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  "entity": "LearningWire",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "learningwire.com",
  "vertical": "Science & Discovery",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-10-16T11:38:22.057Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Transferable chemical prediction approach may help reduce trial and error",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-chemical-approach-trial-error.html",
      "summary": "Chemical predictions can help prevent unwanted reactions or improve the efficacy of industrial processes, among other applications, but predicting how chemicals interact can be costly and time-consuming—especially because chemicals may behave differently from one environment to a",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:00:08 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Resistance to change has 12 different drivers, new measurement tool reveals",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-resistance-drivers-tool-reveals.html",
      "summary": "Almost all change is difficult: adapting your lifestyle, a reorganization at work, or starting to use gender-neutral language. When behavioral change is required, resistance is therefore often encountered. As a result, it can sometimes take a long time for a change to be accepted",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:24:57 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Winter sea ice loss may be underestimated, ancient clues from a warmer Arctic suggest",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-winter-sea-ice-loss-underestimated.html",
      "summary": "Future Arctic winter sea ice is likely to shrink by around 1 million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) more than previously thought, after researchers used clues from a warm period 6,000 years ago to improve the reliability of climate models.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:00:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Performance under pressure: A new perspective on why we fail—or rise to the occasion",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-pressure-perspective-occasion.html",
      "summary": "The decisive penalty kick in a final, match point in tennis or the last attempt in a competition: When a lot is at stake, even a well-practiced performance can suddenly break down. Yet pressure does not necessarily impair performance. Some people perform at their best precisely i",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:38:41 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "First in-depth map of 'forever chemicals' in the Finger Lakes created",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-depth-chemicals-finger-lakes.html",
      "summary": "In 2023, professor Damian Helbling was getting a lot of calls and emails from local residents. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had just announced regulations to limit per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)—some of which have been linked to cancers and other negative",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:40:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Endangered species in Canada face extensive delays receiving protection",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-endangered-species-canada-extensive-delays.html",
      "summary": "For more than 20 years, Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA) has protected wildlife that are at risk of being lost from Canadian lands and waters. Once a species is listed as extirpated, endangered or threatened under the act, it becomes illegal to kill, harm or capture it or dama",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:00:02 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "A rare family of barn owls moved into Manhattan's Upper West Side. New Yorkers are captivated",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rare-family-barn-owls-manhattan.html",
      "summary": "Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: a family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Can extra weight weigh on your dog's brain?",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-extra-weight-dog-brain.html",
      "summary": "Scientists have learned a lot about what happens to the human body as we age. But there's still much to learn about how other species age, including dogs. Even carrying extra weight could affect a dog's cognitive health. Alexandra Genualdi, a student at Oklahoma State University ",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "In animated films, nonhuman characters are still overwhelmingly male",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-animated-nonhuman-characters-overwhelmingly-male.html",
      "summary": "Female protagonists in animated films have come a long way over the past several decades. Take the 1959 movie \"Sleeping Beauty\": Soft-spoken and vulnerable, Princess Aurora is cursed as an infant by the evil fairy Maleficent and ultimately saved not by her own wits, but by a prin",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Newly discovered viruses reveal an evolutionary missing link",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-newly-viruses-reveal-evolutionary-link.html",
      "summary": "Researchers at the University of Miami have identified a group of previously unknown viruses that bridge an evolutionary gap between viruses and cellular protein compartments, a discovery with implications for both biotechnology and scientists' understanding of the origins of lif",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:40:10 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Rigorous analysis confirms NASA's Artemis II heat shield performance",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rigorous-analysis-nasa-artemis-ii.html",
      "summary": "NASA's Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the moon's surface.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:40:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "White Sands footprints suggest humans experienced abrupt environmental shifts during the last ice age",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-white-sands-footprints-humans-experienced.html",
      "summary": "Expanded excavations at White Sands National Park in New Mexico have provided researchers an opportunity to refine the age of the oldest human footprints in North America and establish a deeper understanding of the landscape and environmental conditions at the time humans were pr",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:20:08 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Imperial woodpecker returns to life as a detailed digital specimen",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-imperial-woodpecker-life-digital-specimen.html",
      "summary": "Researchers have created a detailed, animated 3D model of the imperial woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis), a spectacular bird that has not been confirmed in the wild since 1956. The model, built from a museum specimen and the only known film footage of the living bird, is freely",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:20:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Food, fear and physics help explain group behavior from plankton to whales",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-food-physics-group-behavior-plankton.html",
      "summary": "The open ocean is a dynamic environment, where food is patchy, predators are plentiful, and oceanographic conditions change constantly. Life in the pelagic environment—the offshore waters that extend from the sunlit surface through the twilight zone—requires unique adaptations fo",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:00:09 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "New spectroscopy method enables direct comparisons of nuclear sizes across heavy elements",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-spectroscopy-method-enables-comparisons-nuclear.html",
      "summary": "The size of a nucleus (nuclear charge radius) is an important physical quantity that reflects the arrangement of protons and neutrons within the nucleus. Particularly in deformed nuclei, such as those of rare-earth elements, examining changes in the charge radius can deepen our u",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Lunar fault maps reveal how much the moon is shrinking",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-lunar-fault-reveal-moon.html",
      "summary": "A new study of young tectonic landforms on the moon offers the most detailed estimate yet of how much the moon has contracted as its interior gradually cooled over time.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:40:08 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Nearly half of reef-building coral species face higher risk of extinction",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-reef-coral-species-higher-extinction.html",
      "summary": "A University of Portsmouth scientist has helped lead a major global study, which finds that 44% of the world's reef-building coral species are now threatened with extinction—and warns the true figure is likely to be even higher.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:40:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "African American young adults favor family support when it comes to caring for older adults",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-african-american-young-adults-favor.html",
      "summary": "A study led by Nekehia Quashie, an assistant professor of public health in the University of Rhode Island's College of Health Sciences, examined how different African American age groups felt about the responsibility of supporting older adults.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:20:11 EDT",
      "image": null
    }
  ]
}