{ "entity": "EngineeringNews", "subtitle": "An eCorp Venture", "domain": "engineeringnews.net", "vertical": "Science & Discovery", "count": 18, "generated_at": "2026-05-28T06:35:01.535Z", "articles": [ { "title": "Scientists discover hidden gut-brain circuit that triggers protein cravings", "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260527023202.htm", "summary": "When the body runs low on protein, the gut sends powerful signals to the brain that reshape cravings and push animals to seek essential amino acids instead of sugar. Researchers say this newly discovered gut-brain network could transform our understanding of appetite, nutrition, ", "source": "sciencedaily.com", "published": "Thu, 28 May 2026 00:35:19 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "The definitive census of multiple star systems within ten parsecs", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-definitive-census-multiple-star-ten.html", "summary": "Our sun is a loner. It lacks a stellar companion hurtling through interstellar space with it. But we've known for a long time that that's actually relatively rare—most stars have at least one gravitationally bound partner. Understanding how exactly those stars are related to each", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 22:00:02 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Listening to the sun reveals previously hidden changes to solar cycle", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-sun-reveals-previously-hidden-solar.html", "summary": "Internal changes due to the sun's \"active biorhythm\" have become increasingly \"skin-deep\" over the past four solar activity cycles, according to a new study.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 20:10:02 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "How the greenhouse effect governs temperature changes across Antarctica", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-greenhouse-effect-temperature-antarctica.html", "summary": "A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, noticed an odd pattern while sifting through temperature records from the end of the last ice age in Antarctica. The records seemed to defy p", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 19:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Expanded susceptibility and transmission in circulating avian influenza viruses reshape wild bird mortality", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-susceptibility-transmission-circulating-avian-influenza.html", "summary": "Johanna Harvey, an assistant professor of wildlife disease ecology at the University of Rhode Island, has described bird flu in public presentations as a quiet virus with loud consequences. Now, she's published a new paper in Wildlife Monographs, describing how circulating avian ", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 19:20:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Temporary carbon removal could help support climate goals, if used correctly", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-temporary-carbon-climate-goals.html", "summary": "Persistent methane emissions from sectors such as agriculture and growing debates over the credibility of carbon offsets are creating new challenges for governments and companies pursuing net-zero commitments. New research suggests that temporary carbon storage may have a scienti", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 19:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Newly discovered 'thunder' of Atlantic sturgeons inspires awe", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-newly-thunder-atlantic-sturgeons-awe.html", "summary": "When a team of researchers recorded a low thundering underneath the surface of the Hudson River, they thought they were hearing the muffled rumble of trains. A closer look and listen led to a much more interesting discovery: The thunder came from Atlantic sturgeon—an iconic and e", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 19:00:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Monkey see, monkey do: Study sheds light on cooperative decision-making", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-monkey-cooperative-decision.html", "summary": "The old \"monkey see, monkey do\" adage may rest on some neuroscientific evidence, finds a new Yale study. To examine how the primate brain facilitates cooperative behavior among individuals during social interaction, a team of researchers trained pairs of marmoset monkeys to coope", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 18:40:04 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Scientists forecast milder Chesapeake Bay dead zone in 2026", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-scientists-milder-chesapeake-bay-dead.html", "summary": "Scientists at William & Mary's Batten School & VIMS, FlowWest and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently announced that the Chesapeake Bay's annual \"dead zone\" is expected to be relatively mild this summer.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 18:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "DNA 'nicks' make for safer, more precise genetic analysis", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-dna-nicks-safer-precise-genetic.html", "summary": "Researchers at Cornell University have developed a safer and more precise way to study how genes function in living tissues by refining a recently developed CRISPR-based genetic technique in fruit flies, enabling researchers to better study how genes contribute to development and", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 18:20:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Researchers push back fundamental limit on energy transfer between particles without 'spilling' radiation", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-fundamental-limit-energy-particles.html", "summary": "Researchers at TU/e have demonstrated that energy transfer without loss via light or heat can occur over much greater distances than previously thought possible thanks to vibrations in microscopic gold rods. They succeeded in making energy jump from one particle to another over a", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Metamaterials enable control of heat transfer at nanoscale, potentially transforming energy and electronics", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-metamaterials-enable-nanoscale-potentially-energy.html", "summary": "Heat behaves in predictable ways: a hot cup of coffee cools, a laptop warms your hands, the sun heats Earth. But at scales thousands of times smaller than a human hair, those rules begin to break down, and scientists are learning how to take advantage of that.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Where are all the intermediate mass black holes? Microlensing fast radio bursts might reveal them", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-intermediate-mass-black-holes-microlensing.html", "summary": "Astrophysicists think that black hole masses are hierarchical. The largest are supermassive black holes (SMBH) like the one at the center of the Milky Way and other galaxies. Stellar mass black holes are born of collapsing stars, and are smaller. The smallest of all are the theor", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Are the chemicals around you safe? Researchers are using AI to find out", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-chemicals-safe-ai.html", "summary": "People are exposed to thousands of chemicals every day—through the products they use, the food they eat and the environments they live in—but only a fraction of those chemicals have been fully tested for safety.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:20:13 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Early childhood educators change how they speak to toddlers depending on gender, finds study", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-early-childhood-toddlers-gender.html", "summary": "Early childhood educators speak differently to boys compared to girls in toddler classrooms, University of Queensland research has found.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:20:06 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Analysis of more than 10,000 cities reveals hidden details governments can use to better support their people", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-analysis-cities-reveals-hidden-people.html", "summary": "The world's urban population increased by 785 million people between 2000 and 2020, but that tells only part of the story. Now, a research team including an expert from the University of Michigan has dug into the demographics of more than 10,000 individual cities to obtain insigh", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:10:01 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "Corn Belt groundwater and irrigation boost thunderstorm complexes by 24–35%, simulations show", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-corn-belt-groundwater-irrigation-boost.html", "summary": "An international team of scientists has demonstrated how powerful thunderstorm complexes over the U.S. Corn Belt are fueled by moisture rising from the region's fertile fields or just beneath them. The findings can lead to better and longer-term weather forecasts for this critica", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:00:05 EDT", "image": null }, { "title": "AI ads are almost indistinguishable from human-made work—they just don't perform as well", "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ai-ads-indistinguishable-human-dont.html", "summary": "Ads generated by artificial intelligence are nearly indistinguishable from human-made ones, but new research shows they consistently underperform compared to human-made work when it comes to predicting short-term sales impact.", "source": "phys.org", "published": "Wed, 27 May 2026 17:00:04 EDT", "image": null } ] }