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  "entity": "StudentNewsletter",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "studentnewsletter.com",
  "vertical": "Science & Discovery",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-07-18T15:48:46.011Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Scale can measure university students' confidence in using AI",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-scale-university-students-confidence-ai.html",
      "summary": "A study conducted at Koç University School of Nursing examined university students' perceived self-efficacy in using artificial intelligence technologies. Led by Associate Professor Remziye Semerci Şahin and Assistant Professor Seda Güney, the researchers adapted the Artificial I",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:20:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Study demonstrates the importance of emotional support from pets for vulnerable people",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-importance-emotional-pets-vulnerable-people.html",
      "summary": "People experiencing homelessness, victims of domestic violence and economically vulnerable people are at higher risk of social exclusion. For them, pets are an important source of emotional support. A study by the Affinity Foundation Chair for Animals and Health of the Universita",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "New super strong glue grips non-stick surfaces and wipes away easily",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-super-strong-surfaces-easily.html",
      "summary": "In a research lab at the University of Tokyo, scientists have developed a new kind of glue. It's incredibly strong and highly stretchable, yet it washes away completely with a little alcohol.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:40:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Half a century of sightings reveals Ireland remains a haven for endangered basking sharks",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-century-sightings-reveals-ireland-haven.html",
      "summary": "Ireland's waters continue to provide an important seasonal refuge for the endangered basking shark, according to a new study.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:00:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Heat-stressed cells use nuclear stress bodies to restart RNA splicing, study finds",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-stressed-cells-nuclear-stress-bodies.html",
      "summary": "If you want to beat the heat of the summer sun, slowing down and doing less is a good strategy. However, researchers have long asked whether the same occurs at the cellular level. While cellular stress responses have been repeatedly studied, the impact of the environment on these",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260717033213.htm",
      "summary": "Several popular sugar substitutes may not be as harmless as they seem. Adults who consumed the most artificial sweeteners showed substantially faster declines in memory and thinking, especially if they were under 60 or had diabetes. The highest intake was linked to cognitive agin",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:55:57 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "How quantum circuits based on neutral atoms could find and fix errors",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-quantum-circuits-based-neutral-atoms.html",
      "summary": "Quantum computers, devices that process information by leveraging the laws of quantum mechanics, have been found to outperform classical computers in some advanced tasks. Instead of storing information in the form of classical binary bits (i.e., 0 or 1), quantum computers rely on",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:20:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023559.htm",
      "summary": "A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway controlled by Jupiter, sending fragments toward Earth, the Moon, and Mars. The bombardmen",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:00:33 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "India successfully launches first private orbital rocket",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-india-successfully-private-orbital-rocket.html",
      "summary": "India's first privately built orbital rocket took its maiden flight Saturday, its company said, marking a significant step for the South Asian giant as it eyes a bigger slice of the global space economy.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:36:46 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Earth’s biggest volcanic event transformed an entire oceanic plate",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023618.htm",
      "summary": "Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the colossal volcanic activity that created it more than 100 million years ago. Researchers found a complex structure of horizontal layers cut through by vast swarms",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:36:03 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "How physics and mathematical modeling help us make better clothes",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-physics-mathematical.html",
      "summary": "A new paper in the journal Nature Physics offers insights into the physics of liquid droplets—and while many people may not appreciate the mathematical accomplishment, they will benefit from the athletic wear and raincoats it makes possible. The recent article, \"Tricky Tension,\" ",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:30:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "AI unlocks QLED recipe that doubles efficiency and boosts lifetime 40-fold",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-ai-qled-recipe-efficiency-boosts.html",
      "summary": "A technology has been developed that allows artificial intelligence to inversely determine the process conditions for quantum-dot light-emitting diode (QLED) devices—conditions that previously required extensive trial and error to identify.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:09 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "UN to list more sites as 'in danger' from conflict or climate change",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-sites-danger-conflict-climate.html",
      "summary": "The United Nations looks set to list a Biblical site, Lebanese castles, an antelope migration path and the world's deepest lake as world treasures under threat, including from war or climate change.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota pushes farther into the US and engulfs DC in haze",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-wildfire-canada-minnesota-engulfs-dc.html",
      "summary": "Millions of people in the Great Lakes, Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states muddled through another day of unhealthy air from uncontrolled wildfires on Friday.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:30:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "'Chainsaw massacre': Europe mulls culls for fish-guzzling cormorant",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-chainsaw-massacre-europe-mulls-culls.html",
      "summary": "Europe's great cormorant has recovered from near extinction to overabundance in half a century, stoking a long-running debate over population control between fishers troubled by its voracious appetite and conservationists.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:20:03 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Far above the Earth, NASA's Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-earth-nasa-apollo-lunar-lander.html",
      "summary": "America's most daring, extraordinary feat—landing astronauts on the moon—remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere. Ever.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:00:34 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "NASA’s James Webb catches a supermassive black hole feeding",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260716023601.htm",
      "summary": "JWST has captured unusually detailed images of gas feeding the supermassive black hole at the center of NGC 4696. A vast filament appears to funnel material into an 800-light-year-wide spinning disk, where gas races around at up to 600 kilometers per second. The findings suggest ",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:09:35 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "FCC approves first launch for space reflector constellation",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-07-fcc-space-reflector-constellation.html",
      "summary": "Reflect Orbital moves ahead with the company's first Eärendil launch amid concerns from the astronomical community.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    }
  ]
}