{ "entity": "StudentNewsletter", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "studentnewsletter.com", "vertical": "Science & Discovery", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-09-01T23:26:03.542Z", "articles": [ { "title": "Elementary school teachers report increased student hunger and anxiety after universal free school meals ended", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-elementary-school-teachers-student-hunger.html", "summary": "A recent study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explored elementary school teachers' experiences before and after the end of the federal universal free school meals (UFSM) policy. Researchers found that teachers perceived the policy had helped reduce s", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:20:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Survey reveals marine biodiversity hotspot needs protection", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-survey-reveals-marine-biodiversity-hotspot.html", "summary": "An environmental DNA study by a multi-institutional research collaboration has revealed distinct regions of extraordinary marine biodiversity that can help inform management of a proposed marine park in Western Australia's Exmouth Gulf.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:00:03 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "LEDs let archaeologists see the past in a new light", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-archaeologists.html", "summary": "An archaeological excavation is a little like eating a layered cake: Once you have removed a layer, you cannot put it back. The problem becomes even trickier if two layers look almost exactly the same. Researchers from Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum in Denmark have now de", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:40:07 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "To promote climate action, emotion may matter more than information", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-climate-action-emotion.html", "summary": "Every year, public authorities and nongovernmental organizations spend millions on communication campaigns designed to encourage people to take action on climate change. But which strategies work best? Should campaigns rely on fear or positive messages, prioritize facts or appeal", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Giant impact could have formed an intact moon within five hours, simulations suggest", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-giant-impact-intact-moon-hours.html", "summary": "New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, shows fundamental differences in how the moon may have formed from the giant impact that created the Earth–moon system. The new results used state-of-the-art", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:20:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Salt of the Earth: How Egypt's coastal sabkhas tell a story of climate and change", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-salt-earth-egypt-coastal-sabkhas.html", "summary": "Have you ever walked across a salt flat so expansive it feels like another planet? That's what it's like standing in Egypt's coastal sabkhas—those otherworldly landscapes where the ground crunches beneath your feet and the air shimmers with heat. These aren't just barren wastelan", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:00:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Saturn encounter may have set distant centaur on path to becoming a comet", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-saturn-encounter-distant-centaur-path.html", "summary": "More than 3 billion miles (4.8 billion kilometers) from Earth, an ancient icy object is slowly awakening. As it drifts inward through the solar system, the frozen body known as Centaur 450P/LONEOS has begun releasing gas and dust—behavior more commonly associated with comets than", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:00:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Canada's Labrador Shelf preserves climate records once thought erased by ice", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-canada-labrador-shelf-climate-thought.html", "summary": "The Labrador Shelf is a shallow marine area on the margin of the Labrador Sea in the North Atlantic off the east coast of Canada. During the last ice age, this region was covered by the Laurentide Ice Sheet, one of the largest ice masses in Earth's history, which once covered vas", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:40:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "A roadmap for animal-free chemical testing", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-roadmap-animal-free-chemical.html", "summary": "For many years, the European Union has pursued a policy aimed at the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing (the 3Rs principle). To put the ethical principle of the 3Rs into practice, the European Commission has published a roadmap for the gradual phaseout of ani", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:40:02 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "A sustainable flame retardant derived from corn steep liquor", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-sustainable-flame-retardant-derived-corn.html", "summary": "Certain phosphorus compounds are highly effective at suppressing fires, which is why they are widely used in flame retardants. Phosphorus, however, is a finite resource. Estimates suggest it could be depleted within the next 50–300 years. That is why, as part of the ScaleAmP proj", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:20:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Ocean heat waves linked with poorer health among children in coastal communities", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-ocean-linked-poorer-health-children.html", "summary": "Marine heat waves—periods of abnormally warm ocean temperatures—may have negative health effects on children who live in coastal communities in low- and middle-income countries, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel H", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "AI-informed AdaptiveFlow redefines large-scale cloud computing for drug discovery", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-ai-adaptiveflow-redefines-large-scale.html", "summary": "Researchers today announced AdaptiveFlow, an AI-informed platform that can virtually screen billions of drug-like molecules with a 1,000-fold reduction in computational costs over existing methods. Developed and validated by scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:07 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Precision optics to make plant health visible from space", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-precision-optics-health-visible-space.html", "summary": "When the ESA Earth observation mission FLEX launches into space on September 15, 2026, as scheduled, it will carry high-precision optical components from Jena, Germany. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF have developed and man", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Larger catalyst batches could make carbon recycling cheaper and easier to scale", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-larger-catalyst-batches-carbon-recycling.html", "summary": "Turning carbon dioxide into industrial chemicals used in everything from synthetic fuels to plastics and pharmaceuticals is costly. But new research shows it does not have to be.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:40:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Tests reveal how thermoplastic composites lose strength at elevated temperatures", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-reveal-thermoplastic-composites-strength-elevated.html", "summary": "Researchers from Skoltech together with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University and the Blagonravov Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have conducted a systematic study of the flexural properties of pultruded glass fiber composites based on ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Warmer waters, pest species and habitat loss major threats to small, rare freshwater fish", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-warmer-pest-species-habitat-loss.html", "summary": "One of Australia's most comprehensive assessments of endemic, rare or threatened freshwater fish has found numerous species are at severe risk of extinction because of multiple threats, including habitat loss, invasive species and warmer waters.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:20:07 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Watching nanoparticles form in real time uncovers 'missing link' in microwave-assisted manufacturing", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-nanoparticles-real-uncovers-link-microwave.html", "summary": "Advanced materials power everything from batteries and electronics to clean energy technologies. For years, engineers have known that microwave-assisted synthesis can dramatically accelerate the chemical reactions used to manufacture these materials. Now, researchers at Carnegie ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:20:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Where people go shapes urban mixing more than where they live, research finds", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-people-urban.html", "summary": "For millennia, people have been drawn to cities for opportunities, jobs and the possibility of sharing a sidewalk with diverse and interesting groups of people.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:00:11 EDT", "image": null } ] }