaily.com", "published": "Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:03:02 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Heat-trapping carbon pollution drops, but scientists cite the Iran war rather than energy progress", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-carbon-pollution-scientists-cite-iran.html", "summary": "Global carbon pollution dropped this year ever so slightly, but it's more because of oil shocks reverberating from the Iran war than anything the world has done to fight climate change, scientists said in a new study.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:23:09 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Math anxiety may be stopping students from learning useful AI and data skills", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-math-anxiety-students-ai-skills.html", "summary": "Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of everyday life and work. AI can generate information, summarize evidence and perform calculations. However, it does not remove the need for critical thinking and conceptual understanding.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:40:07 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Light-pulse pairs reveal the femtosecond decay of an inner-shell hole in xenon atoms", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-pulse-pairs-reveal-femtosecond-decay.html", "summary": "Researchers at the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility (Institute for Molecular Science, Japan) and partner institutions have observed the decay of a xenon 4d core hole, an inner-shell vacancy, directly in the time domain. They used pairs of phase-coherent extreme ultraviolet pulses from ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:20:06 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Alzheimer’s may have early warning signs outside the brain", "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261108233103.htm", "summary": "A surprising discovery suggests that some early signs of Alzheimer’s disease may begin outside the brain. Using miniature laboratory systems made from human cells, scientists found that genetic mutations associated with inherited Alzheimer’s can disrupt nerve-to-muscle connection", "source": "sciencedaily.com", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:47:34 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Barium titanate's optical properties emerge more clearly after decades of widely varying measurements", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-barium-titanate-optical-properties-emerge.html", "summary": "A KAIST-led research team has characterized how light propagates through and is absorbed by barium titanate (BTO), a promising material for next-generation optical communication devices. By clarifying optical properties that had been difficult to determine because of the material", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:40:01 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Electrical technique concentrates milk without using heat, challenging traditional preservation methods", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-electrical-technique-traditional-methods.html", "summary": "Dehydrating milk to turn it into powder is, today, an energy-intensive process that subjects the product to high temperatures. Powdered milk is widely used by the food industry and allows the product to be stored and transported in a stable condition for long periods of time with", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:20:01 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Fossil CO₂ emissions projected to decrease in 2026 amid clean energy growth and Iran conflict", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-fossil-emissions-decrease-energy-growth.html", "summary": "Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to decrease by 0.4% in 2026—driven by expansion of solar and wind power and the Iran conflict—according to new research by the Global Carbon Project. The 2026 edition (the 21st annual report) is published in the journal Eart", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:00:05 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "The surprising power of connecting with strangers", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-power-strangers.html", "summary": "You're walking through the farmers market with a screaming toddler tucked under your arm football style. You're tired, you're leaving without the produce you came for and you're embarrassed.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:50:01 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "After 40 years, CERN finds evidence of a one-in-10-billion particle decay", "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/11/261108233047.htm", "summary": "CERN scientists have finally found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it happens only once in roughly 10 billion decays, ending a search spanning more than 40 years. The breakthrough could help physicists uncover hidden particles and forces that lie beyond the reach of tod", "source": "sciencedaily.com", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:42:52 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Gatineau Park foliage reveals local Cold War nuclear testing legacy", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-gatineau-foliage-reveals-local-cold.html", "summary": "For more than six decades, local scientists have collected sugar maple leaves from Gatineau Park to measure their radiocarbon levels, creating the longest continuous record of its kind. Now, a study of those leaves led by the André E. Lalonde National Facility for Accelerator Mas", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:40:08 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Accidental discovery enables room-temperature recrystallization of molybdenum", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-accidental-discovery-enables-room-temperature.html", "summary": "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 metal—at room temperature. Molybdenum is typically used to reinforce nuclear reac", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:30:06 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Study identifies single amino acid change that alters Andes virus protein behavior in human cells", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-amino-acid-andes-virus-protein.html", "summary": "Mount Sinai researchers have identified a single amino acid difference between rodent- and human-derived Andes virus isolates that changes how a key viral protein behaves inside human cells. The findings help explain biological differences between closely related virus isolates.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:20:09 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Starling numbers are declining—we're investigating whether their spectacular murmuration displays are changing too", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-starling-declining-spectacular-murmuration-displays.html", "summary": "Every autumn, from city centers to wetlands, starling murmurations attract crowds of spectators. Thousands of birds fill the sky, twisting and turning in extraordinary waves as the sun sets. An entire flock moves as one, creating shapes that shift and dissolve as quickly as they ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:20:02 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Methane-eating microbes grown on electrodes build electrically conductive nanowires", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-methane-microbes-grown-electrodes-electrically.html", "summary": "Certain microorganisms (anaerobic methanotrophic archaea, or ANME) consume methane and convert it into electricity, as research conducted four years ago by microbiologist Cornelia Welte of Radboud University revealed. New research by Welte and her colleagues published in Nature C", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:10:14 EST", "image": null }, { "title": "Cracking the case of the Roman frog graveyard", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-11-case-roman-frog-graveyard.html", "summary": "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", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Mon, 09 Nov 2026 19:10:09 EST", "image": null } ] }