/ en-us 糖心视频 internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: 糖心视频ics, 糖心视频, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with an electrical charge鈥攆rom an individual atom to a large particle鈥攅xperiences a force that can be used to push it in a desired direction. /news/2025-11-electric-fields-nanoparticles-liquid-maze.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:50:06 EST news682098412 Viscous fingering occurs when a thinner fluid pushes a thicker, more viscous fluid in a porous medium, like underground rock, creating unpredictable, finger-like patterns. For decades, this intricate dance between fluids has been a major headache in critical sectors like enhanced oil recovery, CO2 sequestration, and groundwater remediation. Predicting and controlling these "fingers" has remained an elusive goal for scientists, largely due to the sheer complexity of the fluid dynamics involved. /news/2025-11-century-puzzle-ai-viscous-fingering.html Soft Matter Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:36:18 EST news682083369 New studies from Arizona State University reveal surprising ways bacteria can move without their flagella鈥攖he slender, whip-like propellers that usually drive them forward. /news/2025-11-bacteria-sugar-fueled-currents-molecular.html Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 08 Nov 2025 15:51:12 EST news681839461 Saliva is a bodily fluid most of us take for granted despite the significant roles it plays: aiding in digestion, maintaining strong teeth and defending against oral disease. However, the evolution of human saliva has been largely unknown鈥攗ntil now, thanks to two University at Buffalo faculty members and two graduate students. /news/2025-11-evolution-human-saliva-tracked-primates.html Evolution Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:15:42 EST news681732935 From stirring milk in your coffee to fearsome typhoon gales, rotating turbulent flows are everywhere. Yet, these spinning currents are as scientifically complex as they are banal. Describing, modeling, and predicting turbulent flows have important implications across many fields, from weather forecasting to studying the formation of planets in the accretion disk of nascent stars. /news/2025-11-paradox-rotating-turbulence-hurricane-lab.html General 糖心视频ics Soft Matter Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:00:12 EST news681553982 A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate 糖心视频ics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea, presents new evidence that ocean turbulence and a process known as "horizontal stirring" will increase dramatically in the Arctic and Southern Oceans due to human-induced global warming and decreasing sea ice coverage. /news/2025-11-polar-ocean-turbulence-sea-ice.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:02:18 EST news681562931 A new study into how spaceflight impacts the human brain and eyes revealed notable sex differences in brain fluid shifts, with female astronauts showing a greater reduction in fluid around the uppermost part of the brain than their male counterparts. /news/2025-10-spaceflight-reveals-men-greater-eye.html Space Exploration Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:23:03 EDT news680973781 A new method developed at the University of Warwick offers the first simple and predictive way to calculate how irregularly shaped nanoparticles鈥攁 dangerous class of airborne pollutant鈥攎ove through the air. /news/2025-10-century-equation-movement-dangerous-air.html General 糖心视频ics Soft Matter Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:10:01 EDT news680779082 During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens. It's better for the patient if urologists can break kidney stones down as finely as possible, ideally to a dust that can be safely suctioned out鈥攂ut using more powerful lasers creates additional heat that can damage surrounding tissue and hurt the patient. /news/2025-10-nanoparticle-solution-lasers-pulverize-kidney.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:38:12 EDT news680888288 In vertebrates, calcium is stored in bones, and its release is tightly regulated. Now, using fruit flies as a model organism, researchers at University of Tsukuba have shown that even animals without bones possess specialized organs for calcium storage, along with an endocrine system that releases calcium via hormonal signals in response to deficiency. /news/2025-10-boneless-insects-endocrine-calcium-fruit.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:45:03 EDT news680517901 University of Queensland researchers have created a microscopic "ocean" on a silicon chip to miniaturize the study of wave dynamics. The device, made at UQ's School of Mathematics and 糖心视频ics, uses a layer of superfluid helium only a few millionths of a millimeter thick on a chip smaller than a grain of rice. /news/2025-10-microscopic-ocean-chip-reveals-nonlinear.html Soft Matter Quantum 糖心视频ics Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:01:03 EDT news680457662 Brazilian researchers have developed a technique that estimates the force exerted on each grain of sand in a dune from images. This method, which is based on numerical simulations and artificial intelligence (AI), transforms the study of granular system dynamics and paves the way for investigating previously unmeasurable physical processes. Applications range from civil engineering to space exploration. /news/2025-10-technique-grain-sand-dune.html Earth Sciences Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:14:04 EDT news680451241 Using simulations, robots, and live fish, scientists at EPFL and Duke University have replicated the neural circuitry that allows zebrafish to react to visual stimuli and maintain their position in flowing water. They provide a complete picture of how brain circuits, body mechanics, and the environment work together to control behavior. /news/2025-10-roboticists-reverse-zebrafish-sensorimotor.html Plants & Animals Biotechnology Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:18:22 EDT news680357887 What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical signaling that powers the simplest organisms? Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering have modeled just that鈥攁 synthetic system that on its own directly transforms chemical reactions into mechanical motion, without the need for the complex biochemical machinery present in our bodies. /news/2025-10-chemical-networks-mimic-nervous-power.html Biochemistry Materials Science Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:29:04 EDT news680196542 EPFL researchers have discovered that a droplet of liquid can bounce for several minutes鈥攁nd perhaps indefinitely鈥攐ver a vibrating solid surface. The seemingly simple observation has big implications for physics and chemistry. /news/2025-10-tiny-droplets-minutes-indefinitely.html General 糖心视频ics Soft Matter Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:38:03 EDT news680179081 An international team of scientists has unveiled the most comprehensive model yet that explains how cells control the flow of materials in and out of their nuclei鈥攕olving one of biology's oldest mysteries. The breakthrough, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sheds light on a process that goes awry in cancer, viral infections, and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and ALS. /news/2025-10-molecular-reveals-cells-traffic-nucleus.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:27:38 EDT news680178451 Shock waves should not be shocking鈥攅ngineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage. Now, thanks to a team from Yokohama National University, those predictions are even better understood. /news/2025-10-behavior-precise.html General 糖心视频ics Soft Matter Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:24:03 EDT news679922641 To help mitigate climate change, companies are using bioreactors to grow algae and other microorganisms that are hundreds of times more efficient at absorbing CO2 than trees. Meanwhile, in the pharmaceutical industry, cell culture is used to manufacture biologic drugs and other advanced treatments, including lifesaving gene and cell therapies. /news/2025-10-sticky-cell-problem-bioreactors-industries.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:34:32 EDT news679808066 When Darwin Quiroz first started working with optics as an undergraduate, he was developing atomic magnetometers. That experience sparked a growing curiosity about how light interacts with matter, an interest that has now led him to a new technique in optical imaging. /news/2025-10-fluid-based-laser-scanning-brain.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:59:03 EDT news679748341 Corals, the foundation of ocean biodiversity, are threatened by climate change. But new research suggests that these organisms might be more resilient than previously thought. /news/2025-10-corals-climate.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:10:05 EDT news678549714 Bloch oscillations are periodic oscillations of quantum particles in a repeating energy "landscape" (e.g., a crystal lattice) that are subjected to a constant force. These particle motions have been the focus of numerous physics studies, as they are intriguing quantum effects that are not predicted by classical mechanics theories. /news/2025-09-bloch-oscillations-1d-bose-gas.html General 糖心视频ics Quantum 糖心视频ics Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:30:01 EDT news677738013 A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living robots may one day be able to traverse through the body's complex environments to deliver desired therapeutic or mechanical interventions, once greater control is achieved over their motility patterns. In new research published in Science Advances, the group provides a novel tissue engineering platform capable of achieving customizable motility in AggreBots by actively controlling their structural parameters. /news/2025-09-aggrebots-tiny-robots-lung-cells.html Biotechnology Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:17:40 EDT news678176253 Researchers have built on past studies and introduced new methods to explore the nature and role of subsurface fluids, including water, in the instances and behaviors of earthquakes and volcanoes. Their study suggests that water, even heavy rainfall, can play a role in or even trigger seismic events. This could potentially lead to better early warning systems. /news/2025-09-supercritical-subsurface-fluids-window-world.html Earth Sciences Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:00:02 EDT news677773990 Researchers have discovered a novel criterion for sorting particles in microfluidic channels, paving the way for advancements in disease diagnostics and liquid biopsies. Using the supercomputer "Fugaku," a joint team from the University of Osaka, Kansai University and Okayama University revealed that soft particles, like biological cells, exhibit unique focusing patterns compared to rigid particles. /news/2025-09-supercomputer-unveils-cell-principle-microfluidic.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:31:30 EDT news677773881 One of the biggest obstacles on the road to a low-carbon energy future is caused by the rare-earth element lithium, a critical component for the batteries that can store the abundant and sustainable energy from renewable sources. /news/2025-09-density-key-sustainable-lithium-reveals.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:47:04 EDT news677328421 A new study published in the journal Science of The Total Environment has significant bearing on the hackneyed joke about chickens and their numerous reasons for crossing roads. In Florida, there's a good chance that the chicken crossed the road because it had completed its year-long conscripted service as a disease sentinel, a sort of early alarm signal for mosquito virus activity across the state. /news/2025-09-disease-experts-team-museum-west.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:02:07 EDT news677260921 Rising temperatures of the world's oceans threaten to accelerate the melting and splintering of glaciers鈥攖hereby potentially increasing the number of icebergs and, with it, the need to better understand more about their movement and impact. Through a series of experiments, a team of scientists has pinpointed some of the factors that cause icebergs to capsize, offering insights into how climate change may affect Earth's waters. /news/2025-09-ice-capsize-unearths-mechanisms.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:50:22 EDT news677148614 Turbulence is everywhere, yet much about the nature of turbulence remains unknown. During the last decade, physicists have discovered how fluids in a pipe or similar geometry transition from a smooth, laminar state to a turbulent state as their speed increases. /news/2025-09-turbulence-fluid-pipe-discontinuous-transition.html General 糖心视频ics Soft Matter Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:27:57 EDT news676823274 Abiotic organic synthesis during geological processes has long drawn scientific interest, as it is believed to have laid both the material and energetic groundwork for the emergence of early life on Earth. /news/2025-09-iron-laden-fluids-abiotic-synthesis.html Earth Sciences Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:10:04 EDT news676206145 The composition of sweat makes it a valuable diagnostic fluid. While it is mostly water, the small fraction containing electrolytes, metabolic byproducts, and chemical traces can reveal important information about a person's health. Today, commercial sweat-based sensors can already track dehydration, electrolyte loss, and more. One emerging application is the measurement of lactic acid in sweat. /news/2025-09-sugar-based-stabilizer-sensors-acidic.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:54:04 EDT news676198441