{ "entity": "StudentNewsletter", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "studentnewsletter.com", "vertical": "Science & Discovery", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-10-17T03:48:31.836Z", "articles": [ { "title": "First comprehensive Mars soil classification offers framework for exploration and future farming", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-comprehensive-mars-soil-classification-framework.html", "summary": "A Ph.D. student at the University of Sydney has produced the first comprehensive classification system and map of Martian soils, creating a new framework that could help scientists compare landscapes across the Red Planet and identify promising locations for future exploration, h", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:40:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Automated essay assessment can grade writing more accurately across topics, study finds", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-automated-essay-grade-accurately-topics.html", "summary": "An artificial intelligence (AI) model can score English essays with improved accuracy across different writing topics, according to work published in the International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning. The tool could help schools assess student w", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:22 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "How animal identifiability affects children's food choices", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-animal-affects-children-food-choices.html", "summary": "Naming a chicken and describing its favorite habits is enough to make preschoolers choose poultry less often. This effect translates into verbal declarations and actual meal choices, but food preferences still most often win over empathy, according to a new paper by researchers f", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Political violence: How justifications influence voter approval", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-political-violence-justifications-voter.html", "summary": "What happens when political violence is presented as a justified response to threat or injustice coming from an out-group? A study by Ursula Daxecker, director at the Max Planck Institute for Politics and Social Science in Göttingen, and Neeraj Prasad of the University of Amsterd", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:00:02 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Scientists uncover mystery of how snail shells coil to the right or to the left", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-scientists-uncover-mystery-snail-shells.html", "summary": "Scientists have discovered a gene that determines whether Japanese snails develop shells that are left- or right-coiling—with implications for understanding the underlying handedness of our own bodies. The researchers from the University of Nottingham and Tohoku University studie", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:40:10 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England—until the Black Death made them commonplace", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-rabbits-medieval-royal-luxury-england.html", "summary": "The European rabbit is a common sight in the British countryside today. Yet it was not always so. They are not native to the British Isles and are one of the most devastating invasive species.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:40:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Astronomer leads global team on NASA mission to create unprecedented view of the early universe", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-astronomer-global-team-nasa-mission.html", "summary": "A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Harvard University—on an ambitious mission to capture an unprecedented view of the early universe.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Plants shift gene activity within minutes of entering spaceflight, experiment reveals", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-shift-gene-minutes-spaceflight-reveals.html", "summary": "Plants begin responding to spaceflight almost immediately after leaving Earth, according to a new University of Florida study that captured the earliest stages of biological adaptation during a commercial suborbital mission. Published in the journal npj Microgravity, the study re", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:00:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "New 3D model reveals how shadows reshape chemistry in stellar nurseries", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-3d-reveals-shadows-reshape-chemistry.html", "summary": "How do young stars reshape the clouds from which they are born? A new high-resolution 3D model developed by an international team led by Dr Brandt Gaches from the University of Duisburg-Essen shows how the uneven structure of stellar nurseries creates shadows that alter their che", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:40:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Scientists discover cell division does more than make new cells: It helps reshape tissues", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-scientists-cell-division-cells-reshape.html", "summary": "Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment. That creates a fundamental problem that scientists have not fully understood: How does a tightly packed sheet of cells make room for two daughter cells when there was once only on", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Sexual violence concepts launched online are spilling into the real world", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-sexual-violence-concepts-online-real.html", "summary": "Andrew Tate, a self-described misogynist and an online influencer with millions of followers, faces charges in several countries of allegedly causing physical harm, including rape and sex trafficking of women and girls.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:00:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "New high-frequency method boosts 2D material readout for next-gen quantum computers", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-high-frequency-method-boosts-2d.html", "summary": "Quantum computers represent a next step in the fast-paced evolution of technology. Using quantum bits (qubits), they have the potential to run certain calculations exponentially faster than conventional computers. However, developing and fine-tuning quantum computers requires an ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:00:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Sunlight gives biodiesel byproduct a second life as hydrogen and valuable chemicals", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-sunlight-biodiesel-byproduct-life-hydrogen.html", "summary": "Australian researchers and international collaborators have demonstrated a solar-driven approach to convert glycerol, a low-value byproduct of biodiesel production, into hydrogen and higher-value chemicals. Using advanced techniques at the Australian Synchrotron, they revealed ho", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "A highway instead of a racetrack: Strong coupling of light and sound in an optical fiber", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-highway-racetrack-strong-coupling-optical.html", "summary": "For the first time, scientists have achieved strong coupling between light and long-lived acoustic vibrations in an optical fiber. Optical fibers are used in both classical telecommunications and quantum communication and could serve not only as connections between computing node", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Infrared light overcomes mirror coating obstacle in gravitational wave detector upgrades", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-infrared-mirror-coating-obstacle-gravitational.html", "summary": "Researchers have developed and tested a new locking method for gravitational wave detectors that will advance the discovery of distant black holes and neutron stars colliding.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Judging strangers' preferences may actually be easier when they're less like our own", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-strangers-easier-theyre.html", "summary": "Researchers already know that humans have a tendency to use egocentric anchoring—a cognitive bias in which people use their own preferences, beliefs and perspectives as a mental starting point (or anchor) to understand or predict what another person thinks, feels or prefers. This", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:40:02 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Essential oil sprays kill cockroaches on contact but offer little lasting control", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-essential-oil-sprays-cockroaches-contact.html", "summary": "A German cockroach races across a kitchen floor. Someone grabs a bottle of essential oil spray, soaks the insect and watches it die. The product worked, but a new University of Kentucky study suggests the larger infestation probably did not notice.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:20:07 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Wider approach needed to mitigate rising rechargeable battery emissions", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-wider-approach-mitigate-rechargeable-battery.html", "summary": "A new University of Melbourne-led study has identified insights and evidence that could help mitigate the fast-rising climate impact of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs).", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:10:02 EDT", "image": null } ] }