/ 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. 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 糖心视频ics Quantum 糖心视频ics 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 St艡eda formula to non-equilibrium regimes. It demonstrates that a superficially trivial "sum of zeros" encodes a universal, quantized magnetic response鈥攐ne that is intrinsically topological and uniquely emergent under non-equilibrium driving conditions. /news/2025-09-mathematical-sum-zeros-exposes-topological.html Condensed Matter Quantum 糖心视频ics 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鈥攊nformation 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 When plastic waste enters waterways, it can endanger aquatic animals, damage habitats, and splinter into tiny pieces that may affect ecosystems for centuries to come. /news/2025-09-north-carolina-trash-policy.html Environment Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:14:03 EDT news676815241 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 If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. /news/2025-09-massive-eruption-years-affected-planet.html Earth Sciences Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:14:05 EDT news676811641 Science advances through data that don't fit our current understanding. At least that was Thomas Kuhn's theory in his famous On the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. So scientists should welcome new data that challenges their understanding of how the universe works. /news/2025-09-jwst-exoplanet-pulsar-atmosphere-carbon.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:42:04 EDT news676806122 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 糖心视频ics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:16:05 EDT news676804561 Vibrations are everywhere鈥攆rom 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 糖心视频ics 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鈥攊n 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 Durham University scientists have completed one of the largest quality verification programs ever carried out on superconducting materials, helping to ensure the success of the world's biggest fusion energy experiment ITER. /news/2025-09-superconducting-materials-world-largest-fusion.html Superconductivity Plasma 糖心视频ics Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:02 EDT news676742341 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鈥攍ong confined to its rigid cubic shape鈥攈as 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 A thin, glass-like layer could be the key to longer-lasting, cost-effective solid-state batteries. /news/2025-09-solid-state-batteries-boost-coating.html Materials Science Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:20:07 EDT news676716693 Scientists at the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku, Finland, looked at the insect biodiversity of Kibale National Park in Uganda. The study, published in the journal Insect Conservation and Diversity, is based on long-term collecting and gives new information that is useful for conserving dark biodiversity, showing how the diversity is distributed in different habitats. /news/2025-09-dark-biodiversity-rainforests.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:57:42 EDT news676717058 In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the University of Michigan鈥攚ith experiments at the U.K.'s Central Laser Facility鈥攈as 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 糖心视频ics Wed, 10 Sep 2025 08:30:05 EDT news676711802 A dozen sleek grey Yangtze finless porpoises glide inside a vast pool at the Institute of Hydrobiology in Wuhan as scientists find ways to protect and breed the rare mammals in China's longest river. /news/2025-09-photos-scientists-rare-endangered-animals.html Ecology Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:10:39 EDT news676699831 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 糖心视频ics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:27:04 EDT news676654022 Extremophiles are a favorite tool of astrobiologists. But not only are they good for understanding the kind of extreme environments that life can survive in, sometimes they are useful as actual tools, creating materials necessary for other life, like oxygen, in those extreme environments. A recent paper from Daniella Billi of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, published in pre-print form in Acta Astronautica, reviews how one particular extremophile fills the role of both useful test subject and useful tool all at once. /news/2025-09-extremophile-martian-dirt-survives-space.html Space Exploration Astrobiology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:03:03 EDT news676648981 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 eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system. /news/2025-09-comet-alien-spaceship-astrophysicist-interstellar.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:50:03 EDT news676640115 This idea of a carbon footprint comes up a lot in news coverage about personal climate impact. /news/2025-09-climate-tracking-apps-carbon-footprint.html Environment Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:40:04 EDT news676634178 On a blast furnace of an August day in Georgia's southernmost county, Joe Hopkins gripped the steering wheel to steady his truck on the sandy road. /news/2025-09-okefenokee-swamp-safe-hasnt.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:00:11 EDT news676632761 The iridescent blue of butterfly wings has inspired researchers to find a solution to a challenge previously considered insurmountable鈥攄ynamically tuning advanced optical processes at visible wavelengths. /news/2025-09-butterfly-wings-solution-impossible-optics.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 糖心视频ics Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:19:06 EDT news676628341