/ 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. Navigating the extreme cold of deep space or handling super-chilled liquid fuels here on Earth requires materials that won't break. Most metals become brittle and fracture at such low temperatures. However, new research is pioneering an approach to build metal structures atom by atom to create tough and durable alloys that can withstand such harsh environments. /news/2025-09-atomic-enables-alloys-wont-extreme.html Condensed Matter Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:27:56 EDT news676898854 Biologists have long known that amino acids can help stabilize proteins, for example as additives to pharmaceutical formulations. In trying to understand why this works, EPFL and MIT researchers have discovered a fundamental stabilizing effect of all small molecules, creating exciting possibilities for controlling particles in solution. /news/2025-09-amino-acids-anti-salt-insight.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:33:04 EDT news676891982 A new specimen holder gives scientists more control over ultra-cold temperatures, enabling the study of how materials acquire properties useful in quantum computers. /news/2025-09-microscopes-materials-quantum-liquid-helium.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:17:00 EDT news676887415 A new study addresses a foundational problem in the theory of driven quantum matter by extending the StÅ™eda formula to non-equilibrium regimes. It demonstrates that a superficially trivial "sum of zeros" encodes a universal, quantized magnetic response—one that is intrinsically topological and uniquely emergent under non-equilibrium driving conditions. /news/2025-09-mathematical-sum-zeros-exposes-topological.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:48:03 EDT news676824482 Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania, have developed new organic compounds that act as highly sensitive oxygen sensors. These sensors can accurately detect even the slightest amounts of oxygen in the environment—information that is crucial in situations where oxygen concentration can determine the success of a process or even a person's life. /news/2025-09-newly-compounds-highly-sensitive-oxygen.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:57:04 EDT news676821421 Traces of DNA in the environment can tell us how species' ranges are changing as a result of increasing sea temperatures. /news/2025-09-edna-tracking-marine-species-shifting.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:47:04 EDT news676820821 Seaweed growing along the world's coastlines could help to inspire new materials. Millions of years of evolution have shaped how seaweeds control light and color, which could offer new approaches for designers to explore. /news/2025-09-seaweed-cells-solar-panels-boost.html Evolution Biotechnology Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:26:04 EDT news676812361 In the Bronze Age, the so-called Nuraghe culture flourished in Sardinia. A culture that is known for tower-like stone constructions, nuraghers, and for the small bronze figures, bronzetti, which often depict warriors, gods and animals. These figures have fascinated scientists, but their exact metallic origins have been unknown. /news/2025-09-metals-reveal-bronze-age-previously.html Archaeology Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:20:01 EDT news676804638 In the universe, thermonuclear fusion is a common reaction: it is the source of energy for stars. On Earth, producing energy using this process is difficult due to problems with controlling the plasma emitting significant amounts of energy. Of critical importance here is the knowledge of the current state of the plasma and the power released in nuclear reactions. In the ITER reactor, this knowledge will be gathered by a sophisticated neutron flux diagnostic system. /news/2025-09-key-diagnostic-experimental-fusion-reactor.html Plasma ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:16:05 EDT news676804561 Vibrations are everywhere—from the hum of machinery to the rumble of transport systems. Usually, these random motions are wasted and dissipated without producing any usable work. /news/2025-09-noise-power-symmetric-ratchet-motor.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:35:11 EDT news676802108 Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered new materials and a new process that could advance the ever-escalating quest to make smaller, faster and affordable microchips used across modern electronics—in everything from cellphones to cars, appliances to airplanes. /news/2025-09-circuits-invisible-naked-eye-technique.html Nanomaterials Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:00:01 EDT news676783109 Taking medications on time, in the right dose and for the prescribed duration can be challenging for patients, and failure to do so comes with steep costs, causing 10% of hospitalizations and billions in avoidable spending in the United States alone, according to some estimates. A team of Rice University scientists has developed a new drug delivery platform that could make it easier to complete a therapeutic regimen and even boost drug efficacy. /news/2025-09-scientists-hydrogel-platform-precision-drug.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:04:05 EDT news676735441 Spintronics is an emerging field that leverages the spin, or the intrinsic angular momentum, of electrons. By harnessing this quantum-relativistic property, researchers aim to develop devices that store and transmit information faster, more efficiently, and at higher data densities, potentially making devices much smaller than what is possible today. These advances could drive next-generation memory, sensors, and even quantum technologies. /news/2025-09-advanced-ray-technique-enables-magnon.html Condensed Matter Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:39:06 EDT news676726742 For the first time in more than three centuries, Prussian Blue—long confined to its rigid cubic shape—has been transformed into an octahedral structure. A research team has successfully synthesized this new morphology by replacing water with a specialized solvent, glycerol, during the crystal growth process. /news/2025-09-prussian-blue-octahedral-years.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:39:03 EDT news676723141 In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the University of Michigan—with experiments at the U.K.'s Central Laser Facility—has mapped key aspects of electron pulses that can go on to generate laser-like X-ray pulses. /news/2025-09-electron-pulses-future-compact-ultra.html Optics & Photonics Plasma ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:30:05 EDT news676711802 During his Ph.D. at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and the movement of electrons in superconductors. Now a professor at Yale, the native of Mumbai, India, has pivoted toward biology to explain how bacteria breathe deep underground without the aid of oxygen. /news/2025-09-scientist-microbial-roots-potential-quantum.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:27:04 EDT news676654022 For citizens of the ancient Roman Empire, a trip to the amphitheater meant a thrilling day of entertainment. However, for many of the gladiators and animals involved, it was a fight for survival. A new study published in Antiquity provides the first direct evidence that brown bears were used in the gladiatorial arena, giving us a grim look at the brutal treatment they endured. /news/2025-09-fossil-skull-evidence-fought-roman.html Archaeology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:00:47 EDT news676645242 Researchers have discovered how "pirate phages" hijack other viruses to break into bacteria, sharing new genetic material for dangerous traits. /news/2025-09-microbial-piracy-uncovers-drug-resistant.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:02:04 EDT news676641721 The iridescent blue of butterfly wings has inspired researchers to find a solution to a challenge previously considered insurmountable—dynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths. /news/2025-09-butterfly-wings-solution-impossible-optics.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:19:06 EDT news676628341 2H-NbO₂—a novel van der Waals oxide synthesized by researchers from Japan—exhibits strongly correlated electronic properties with two-dimensional flexibility. By chemically extracting lithium ions from the layered sheets of LiNbOâ‚‚, the researchers transformed a three-dimensional oxide into a two-dimensional material—unlocking unique properties like Mott insulating states and superconductivity. Bridging transition metal oxides and 2D materials, the discovery paves the way for realizing advanced quantum materials in next-generation electronic devices. /news/2025-09-layered-transition-metal-oxide-2d.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 08 Sep 2025 14:30:28 EDT news676560621 In a breakthrough for next-generation technologies, scientists have learned how to precisely control the behavior of tiny waves of light and electrons, paving the way for faster communications and quantum devices. /news/2025-09-terahertz-faster-electronics.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:20:04 EDT news676555462 Using ESA's INTEGRAL spacecraft, astronomers have detected exceptionally bright X-ray flares from the Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary system. This is the first time that such strong flaring activity has been observed in this system although it has been monitored for decades. The new findings were detailed in a paper published August 28 on the pre-print server arXiv. /news/2025-09-exceptionally-bright-ray-flares-cygnus.html Astronomy Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:20:01 EDT news676544959 The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice. /news/2025-09-room-carbon-dioxide-driver-climate.html Environment Sat, 06 Sep 2025 12:30:03 EDT news676121163 Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C, outperforming all other materials used for extreme-temperature applications. This breakthrough could be used for heat shields on hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft during re-entry into the atmosphere and in other high-temperature environments. /news/2025-09-breakthrough-carbon-nanotube-material-thermal.html Nanomaterials Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:30:01 EDT news676297062 The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren't directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially among single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea. A team led by researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have now estimated that an average cell line acquires and retains roughly 13% of its genes every million years via this process of lateral gene transfer. That equates to about 250 genes swapped per liter of seawater every day. /news/2025-09-quantify-essential-evolutionary-ocean.html Evolution Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:20:01 EDT news676358182 Deep in Earth's past, an icy landscape became a seascape as the ice melted and the oceans rose off what is now the northeastern United States. Nearly 50 years ago, a U.S. government ship searching for minerals and hydrocarbons in the area drilled into the seafloor to see what it could find. /news/2025-09-scientists-secret-fresh-ocean-thirsty.html Environment Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:42:50 EDT news676305754 Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as they address two of the world's biggest challenges: plastic pollution and the climate crisis. /news/2025-09-scientists-plastic-efficient-capture-materials.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:06 EDT news676202581 Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team's advancement is a new example of a "time crystal." That's the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion. /news/2025-09-physicists-kind-crystal-humans.html Condensed Matter Soft Matter Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:30:05 EDT news676297428 In the battle against climate change, researchers are looking for ways to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful products. They're studying nano-sized materials called catalysts that can accelerate the conversion process or make it more efficient. Nanomaterials are magnitudes smaller than the width of a human hair. /news/2025-09-effective-catalyst-abundant-metals-emissions.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:06:04 EDT news676296362 The existing bottleneck in efficiently miniaturizing components for quantum computers could be eased with the help of 3D printing. /news/2025-09-3d-micro-ion-quantum-tech.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:47:38 EDT news676280851