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Local microbes persist in wine despite commercial yeast
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Local microbes persist in wine despite commercial yeast

A new study has demonstrated that regional microbial imprints can remain detectable under commercial winemaking conditions. The research, appearing in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, shows that inoculated fermentations do not "override" native microbial diversity and that vineyard management and environmental conditions affect wine quality. The study helps explain why wines from different regions taste distinct even when made with similar techniques and supports regional flavors and branding.

📅 2026-09-09 13:00:06    •    Phys.org
Canada eyes researchers looking to leave 'hostile' US
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Canada eyes researchers looking to leave 'hostile' US

Fed up with funding restrictions surrounding her research on links between climate change and health, American epidemiologist Sheryl Magzamen has left the United States for Canada.

📅 2026-09-09 12:40:02    •    Phys.org
Some police officers use the 'bad guys' label to provide moral clarity
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Some police officers use the 'bad guys' label to provide moral clarity

A new study shows that some U.S. police officers often use the term "bad guys" to describe people who commit crimes, especially when faced with ambiguity in their work. It is a label officers may use to reduce complex and morally challenging situations and contexts into a clearer, more legible framework.

📅 2026-09-09 12:00:01    •    Phys.org
How companies quietly undercut dissent
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How companies quietly undercut dissent

In 2016, when Amazon workers began organizing at a warehouse in Chester, Virginia, the company tracked where employees gathered, posted anti-union messaging in bathroom stalls and held town halls to discourage them. The National Labor Relations Board forced Amazon to admit, in writing, that it had illegally surveilled and threatened workers. The union drive still failed.

📅 2026-09-09 11:40:03    •    Phys.org
A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run
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A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run

Astronomers have found the first direct evidence that a wandering black hole can feed itself by dragging gas along in its wake as it moves through its galaxy. It's the first direct evidence of an accretion channel long predicted in theory but never before observed. The paper describing this discovery was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 11.

📅 2026-09-09 11:30:02    •    Phys.org
Researchers discuss how data center construction could influence voters and impact public land
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Researchers discuss how data center construction could influence voters and impact public land

The construction of new data centers is shaping up to be a defining issue in the 2026 midterm elections. Politicians in both parties have been distancing themselves from data centers in the face of public discontent around the issue, with public backlash leading to the freezing of dozens of data center projects nationwide this year.

📅 2026-09-09 11:20:03    •    Phys.org
Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in
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Have we found alien life? Hundreds of scientists weigh in

Two major alien-life announcements in 2025 generated enormous excitement, but most astrobiologists remained unconvinced. Only 6.6% of surveyed experts thought possible biological molecules on K2-18b probably represented extraterrestrial life, while 15.1% said the same about intriguing mineral patterns in a Martian rock.

📅 2026-09-09 11:13:30    •    ScienceDaily
Q&A: What can rent prices reveal about inflation and the economy?
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Q&A: What can rent prices reveal about inflation and the economy?

Tracking rent prices may help businesses and policymakers understand where inflation is headed months in advance of government inflation reports, according to researchers at Penn State's Smeal College of Business who developed the Penn State/ACY Alternative Inflation Index. The Penn State index was recently incorporated into the Bloomberg Terminal, a software system that serves financial professionals with real-time market data, news and analytics.

📅 2026-09-09 11:00:01    •    Phys.org
Hurricane Lowell lashes Hawaii's western islands
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Hurricane Lowell lashes Hawaii's western islands

Hurricane Lowell lashed Hawaii with damaging winds, heavy rainfall and powerful floods, knocking out power for 91% of a western island as it pushed farther into the Pacific on Tuesday.

📅 2026-09-09 10:46:57    •    Phys.org
Diagnostic dilemma: Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectum
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Diagnostic dilemma: Fisher's colon punctured by eel that snuck in through his rectum

The patient: A 55-year-old man in BangladeshThe symptoms: The man went to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain that he said began five hours prior to his visit. What happened next: During a physical examination, doctors noted that the patient's temperature and blood pressure were normal. His heartbeat was slightly elevated, at 110 beats per minute (bpm). (A typical resting heart rate for adults is 60 to 100 bpm.)The man explained that one day earlier, an eel had "entered through his rectum accidentally," his doctors wrote in a report of the case. At the time of the encounter, the man was wearing a lungi — a type of long skirt often worn by Bangladeshi men — and he explained that the...

📅 2026-09-09 10:00:00    •    Live Science
The science of friendship and loneliness
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The science of friendship and loneliness

Assistant professor of psychology Jessica Ayers’s new research challenges assumptions about the kind of friendships we need

📅 2026-09-09 10:00:00    •    Scientific American
'Drops in the ocean can make waves': How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US
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'Drops in the ocean can make waves': How the grassroots climate movement took off in the US

In this excerpt from "The Carbon Wave" (MIT Press, 2026), author Leah Stokes, an associate professor of environmental politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, looks at a hopeful moment in U.S. politics when climate change took center stage: when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey ramped up calls for a "Green New Deal." In September 2017, a still­-unknown Alexandria Ocasio-­Cortez watched as Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Electricity went down for months. Like thousands of Puerto Ricans, her grandfather died in the storm's aftermath. She could see how climate change was hitting her community harder than others.And it wasn't just Ocasio-­Cortez's communit...

📅 2026-09-09 08:55:51    •    Live Science
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains exceptionally high levels of methanol, suggesting it formed under conditions very different from those that shaped most comets in our solar system. ALMA also revealed that tiny icy grains around the comet are releasing methanol like miniature comets, giving astronomers an unusually detailed look at an object from another star system.

📅 2026-09-09 08:47:39    •    ScienceDaily