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  "entity": "StudentNews",
  "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture",
  "domain": "studentnews.net",
  "vertical": "Science & Discovery",
  "count": 18,
  "generated_at": "2026-10-12T08:28:40.329Z",
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Rescued weather records reveal hot days became nearly twice as common in the Congo Basin over two decades",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-weather-reveal-hot-days-common.html",
      "summary": "New research led by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and published in the journal Earth System Dynamics shows a clear warming signal across the Congo Basin since the 1960s, using historical weather records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). These records come from t",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Wildlife populations have declined 73% since 1970—but many of the world's animals still aren't being counted",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-wildlife-populations-declined-world-animals.html",
      "summary": "Wildlife populations around the world have declined by an average of 73% since 1970. That's according to the WWF's new 2026 Living Planet Index—a major estimate, updated every two years, of the changing state of nature. This does not mean that 73% of the world's animals have disa",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:30:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "'DNA Typewriter' records cells' history in developing mouse embryo",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-dna-typewriter-cells-history-mouse.html",
      "summary": "Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing the family tree of cells in a developing mouse embryo. They recorded cells' relationships, starting when the fertilized egg first split in two and ending after the body and its organs took shape. That period lasted 13.5 days. (Full gest",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:20:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Quantum 'birthmarks' hold lasting traces of a system's past",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-quantum-birthmarks.html",
      "summary": "Some classical physical systems can explore many configurations over time until their long-term behavior no longer reveals their starting conditions. The sampling of available configurations according to the appropriate statistical distribution is a property called ergodicity.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:20:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "New study shows effects of hypoxia in Florida's Banana River",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-effects-hypoxia-florida-banana-river.html",
      "summary": "A new study by Florida Tech assistant professor of marine sciences Austin Fox, Ph.D. '15, found that low oxygen levels are contributing to the rerelease of nutrients buried on the river floor that feed harmful algal blooms. The study was based on the most widespread testing ever ",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:00:07 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Conservation groups alarmed at marine mammals' deaths in Spain",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-groups-alarmed-marine-mammals-deaths.html",
      "summary": "Conservation groups on Sunday condemned the death of a dolphin transferred from France to a Spanish marine park, saying it added to the deaths of other sea mammals recently moved to Spain from Canada.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:31:37 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Indonesia releases eight orangutans rescued from fires to protected forest",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-indonesia-orangutans-forest.html",
      "summary": "Eight orangutans rescued in recent weeks from blazes that tore through Borneo island have been released into a protected forest, Indonesian authorities and rescuers said on Sunday.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:40:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "At least 4 dead as cyclone Isaias drenches southern U.S.",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-dead-cyclone-isaias-drenches-southern.html",
      "summary": "Four people died in the southeastern United States as post-tropical cyclone Isaias posed flooding and tornado risks Saturday as it moved northward after making landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:20:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Jurassic fossil reveals ancient origins of how mammals drink milk",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-jurassic-fossil-reveals-ancient-mammals.html",
      "summary": "An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence illuminating the evolutionary origins of one of the defining features of mammals: the ability to suckle and consume milk during infancy. Their findings, published in Nature, suggest that key anatomical structures req",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:04 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Hurricane Simon strengthens as it nears western Mexico",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-hurricane-simon-nears-western-mexico.html",
      "summary": "Hurricane Simon strengthened into a powerful Category 4 storm and was expected to make landfall or skirt the coast of west-central Mexico on Sunday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "South Korea completes trial of Arctic shipping route",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-south-korea-trial-arctic-shipping.html",
      "summary": "A South Korean container ship returned on Sunday from a trial voyage through the Arctic, testing an alternative route opened by melting sea ice as conflict in the Middle East disrupts global shipping.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:40:02 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Egypt's Fayoum mummy portraits to travel abroad for first time after restoration",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-egypt-fayoum-mummy-portraits.html",
      "summary": "Egypt unveiled Sunday a restored version of the \"Tondo of the Two Brothers,\" a prized second-century painting from the famed Fayoum portraits.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:26:35 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "New algorithm could predict Arctic sea ice up to 9 months ahead, offering new climate insights",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-algorithm-arctic-sea-ice-months.html",
      "summary": "Researchers at the Mubadala Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences (ACCESS) at NYU Abu Dhabi have developed a new algorithm that can forecast Arctic sea ice extent up to nine months in advance, offering a new way to anticipate changes in the Arctic that can affect ",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:00:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Spinach nanoparticles help failing rat hearts via 'borrowed photosynthesis'",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-spinach-nanoparticles-rat-hearts-photosynthesis.html",
      "summary": "A spinach leaf can turn light into chemical energy. A struggling heart cannot. Researchers in China have brought part of the leaf's energy-making machinery into rat heart cells to test whether borrowed photosynthesis could help an overworked heart.",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:40:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "The eye has a hidden cleanup system scientists never knew existed",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005254.htm",
      "summary": "Scientists have discovered a hidden cleanup system at the back of the eye that drains fluid and waste through a previously unknown pathway. The surprising finding, demonstrated in mice, could open the door to new treatments for glaucoma, macular degeneration, and other causes of ",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:01:54 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Scientists build a nuclear clock that could make atomic clocks obsolete",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008102701.htm",
      "summary": "Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise atomic clocks. Instead of relying on electrons in atoms, the clock uses the tiny n",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:06:35 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Neanderthals may have used prehistoric glue as an ancient antibiotic",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/10/261008005256.htm",
      "summary": "Neanderthals may have used a sticky substance made from birch bark to treat wounds thousands of years before antibiotics existed. Researchers recreated ancient birch tar production techniques and discovered that every sample could inhibit the growth of bacteria responsible for da",
      "source": "sciencedaily.com",
      "published": "Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:45:37 EDT",
      "image": null
    },
    {
      "title": "Zimbabwe's dinosaurs were different from South Africa's: New species offers clues",
      "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-zimbabwe-dinosaurs-south-africa-species.html",
      "summary": "Africa boasts up to 25% of Earth's animal and plant species. This diversity is driven by varied habitats: harsh deserts, vast grasslands, dense forests, towering mountains, lush coastlines and teeming seas. It is also due to deep evolutionary roots, as many animal and plant group",
      "source": "phys.org",
      "published": "Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:30:01 EDT",
      "image": null
    }
  ]
}