/ en-us Â鶹ŇůÔş internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ŇůÔşics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in collaboration with the Dexeus University Hospital have captured unparalleled images of a human embryo implanting. This is the first time that the process has been recorded in real time and in 3D. /news/2025-08-human-embryo-implantation-real.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:00:06 EDT news674380725 Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a supramolecular co-assembly platform that produces chiral soft materials with strong and stable full-color circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) across the visible spectrum, including in red, which has historically been a difficult target. /news/2025-08-strategy-robust-circularly-polarized-luminescence.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:38:59 EDT news674480331 A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the lightning in the cloud—a finding that sheds light on how the power in lightning radiates. This, in turn, gives insight into lightning initiation in a particularly powerful type of in-cloud lightning. /news/2025-08-sensor-powerful-lightning-clouds.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:35:01 EDT news674469298 Researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge have demonstrated a new way to control radiation in the terahertz range—an often-overlooked part of the electromagnetic spectrum—with unprecedented dynamic range and speed. The findings could open the door to advanced technologies in communications, imaging, and sensing and mark major progress in the development of practical devices that operate in the terahertz range. /news/2025-08-graphene-capacitors-rapid-high-depth.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 15 Aug 2025 03:00:01 EDT news674445047 Cornell chemists have developed a way to use electrochemistry, a sustainable technique, to make chiral molecules, which occur in mirrored pairs, like human hands. Common in pharmaceuticals, chiral molecules are important to get right to be effective and safe. /news/2025-08-safe-medicinal-molecules-sustainable-electrochemistry.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:38:04 EDT news674401081 Since the mid-1990s, the Greenland ice sheet has been losing mass, leaving only three floating tongues remaining. One of these, Nioghalvfjerdsbræ or the 79°N Glacier, is already showing the first signs of instability. /news/2025-08-meltwater-lake-79n-glacier-triggers.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:01:04 EDT news674391662 An international team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a new type of ultracompact laser that is more energy efficient and consumes less power. /news/2025-08-energy-efficient-ultracompact-laser-loss.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:34:04 EDT news674390042 Scrolling through social media, you may have dallied on reels of Leonardo DiCaprio dancing or Tom Cruise crooning, only to realize they're spoofs created with artificial intelligence. Hyper-realistic videos and images like these—also called deepfakes—are notorious for celebrity pranking. But the technology has serious scientific applications, too. In the field of ecology, for example, AI doppelgängers of rare species could improve efforts to understand, monitor and protect them. /news/2025-08-deepfake-whales-key-tool.html Ecology Biotechnology Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:49:49 EDT news674318977 How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from Inria Saclay and Anna-Laura Sattelberger from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, recently published in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. /news/2025-08-universe-revealed-algebraic-geometry.html Mathematics Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:06:04 EDT news674312762 On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. /news/2025-08-sediment-surge-years-earthquake-rivers.html Earth Sciences Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:00:12 EDT news674292241 Researchers with the schools of science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are exploring new ways to manipulate matter with light to unlock a new generation of computer chips, photovoltaic cells and other advanced materials. /news/2025-08-material-properties-reveals-atomic-nanocrystals.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:19:04 EDT news674230741 A research team from the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) has published a study in Communications Biology showing how ocean acidification and warming—two of the main consequences of global climate change—can simultaneously affect the structure, mineral composition, and microbiome of bryozoans, colonial invertebrates crucial for forming marine habitats. The findings point to potentially serious ecological consequences under a scenario of accelerated climate change. /news/2025-08-ocean-architects-combined-impact-acidification.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:51:04 EDT news674221861 In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they identified 300 objects that were brighter than they should be. /news/2025-08-early-galaxies-webb-uncovers-unusually.html Astronomy Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:24:03 EDT news674220241 Medical imaging methods such as ultrasound and MRI are often affected by background noise, which can introduce blurring and obscure fine anatomical details in the images. For clinicians who depend on medical images, background noise is a fundamental problem in making accurate diagnoses. /news/2025-08-pixel-particle-analogy-quantum-math.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ŇůÔşics Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:00:02 EDT news674132702 Advances in artificial intelligence for porous materials design could impact a wide variety of fields, from orthopedic implants to next-generation batteries. /news/2025-08-pressure-ai-porous-materials.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:42:20 EDT news674214133 A detailed picture of what happens when DNA transcription is paused early in the process has been obtained by structural biologists at RIKEN. This could inform the development of new therapies. /news/2025-08-dna-transcription-imaging-technique-reveals.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:32:03 EDT news674213521 Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Optical Systems Division at Broadcom Inc., report a broadband, polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates in the visible spectrum, capable of high-efficiency image transmission in one direction while effectively suppressing image formation in the reverse direction. /news/2025-08-wafer-scale-nano-fabrication-multi.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:27:02 EDT news674148421 A group of UBC Okanagan students has helped create technology that could improve how doctors and scientists detect everything from tumors to wildfires. /news/2025-08-students-image-tool-sharper-earlier.html Mathematics Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:04:15 EDT news674139847 Researchers from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and the U.S. have reconstructed the composition of phytoplankton communities around Antarctica over nearly three decades, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. /news/2025-08-shifting-foundations-antarctic-food-web.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:23:07 EDT news674126581 In the wake of a wildfire, there's often an assumption that burned landscapes will be more susceptible to landslides. But new research from the University of Oregon suggests it's not always that simple. /news/2025-08-landslide-doesnt-wildfire-columbia-river.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:00:01 EDT news673778281 Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a novel organic molecule that simultaneously exhibits two highly sought-after properties: efficient light emission suitable for advanced displays and strong light absorption for deep-tissue bioimaging. This breakthrough addresses a long-standing challenge in molecular design, paving the way for next-generation multifunctional materials. /news/2025-08-molecule-strong-emission-absorption-displays.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:08:04 EDT news673873681 A team of researchers from the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems of the National Research Council of Italy (ISASI-CNR) and the Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) has developed a method to observe lysosomes in live suspended cells—quantitatively, in 3D, and without the use of chemical labels. /news/2025-08-3d-holographic-imaging-tracks-lysosomal.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:30:02 EDT news673870541 A new breakthrough in the field of physics led by doctoral student Yueming Yan could allow for the creation of small, thin, low-power optical devices to be used in both medical imaging and environmental sensing. /news/2025-08-ultrathin-metal-semiconductor-emit-multicolor.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:14:03 EDT news673863241 Researchers at UBC Okanagan have made two major discoveries that are set to revolutionize how scientists observe and measure molecular forces within living cells. /news/2025-08-molecular-imaging-tech-cells-nanometer.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:46:04 EDT news673785961 When I tell people I study parasites that live inside ticks, I usually get one of two reactions: a shudder of disgust or a puzzled look that says, "Don't ticks already carry enough diseases?" /news/2025-08-uncovering-hidden-world-parasites.html Ecology Veterinary medicine Thu, 07 Aug 2025 09:00:02 EDT news673775649 Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered that the size of catalytic nanoparticles determines how their shape and structure transform during chemical reactions. With insights into the nanoparticles' atomic-scale behavior as they convert carbon dioxide into useful fuel—and a better understanding of how structural changes impact catalytic performance—researchers are newly positioned to design more effective catalysts for industrial applications. /news/2025-08-tiny-catalytic-particles-carbon-dioxide.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:46:06 EDT news673771558 EPFL researchers have developed a new imaging method using a single-photon camera that can characterize thousands of molecules quickly and simultaneously. The research is published in the journal Light: Science & Applications. /news/2025-08-ultrafast-imaging-method-characterizes-thousands.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:24:00 EDT news673611836 In nature, the concept of chirality or "handedness" is fundamental to life itself, just as our left and right hands are mirror images that cannot be overlapped perfectly. Molecular handedness is crucial in biological systems—the same molecule with different chirality acts as a healthful or toxic compound. Living organisms excel at creating chiral cavities through molecular self-assembly, allowing proteins to bind and transform substrates with high selectivity. /news/2025-08-molecular-capsules-impart-chirality-large.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:10:01 EDT news673605297 A research team led by Professor Takuya Yamamoto and Assistant Professor Ryusaku Matsumoto (Department of Life Science Frontiers) has developed a machine learning model that enables early prediction of hypothalamus–pituitary organoid formation from human iPS cells to aid in organoid research and regenerative medicine. /news/2025-08-stem-cell-derived-organoid-quality.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 05 Aug 2025 10:01:03 EDT news673606861 Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a distant faint galaxy designated JADES-GS-z14-1. Results of the observational campaign, published July 30 on the arXiv preprint server, provide more insights into the nature and properties of this galaxy. /news/2025-08-jwst-nature-distant-galaxy.html Astronomy Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:00:02 EDT news673542692