/ en-us ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics, ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In everyday life, all matter exists as either a gas, liquid, or solid. In quantum mechanics, however, it is possible for two distinct states to exist simultaneously. An ultracold quantum system, for instance, can exhibit the properties of both a fluid and a solid at the same time. /news/2025-08-superfluid-simultaneously-solid.html Soft Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:12:03 EDT news675605521 The mysterious substance called dark matter is intrinsically invisible. It cannot be directly observed—rather, its presence is inferred by its gravitational influence on the universe, such as binding galaxy clusters together and moving stars around their galaxy faster than they should. /news/2025-08-deep-beneath-french-alps-scientists.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:57:05 EDT news674899021 More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. /news/2025-08-apollo-moon-sample-years-evidence.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:26:04 EDT news674828762 Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is the most preferable system for live-cell super-resolution imaging. It enables the observation of intricate subcellular dynamics. However, conventional SIM has long relied on the complex rotation of one-dimensional stripe illumination at three angles, requiring nine exposures to reconstruct a uniform super-resolution image. This greatly hinders imaging speed and causes unnecessary photobleaching, limiting the available information flux in live-cell imaging. /news/2025-08-triangle-illumination-microscopy-sustained-cell.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:00:33 EDT news674748026 Half of the sun's radiant energy falls outside of the visible spectrum. On a cold day, this extra infrared light provides additional warmth to residential and commercial buildings. On a warm day, it leads to unwanted heating that must be dealt with through energy-intensive climate control methods such as air-conditioning. /news/2025-08-carbon-nanotube-smart-windows-energy.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:50:02 EDT news674747401 Topological spin textures, spatially organized patterns linked to the intrinsic angular momentum of particles, have proved to be highly advantageous for the development of spintronics and quantum technologies. One of the most studied among these textures are skyrmionic textures, which are two-dimensional and stable patterns of spin orientation. Recently, the study of skyrmionic textures has gained significant attention in the field of optics and photonics, revealing novel physical properties and promising potential applications. /news/2025-08-topological-textures-scientists-micro-materials.html Optics & Photonics Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:30:02 EDT news674392450 Early in the pandemic, most research, including our own, focused on designing drugs that could block the virus's spike protein. This was a logical first step, but as we've seen, the virus is a moving target. It was rapidly evolving, and new variants acquired resistance due to changes in the surface spike glycoprotein (S protein). /news/2025-08-human-protein-ace2-modulation-entry.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:50:02 EDT news674394408 Anomalies in temperature and salinity that originate in the midlatitude North Atlantic can affect the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in the Nordic Seas up to a decade later. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment shows that the anomalies that travel northward with the Atlantic Water are an important part of the system, and actively modulate both the inflow of warm water into the Nordic Seas and the overflow of dense water back into the deep Atlantic. /news/2025-08-ocean-anomalies-north-crucial-atlantic.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:39:04 EDT news674131142 Tropical cyclones, commonly known as typhoons or hurricanes, can form in clusters and impact coastal regions back-to-back. For example, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria hit the U.S. sequentially within one month in 2017. The Federal Emergency Management Agency failed to provide adequate support to hurricane victims in Puerto Rico when Maria struck because most rescue resources and specialized disaster staffers were deployed for the responses to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. /news/2025-08-north-atlantic-hurricane-clusters-climate.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:36:03 EDT news673871761 Researchers at Texas A&M University have uncovered how to more efficiently convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful fuels and chemicals, offering a potential boost to both environmental sustainability and local economies. /news/2025-08-circular-chemistry-approach-carbon-dioxide.html Materials Science Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:38:50 EDT news673529925 Researchers have created a microphone that listens with light instead of sound. Unlike traditional microphones, this visual microphone captures tiny vibrations on the surfaces of objects caused by sound waves and turns them into audible signals. /news/2025-07-based-visual-microphone.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:00:03 EDT news673093081 A new method to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into ethylene using significantly less energy than existing approaches could help cut emissions from one of the world's most carbon-intensive manufacturing processes. /news/2025-07-catalyst-lowers-energy-ethylene.html Materials Science Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:00:04 EDT news673171137 Coral restoration efforts could be dramatically improved with technologies that support the survival and growth of baby corals, suggests a new study. /news/2025-07-combining-arrays-3d-modules-survival.html Ecology Biotechnology Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:31:23 EDT news673014673 Perovskite is a rising star in the field of materials science. The mineral is a cheaper, more efficient alternative to existing photovoltaic materials like silicon, a semiconductor used in solar cells. Now, new research has shown that applying pressure to the material can alter and fine-tune its structures—and thus properties—for a variety of applications. /news/2025-07-perovskite-layers-capabilities.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:19:03 EDT news673010341 As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The results are published in Nature Chemical Engineering. /news/2025-07-device-plastic-fuel-catalyst-free.html Materials Science Mon, 28 Jul 2025 09:00:06 EDT news672911667 Topological materials are a class of materials that exhibit unique electronic properties at their boundary (surface in 3D materials; edge in 2D materials) that are robust against imperfections or disturbances and are markedly different from their bulk properties. In other words, these materials could be insulators (i.e., resisting the flow of electrons or heat), and yet be conducting at their boundary (i.e., allowing electrons or heat to easily flow through them). /news/2025-07-uncover-topological-excitonic-insulator-tunable.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:30:01 EDT news672571742 Quantum confinement is a physical effect that occurs when the size of a material—usually a semiconductor or conductor—is reduced to the nanoscale, thereby restricting the movement of electrons or holes. /news/2025-07-quantum-confinement-physical-downsizing.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:09 EDT news672420002 Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, is predicted to account for most of the universe's mass. While theoretical predictions hint at its abundance, detecting this elusive matter has so far proved to be very difficult, leaving its composition and origin a mystery. /news/2025-07-lux-zeplin-stringent-constraints-cosmic.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:50:01 EDT news672310715 In the race to develop faster and more flexible wireless communication technologies, researchers are turning to an unexpected source: the same organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) found in smartphone screens and TVs. /news/2025-07-oleds-faster-longer-distance-wireless.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:50:02 EDT news672043263 High school students learn that Pavlov's dogs were conditioned to associate the sound of a bell with getting food. The association was so strong that the dogs would begin to salivate when they heard the bell, before there was even a whiff of food. When they were finally presented with the food, they ate it. /news/2025-07-pavlov-dogs-conditioned-animals-interact.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:20:12 EDT news671815205 Artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT are notorious for being power-hungry. To tackle this challenge, a team from the Center for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) has come up with an optical chip that can transfer massive amounts of data at ultra-high speed. As thin as a strand of hair, this technology offers unrivaled energy efficiency. /news/2025-07-significantly-optical-chip.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:03 EDT news671444755 In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, water managers often asked him about the drought in the Southwest. Was the low precipitation simply an unlucky draw in the cycle of long-term weather variations? What role did climate change play? Most importantly, was the drought there to stay? /news/2025-07-climate-aerosols-persistent-drought-rainfall.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:28:04 EDT news671282881 A new study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the massive current of Arctic air that regulates weather for much of the Northern Hemisphere. /news/2025-06-climate-link-wild-winter-jet.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:01 EDT news669638701 Lasers have widespread applications as a light source in a variety of fields, including manufacturing, medicine, high-speed communications, electronics, and scientific research. /news/2025-06-mode-lasers-tunable-pulse-duration.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:57:04 EDT news669391022 As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years, new research from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has found that lunar dust is less harmful to human lung cells than previously feared, and significantly less toxic than common Earth-based air pollution. /news/2025-06-abrasive-lunar-toxic-city-pollution.html Space Exploration Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:15:31 EDT news669374127 A new platform for engineering chiral electron pathways offers potential fresh insights into a quantum phenomenon discovered by chemists—and exemplifies how the second quantum revolution is fostering transdisciplinary collaborations that bridge physics, chemistry, and biology to tackle fundamental questions. /news/2025-06-quantum-spirals-programmable-platform-ways.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:00:03 EDT news668940541 A study nearly 10 years in the making has shed new insight into how oxides can regularly sustain themselves, using the oxygen inherent in their own structures. /news/2025-06-oxide-catalysts-sustain-reactors.html Analytical Chemistry Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:57:14 EDT news668876222 Food scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign identified the optimal fermentation conditions for pulses ― the dried edible seeds of legumes ― that increased their antioxidant and antidiabetic properties and their soluble protein content. /news/2025-06-fermenting-legume-pulses-antioxidant-antidiabetic.html Agriculture Sat, 07 Jun 2025 06:18:38 EDT news668495911 A new avenue for targeted drug delivery has been proposed by researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their findings, published in Materials Today Bio, report the first successful application of metabolic labeling in platelets. /news/2025-05-metabolic-platelets-possibilities-drug-delivery.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 29 May 2025 16:22:04 EDT news667754521 Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment. A team of researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) has contributed to an important discovery about how cells move, or migrate, through this maze of bodily tissues, using the fruit fly egg chamber as a model system. Potential implications include better understanding of diseases like cancer and advancing medical treatments. /news/2025-05-mathematical-imaging-reveal-migrating-cells.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 29 May 2025 15:12:04 EDT news667750322