/ 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. Heat waves are becoming more frequent around the world. And while rising temperatures caused by greenhouse gas emissions are part of the problem, the declining levels of aerosols—the small particles that make up smog and air pollution—may be driving the rise even more, particularly in populated areas. /news/2025-07-decline-aerosols-populated-areas.html Environment Wed, 16 Jul 2025 15:27:33 EDT news671898447 Glaciers hold layers of history preserved in ice, offering unique insights into Earth's past that can also help us interpret the future. Trapped amidst the frozen water are microscopic deposits of dust, pollen, and even pollutants that scientists can use to examine environmental changes through time. /news/2025-07-scientists-ice-core-european-alps.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:30:02 EDT news671868207 Current climate models have so far been unable to adequately reproduce the clouds over the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. An international team has now taken an important step toward filling this gap. The researchers were able to prove that the majority of ice nuclei in the atmosphere there are due to sugar compounds from marine microorganisms in the seawater. /news/2025-07-sugars-salty-ocean-responsible-large.html Environment Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:50:08 EDT news671793102 Bubbles burst when their caps rupture. Children discover this phenomenon every summer day, but it also underpins key mechanisms for the spread of pollutants, contaminants, and even infectious disease through the generation of aerosol droplets. While bubble bursting has been extensively studied in pure substances, the impact of contaminants on bursting dynamics has not received widespread attention. /news/2025-07-theory-aerosol-droplets-contaminated-pollution.html Soft Matter Tue, 15 Jul 2025 03:32:04 EDT news671769119 The cleanup of air pollution in East Asia has accelerated global warming, a new study published today (Monday, 14 July) in the journal Communications Earth and Environment has found. /news/2025-07-air-pollution-east-asia-global.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 14 Jul 2025 05:00:02 EDT news671448431 A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, uneven fluid flows of fluctuating velocity and pressure. Though ubiquitous in nature, these flows remain somewhat of a mystery, theoretically and computationally. /news/2025-07-mathematical-scaling-regimes-lagrangian-turbulence.html Mathematics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:49:52 EDT news671341786 In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, water managers often asked him about the drought in the Southwest. Was the low precipitation simply an unlucky draw in the cycle of long-term weather variations? What role did climate change play? Most importantly, was the drought there to stay? /news/2025-07-climate-aerosols-persistent-drought-rainfall.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:28:04 EDT news671282881 A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the world's coastal towns and cities, a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests. /news/2025-07-sewage-coastal-airborne-microplastics-cities.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:51:04 EDT news671262661 Melting glaciers may be silently setting the stage for more explosive and frequent volcanic eruptions in the future, according to research on six volcanoes in the Chilean Andes. /news/2025-07-glaciers-trigger-explosive-eruptions-globally.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:00:03 EDT news670759292 Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago (formerly known as the K-T extinction) despite having small broods and occupying limited ranges, a departure from the theory of how other species are thought to have persisted in the aftermath of the event. /news/2025-06-night-lizards-survived-asteroid-dinosaurs.html Evolution Paleontology & Fossils Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:40:01 EDT news670239608 Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in which this building block can form spontaneously on aqueous surfaces without the need for any additional energy. /news/2025-06-mist-sea-spray-unique-conditions.html Materials Science Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:52:20 EDT news670171933 For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean's overall warming, fueling debate among scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-term weakening of a major ocean circulation system. /news/2025-06-strange-atlantic-cold-ocean-slowdown.html Earth Sciences Environment Sat, 21 Jun 2025 06:30:02 EDT news669705863 As Earth's largest carbon reservoir, the ocean locks carbon away from the atmosphere. However, scientists still struggle to measure and monitor exactly how much carbon is stored in the ocean, hindering efforts to model and respond to our changing climate. /news/2025-06-marine-clues-export-carbon-deep.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:23:04 EDT news669561781 The central estimate of the remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is 130 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) (from the beginning of 2025). This would be exhausted in a little more than three years at current levels of CO2 emissions, according to the latest Indicators of Global Climate Change study published in the journal Earth System Science Data, and the budget for 1.6°C or 1.7°C could be exceeded within nine years. /news/2025-06-global-carbon-emissions-track-exhaust.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:00:01 EDT news669460501 Researchers at Boise State University have developed a stable, high-performance Ti3C2Tx MXene ink formulation optimized for aerosol jet printing—paving the way for scalable manufacturing of micro-supercapacitors, sensors, and other energy storage and harvesting devices. /news/2025-06-energy-storage-future-mxene-inks.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:51:00 EDT news669307850 Air pollution causes health problems and is attributable to some 50,000 annual deaths in the United States, but not all air pollutants pack the same punch. /news/2025-06-tiny-toxic-track-smaller-air.html Environment Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:03:41 EDT news669092609 A natural alternative to pesticides may be hiding in a misunderstood plant compound—but it could come at an environmental cost. /news/2025-06-pesticide-atmosphere.html Environment Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:55:05 EDT news669027302 Aerosols could hold the key to stopping potentially destructive cyclones in their tracks, according to a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University (ANU). /news/2025-06-dangerous-cyclones.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:21:04 EDT news669014462 Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a new study has found. /news/2025-06-aged-particles-chemical-reactors-sky.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:54:04 EDT news668429641 Once in a while, scientific research resembles detective work. Researchers head into the field with a hypothesis and high hopes of finding specific results, but sometimes, there's a twist in the story that requires a deeper dive into the data. /news/2025-06-airborne-toxin-western-hemisphere.html Environment Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:18:04 EDT news668427482 Nitrates in the atmosphere reduce air quality and play an important role in climate change. An international team led by Hokkaido University researchers has revealed how chemical processes in the atmosphere have led to persistently high nitrate levels despite a reduction in emissions over the past few decades. /news/2025-06-pollutants-aloft-emissions.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:19:03 EDT news668254741 In a UNSW-led Nature study, researchers say that an off-the-scale marine heat wave in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2023 was caused by record-breaking weak winds combined with increased solar radiation—all on the back of ongoing climate change. /news/2025-06-scientists-reveal-drove-north-atlantic.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:08 EDT news668245141 Even if you live far from the boreal forests in Canada and Siberia, you've likely noticed an increase in smoke from their forest fires. During major blazes in 2023, the smoke tinted the New York sky orange and drifted as far south as New Orleans. These blazes have surged in the last decade due to the effects of climate change—warmer summers, less snow cover in the spring, and the loss of sea ice. Experts expect that trend to continue. /news/2025-06-wildfires-canada-siberia-global.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:59:04 EDT news668249941 A new study published in Nature Microbiology has uncovered significant genetic and antigenic diversity among H9N2 avian influenza viruses (AIVs) circulating in poultry across China, highlighting the growing public health risk posed by H9N2 AIVs. /news/2025-06-genetic-diversity-highlights-threat-h9n2.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:30:03 EDT news668176201 Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won't cancel out human-generated warming. Cutting emissions remains essential. /news/2025-05-trees-cool-planet.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 29 May 2025 10:23:33 EDT news667733008 A new international study led by Helmholtz Munich and the University of Rostock reveals that emissions from modern gasoline cars—despite meeting the currently strictest European emission standards EURO 6d—can become significantly more harmful after being released into the atmosphere. The findings, published in Science Advances, challenge the assumption that filtered exhaust from EURO 6d-compliant vehicles is inherently safe. /news/2025-05-filtered-car-emissions-toxic-sunlight.html Environment Wed, 28 May 2025 17:30:04 EDT news667672202 The 120-mile Tijuana River flows from Baja California into the United States and discharges millions of gallons of wastewater—including sewage, industrial waste and runoff—into the Pacific Ocean every day, making it the dominant source of coastal pollution in the region. /news/2025-05-pollution-tijuana-river-affects-air.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 28 May 2025 14:00:05 EDT news667641962 With wildfires increasing in frequency, severity, and size in the Western U.S., researchers are determined to better understand how smoke impacts air quality, public health, and even the weather. /news/2025-05-reno-air-quality-illuminates-wider.html Environment Tue, 27 May 2025 15:57:44 EDT news667580261 Coral reefs form a vital part of the marine ecosystem, playing host to diverse species and supporting multiple industries, including fisheries, tourism, and recreation. However, these fragile ecosystems are under increasing threat from climate change, with warming oceans increasing stress on the coral animals and their symbiotic algal partners. /news/2025-05-cues-coral-health-red-sea.html Ecology Biotechnology Tue, 27 May 2025 14:49:04 EDT news667576141 Highly sensitive detection methods allow ever deeper insights into complex chemical processes in the atmosphere: Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) in Leipzig found a series of new product channels in a detailed product study on the oxidative degradation of isoprene in the gas phase, which allows a better mechanistic understanding of this important process for atmospheric chemistry. The results were published in the journal Nature Communications. /news/2025-05-highly-oxidized-products-isoprene-atmospheric.html Environment Mon, 26 May 2025 11:42:04 EDT news667478522