/ 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. Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in Mercury's exosphere for the first time. /news/2025-07-scientists-lithium-mercury-exosphere-magnetic.html Planetary Sciences Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:18:30 EDT news672056303 By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, EPFL scientists have engineered an optical metasurface that controls light to yield a simple and versatile technique for secure encryption, sensing, and computing. /news/2025-07-chiral-metasurfaces-encode-images-visible.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:50:10 EDT news671877679 You may not have realized it yet, but the United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. /news/2025-07-year-journey-quantum-science-technology.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:30:06 EDT news671800512 Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the early years of the new millennium. After he came to the University of California, Irvine in 2006, the concept evolved into an invention that would revolutionize research by enabling scientists to study the fundamental characteristics of matter at nanoscale resolution. /news/2025-07-revolutionizing-photo-microscopy-globe-celebrated.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:10:01 EDT news671703676 As Great Salt Lake's levels continue to sag, yet another strange phenomenon has surfaced, offering Utah scientists more opportunities to plumb the vast saline lake's secrets. /news/2025-07-mysterious-reed-mounds-reveal-vast.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:11:09 EDT news671433061 In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force. Meanwhile, Einstein's general relativity describes gravity and the fabric of spacetime. /news/2025-07-large-hadron-collider-snap-theory.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:25:28 EDT news671426717 Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and nearly eight times wider than the James Webb Space Telescope. Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space. This might sound like science fiction, but it's the cutting-edge concept behind the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE), a joint NASA-Technion project that could revolutionize how we explore the universe. /news/2025-07-giant-liquid-mirrors-revolutionize-habitable.html Astronomy Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:40:03 EDT news671365288 With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports. /news/2025-07-room-temperature-maser-technology.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:10:04 EDT news671288763 Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether in a physics class, in the lab, or in popular science writing, is left thinking something like, "Now, that is really weird." For some, this translates to weird and wonderful. For others it is more like weird and disturbing. /news/2025-07-electron-magnetic-moment-state-values.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:20:39 EDT news671271633 Radar systems used by civilian airports and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilizations, new research shows. /news/2025-07-airports-heathrow-gatwick-aliens-earth.html Astronomy Astrobiology Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:04 EDT news671188131 While radiation treatments designed to kill cancer cells have come a long way, scientists and doctors are always exploring new ways to zap tumors more effectively. Recent tests at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory show that a small array of magnets designed as an offshoot of the Lab's nuclear physics research could quite literally provide a path for such future cancer treatments. /news/2025-07-chain-magnets-proton-range-energies.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 08 Jul 2025 09:30:03 EDT news671185524 Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging between 0.1 and 10 THz, could be leveraged to develop various new technologies, including imaging and communication systems. So far, however, a lack of fast and sensitive detectors that can detect radiation across a wide range of frequencies has limited the development of these THz-sensing technologies. /news/2025-07-tairte-photodetectors-highly-sensitive-room.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:50:07 EDT news670648980 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on the menu of the next few days. /news/2025-07-collisions-oxygen-large-hadron-collider.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:43:04 EDT news670596180 A unique new material that shrinks when it is heated and expands when it is cooled could help enable the ultra-stable space telescopes that future NASA missions require to search for habitable worlds. /news/2025-07-alloy-enabling-ultra-stable-exoplanet.html Space Exploration Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:59:06 EDT news670589942 Devices taking advantage of the collective quantum behavior of spin excitations in magnetic materials—known as magnons—have the potential to improve quantum computing devices. However, using magnons in quantum devices requires an in-depth understanding of their nature and limitations. A new experimental technique uses superconducting qubits to sensitively characterize magnon behavior in previously unexplored regimes. /news/2025-06-quantum-exploring-magnons-superconducting-qubits.html Superconductivity Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:12:04 EDT news670500721 New research published in ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection experiments could function as highly precise gravitational wave detectors, thereby establishing an entirely new frequency band for observing these cosmic ripples. /news/2025-06-powerful-magnets-high-frequency-gravitational.html Astronomy Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:30:01 EDT news670238008 In a new study, researchers demonstrate long-term, non-invasive monitoring of blood sodium levels using a system that combines optoacoustic detection with terahertz spectroscopy. The paper is published in the journal Optica. /news/2025-06-terahertz-blood-sodium-needles.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:05 EDT news670137645 Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, published in close collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, could revolutionize our ability to control light-matter interactions. /news/2025-06-scientists-technique-capturing-ultra-intense.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:00:02 EDT news670068479 Quantum computers can solve extraordinarily complex problems, unlocking new possibilities in fields such as drug development, encryption, AI, and logistics. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a highly efficient amplifier that activates only when reading information from qubits. The study was published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. /news/2025-06-smart-amplifier-power-consumption-paving.html Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:03 EDT news670071601 Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, the collapsed cores of massive stars. Some pulsars are breaking the rules of physics as we understand them, and the answer might lie in something as simple as tiny mountains on their surfaces. /news/2025-06-pulsars-tiny-mountains.html Astronomy Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:22:04 EDT news670004522 A new study is shedding light on why solar radiation is more effective than other forms of energy at causing water to evaporate. The key factor turns out to be the oscillating electric field inherent to sunlight itself. /news/2025-06-oscillating-electric-field-sun-good.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:41:03 EDT news669987662 Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), which utilize ferroelectric ceramics, are widely used as electronic components in various devices such as smartphones, personal computers, televisions, and automotive systems. /news/2025-06-reveals-nanoscale-ferroelectric-interfaces.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:12:03 EDT news669982322 While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails to explain dark matter, dark energy and the apparent asymmetry between matter and antimatter in the universe. Over the past decades, physicists have thus introduced various frameworks and methods to study physics beyond the SM, one of which is known as the King plot. /news/2025-06-tightens-king-plot-based-constraints.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Mon, 23 Jun 2025 10:40:35 EDT news669894028 A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared sensing. /news/2025-06-rewriting-century-physics-law-thermal.html General ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Optics & Photonics Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:03:04 EDT news669636181 A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. /news/2025-06-electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:19:04 EDT news669485941 I became acquainted with sharks at a very early age. /news/2025-06-fascination-decoding-depths-distances-world.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:05:05 EDT news669463502 Vacuum is often thought of as empty, but in fact it is teeming with fleeting energy fluctuations—virtual photons popping in and out of existence that can interact with matter, giving rise to new, potentially useful properties. /news/2025-06-scientists-harness-vacuum-fluctuations-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵics Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:58:05 EDT news669459482 An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. The discovery joins many pieces of a puzzle that may reveal which kinds of planets form—rocky Earth-types, gas giants like Jupiter, or balls of ice in the Neptune mold—as star systems mature. /news/2025-06-gases-young-stars-astronomers-major.html Astronomy Planetary Sciences Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:49:17 EDT news669293350 Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their fascinating underlying physics and their possible cosmological outcomes. Most previous studies aimed at simulating and better understanding these events relied on computational methods designed to solve Einstein's equations of general relativity under extreme conditions, such as those that would be present during neutron star mergers. /news/2025-06-simulation-reveals-emergence-jet-binary.html Astronomy Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:15:19 EDT news669287714 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