/ 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. This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that you, personally, have to go live there. Economists are growing nervous about the collapse of the trillion-dollar AI bubble. And a new study links physical activity levels with the risk of digestive system cancers. /news/2025-11-saturday-citations-black-hole-flare.html Other Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:30:01 EST news681742540 Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or behavior. Specifically, studies show that under magnetic fields above 100 tesla (T), spins (i.e., intrinsic magnetic orientations of electrons) and atoms start forming new arrangements, promoting new phases of matter or stretching a crystal lattice. /news/2025-11-solid-oxygen-crystal-extreme-magnetic.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Condensed Matter Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:30:02 EST news681643943 James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. /news/2025-11-james-watson-discoverer-helix-dna.html Other Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:52:09 EST news681803497 A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose. /news/2025-11-nanoparticles-mrna-delivery-vaccine-dosage.html Bio & Medicine Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:50:01 EST news681738332 For the first time, researchers have made niobium sulfide metallic nanotubes with stable, predictable properties, a long-sought goal in advanced materials science. According to the international team, including a researcher at Penn State, that made the accomplishment, the new nanomaterial that could open the door to faster electronics, efficient electricity transport via superconductor wires and even future quantum computers was made possible with a surprising ingredient: table salt. /news/2025-11-table-salt-enables-metallic-nanotubes.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:41:04 EST news681741662 A team of researchers at the Max Born Institute have managed to fully characterize few-femtosecond-long light pulses tunable in the vacuum ultraviolet. These results unlock the possibility for studying valence electron dynamics of many materials in the VUV. The research is published in the journal Nature Photonics. /news/2025-11-ultrafast-vuv-pulses-fully-characterized.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:07:03 EST news681739621 A team of European researchers has developed a versatile, open-source luminescence imaging instrument designed to democratize access to advanced fluorescence and electroluminescence techniques across disciplines ranging from plant science to materials research. /news/2025-11-source-macroscope-dynamic-luminescence-imaging.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:54:04 EST news681738842 An eco-friendly system capable of producing propylene oxide (PO) without external electricity or sunlight has been developed. PO is a vital raw material used in manufacturing household items such as polyurethane for sofas and mattresses, as well as polyester for textiles and water bottles. /news/2025-11-key-plastic-ingredient-house-generated.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:45:21 EST news681738311 A team of researchers has discovered a new way to make valuable industrial chemicals from propylene using a common, low-cost material: lead dioxide (PbOâ‚‚). /news/2025-11-oxygen-hidden-role-propylene-chemicals.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:52:04 EST news681727922 Long before humans reached orbit, insects had already shown they could handle the hurdles of spaceflight. Light, highly adaptable and nutritionally rich, these resilient animals present an attractive option for European researchers studying reliable food sources for long-duration missions. /news/2025-11-insects-space-menu-sustainable-food.html Space Exploration Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:26:04 EST news681726361 A new collagen fingerprinting tool can help scientists identify species from archaeological bone fragments. Pacific islanders of the late Stone Age, also known as the Neolithic period, were master fishers. Archaeological evidence indicates that these groups caught fish both inshore as well as in open waters. /news/2025-11-stone-age-pacific-fishing-revealed.html Archaeology Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:20:01 EST news681644207 In the world of optics, tiny structures called microcavities—often no wider than a human hair—play a crucial role in technologies ranging from lasers to sensors. /news/2025-11-peering-3d-chaotic-microcavities-ray.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:19:03 EST news681668341 Researchers have been developing computers that deploy light (photons) rather than electricity to power storage and calculations. These light-based computers have the potential to be more energy efficient than traditional computers while also running calculations at greater speeds. /news/2025-11-gyromorphs-combine-liquid-crystal-traits.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:17:03 EST news681668221 Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, computers, and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can't see these electrons, electric currents moving through a conductor flow like water through a pipe to produce electricity. /news/2025-11-quantum-pinball-state-electrons-insulating.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:40:02 EST news681662267 Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances. /news/2025-11-breakthrough-quantum-200x-distance.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:21:08 EST news681661262 Superconductors are like the express trains in a metro system. Any electricity that "boards" a superconducting material can zip through it without stopping and losing energy along the way. As such, superconductors are extremely energy efficient, and are used today to power a variety of applications, from MRI machines to particle accelerators. /news/2025-11-physicists-key-evidence-unconventional-superconductivity.html Superconductivity Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:00:07 EST news681558226 Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle, or stop producing essential molecules. A central part of this network is folate metabolism, a process that provides vital chemical units for the synthesis of DNA, RNA, and amino acids. /news/2025-11-enzyme-doesnt-nudt5-dna-block.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:00:04 EST news681556503 For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals that show electrons teaming up in pairs), which is essential to helping scientists find one of the holy grails of physics—superconductors that work at room temperature. /news/2025-11-quantum-aid-room-temperature-superconductors.html Superconductivity Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:53:49 EST news681659565 Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have used three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (AFM) and molecular dynamics simulations to determine the structure of water in the hydration of different types of chitin nanocrystals and how this affects their mechanical properties, reactivities, and interactions with enzymes and reactants. /news/2025-11-unraveling-effect-chitin-nanocrystals.html Nanomaterials Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:08:04 EST news681656881 Scientists have developed a simple, low-cost method to drive key chemical reactions, which could make large-scale drug manufacturing faster, more accessible and affordable. /news/2025-11-simply-chemical.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:58:03 EST news681652681 Nonlinear optical (NLO) materials play a vital role in modern photonic technology, driving advancements in applications such as laser frequency conversion, ultrafast optical switching, and quantum information processing. Among NLO crystals, borate-based systems have long remained at the forefront of short-wavelength ( /news/2025-11-nonlinear-optical-materials-nm-cutoff.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:38:02 EST news681651481 Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a new method to precisely measure nuclear elasticity—the stiffness or softness of the cell nucleus—in living cells. /news/2025-11-scanning-nanoprobe-microscope-reveals-hidden.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:18:04 EST news681643081 In a study published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Dr. Thomas Leppard and his colleagues, John Cherry and Atholl Anderson, evaluate the evidence for pre-European long-distance voyages below the 50th parallel by Indigenous peoples of the Southern Hemisphere. /news/2025-11-archaeologists-evidence-indigenous-distance-voyaging.html Archaeology Social Sciences Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:30:01 EST news681560372 A test developed by a Florida International University scientist can detect small, elusive hammerheads without ever setting eyes on them—a critical new tool for species fighting for survival. /news/2025-11-environmental-dna-rare-hammerhead-sharks.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:35:03 EST news681582901 Materials scientists at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have found a way to create and control tiny "flaws" inside ultra-thin materials. These internal features, known as extended defects, could give next-generation nanomaterials entirely new properties, opening the door to advances in nanotechnology. /news/2025-11-defects-properties-nanomaterials.html Nanomaterials Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:35:02 EST news681579301 New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our cells. Led by Monash University and the University of Melbourne, and published in Nature Communications, the study reveals how rabies virus manipulates so many cellular processes despite being armed with only a few proteins. /news/2025-11-rabies-viruses-proteins.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:17:04 EST news681578222 A team of researchers from the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin and DESY in Hamburg has demonstrated a plasma lens capable of focusing attosecond pulses. This breakthrough substantially increases the attosecond power available for experiments, opening up new opportunities for studying ultrafast electron dynamics. The results have now been published in Nature Photonics. /news/2025-11-plasma-lens-focus-attosecond-pulses.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:05:03 EST news681573901 In the summer of 2020, an international team led by a University of Arizona archaeologist reported the discovery of the largest monumental construction known today in the Maya area in the state of Tabasco, near Mexico's southeastern border. /news/2025-11-large-ritual-early-mesoamericans-universe.html Archaeology Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:00:03 EST news681557641 Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have stalled, largely due to the difficulty of delivering treatments at the cellular level. Now, a UC Berkeley-led team of researchers may have solved this delivery bottleneck, potentially opening the door to novel, lifesaving treatments. /news/2025-11-lipid-nanoparticles-mrna-heart-muscle.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:31:03 EST news681568261 One of the highest-risk components of nuclear waste is iodine-129 (I-129), which stays radioactive for millions of years and accumulates in human thyroids when ingested. In the U.S., nuclear waste containing I-129 is scheduled to be disposed of in deep underground repositories, which scientists say will sufficiently isolate it. /news/2025-11-countries-nuclear-strategies-focus-radionuclide.html Environment Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:28:04 EST news681568081