/ en-us Â鶹ÒùÔº internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Â鶹ÒùÔºics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. When animals move together in flocks, herds, or schools, neural dynamics in their brain become synchronized through shared ways of representing space, a new study by researchers from the University of Konstanz (Germany) suggests. The findings challenge the conventional view of how collective motion arises in nature. /news/2025-10-minds-align-neural-basis-flocking.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:30:02 EDT news679566598 Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research into the impact of innovation on economic growth and how new technologies replace older ones, a key economic concept known as "creative destruction." /news/2025-10-nobel-economics-prize-driven-economic.html Economics & Business Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:11:26 EDT news679554674 One of the key steps in developing new materials is property identification, which has long relied on massive amounts of experimental data and expensive equipment, limiting research efficiency. A KAIST research team has introduced a new technique that combines physical laws, which govern deformation and interaction of materials and energy, with artificial intelligence. This approach allows for rapid exploration of new materials even under data-scarce conditions and provides a foundation for accelerating design and verification across multiple engineering fields, including materials, mechanics, energy, and electronics. /news/2025-10-physics-ai-excels-large-scale.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Condensed Matter Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:04:03 EDT news679313041 Most Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) forest carbon offset projects significantly overstate their climate benefits, according to a new study published in Science. /news/2025-10-analysis-gaps-forest-carbon-offset.html Environment Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:00:15 EDT news679156261 Total solar eclipses only happen in the same spot once every 300 or 400 years, so it's no surprise that a team of researchers at Indiana University recently jumped on the opportunity to use this natural experiment to better understand how light affects wild birds. /news/2025-10-citizen-scientists-reveal-importance-bird.html Plants & Animals Ecology Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:00:05 EDT news679156382 Plant functional diversity is highly dynamic over time and fluctuates considerably. It is influenced by seasonal cycles and wet-dry periods, and varies depending on the region. These are the findings of researchers from Leipzig University, the University of Freiburg, and Aarhus University in Denmark. /news/2025-10-functional-diversity-varies-greatly-seasonal.html Environment Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:10:06 EDT news679230601 A new artificial intelligence-powered tool can help researchers determine how well an enzyme fits with a desired target, helping them find the best enzyme and substrate combination for applications from catalysis to medicine to manufacturing. /news/2025-10-ai-tool-enzymes-substrates.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:39:04 EDT news679156741 Last year, we celebrated 50 years since the first papers on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) were published. It wasn't a wild celebration with masses on the streets, nor was it widely celebrated in universities, but rather a quiet admiration by people in the field for one of the cornerstone methods that has advanced our understanding of many processes at the molecular scale. /news/2025-10-analysis-year-problem-molecular-fluorescence.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:29:13 EDT news679145341 Imagine zooming into matter at the quantum scale, where tiny particles can interact in more than a trillion configurations at once. /news/2025-10-quantum-dynamics-laptop-technique-closer.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:09:04 EDT news679144142 Engineered polymers hold promise for use in next generation technologies such as light-harvesting devices and implantable electronics that interact with the nervous system—but creating polymers with the right combination of chemical, physical and electronic properties poses a significant challenge. New research offers insights into how polymers can be engineered to fine-tune their electronic properties in order to meet the demands of such specific applications. /news/2025-10-ai-based-insights-polymers-generation.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:00:09 EDT news678987001 Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments. /news/2025-10-scientists-nobel-prize-chemistry-metal.html Materials Science Other Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:55:01 EDT news679121691 A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson's lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve LiDAR, a technology that uses lightwaves to measure distance. The lab was designing high-power chips that could produce brighter beams of light. /news/2025-10-powerful-precise-multi-lasers-chip.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:22:04 EDT news679047721 Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers. /news/2025-10-nobel-prize-physics-scientists-discoveries.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:01:36 EDT news679035669 To increase energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of hydrogen fuel production, Fanglin Che, associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is leveraging the power and potential of machine learning and computational modeling. The multi-university team she leads has completed a study that was just published in Nature Chemical Engineering. The study utilized artificial intelligence to identify catalysts with the potential to facilitate cleaner and more efficient hydrogen production. /news/2025-10-ai-catalysts-hydrogen-production-hurdles.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:34:04 EDT news678983642 Despite rapid advances in reading the genetic code of living organisms, scientists still face a major challenge today—knowing a gene's sequence does not automatically reveal what it does. Even in simple, well-studied bacteria like Escherichia coli (better known as E. coli), about one-quarter of the genes have no known function. Traditional approaches—turning off one gene at a time and studying the effects—are slow, laborious, and sometimes inconclusive due to gene redundancy. /news/2025-10-bacterial-gene-interactions-uncovers-future.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:23:04 EDT news678979381 An international team of researchers from Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany), Tohoku University (Japan), and École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) has made a significant discovery in semiconductor science by revealing the remarkable spin-related material properties of Germanium-Tin (GeSn) semiconductors. /news/2025-10-harnessing-gesn-semiconductors-tomorrow-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:07:04 EDT news678971222 In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins with specific functions, from antibodies to blood clotting agents, by using computers to accurately predict the 3D structure of any given amino acid sequence. /news/2025-10-disordered-proteins-physics-based-algorithm.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:00:01 EDT news678704281 This week, researchers reported that mild dietary stress supports healthy aging. Engineers created artificial neurons that can communicate directly with living cells. And dark energy observations suggest that the universe could end in a "big crunch" at 33 billion years old. /news/2025-10-saturday-citations-bird-news-vultures.html Other Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:30:01 EDT news678707485 Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve very different scales or highly sensitive parameters), they become extremely difficult to solve. This is especially relevant in inverse problems, where scientists try to deduce unknown physical laws from observed data. /news/2025-10-ai-techniques-excel-complex-equations.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:20:01 EDT news678629719 University of Michigan researchers have developed a tool powered by artificial intelligence that can help them examine the behavior of a single molecule out of a sea of information in the blink of an eye—or at least overnight. /news/2025-10-scalable-ai-tracks-motion-molecules.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:07:10 EDT news678629225 Since 2022, American companies, consumers, and even the United Nations have used large language models—artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT that are trained to create text that reads like human-generated writing. In a study published in the journal Patterns, researchers reveal that AI is used in an average of 17% of analyzed corporate and governmental written content, from job posts to press releases, and this rate will likely continue to increase. /news/2025-09-job-ads-ai-written-content.html Economics & Business Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:00:08 EDT news678470462 Researchers at Integra Therapeutics, in collaboration with the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have designed and experimentally validated new synthetic proteins that can edit the human genome more efficiently than proteins provided by nature. /news/2025-10-generative-ai-outperform-nature-proteins.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:50:05 EDT news678620131 Quantum computing is still in its early stages of development, but researchers have extensively explored its potential uses. A recent study conducted at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil proposed a hybrid quantum-classical model to support breast cancer diagnosis from medical images. /news/2025-10-combination-quantum-classical-early-diagnosis.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:10:04 EDT news678553441 A team of researchers at the University of Miami has developed a global atmospheric modeling framework that blends powerful research capabilities with accessibility for students and scientists alike. /news/2025-10-python-based-framework-climate-dynamics.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:14:04 EDT news678539641 Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide the audio automatically based on the pictures, reading lips and noting each time a foot hits the ground? /news/2025-10-ai-view-fusion-energy.html Plasma Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:16:05 EDT news678528962 Long-term weather forecasting is a difficult task, partly because weather systems are inherently chaotic. Though mathematical equations can approximate the underlying physics of weather, tiny inaccuracies that grow exponentially as a model progresses in time limit most physics-based forecasts to 2 weeks or less. /news/2025-09-algorithm-weather-ai.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:10:07 EDT news678463250 Many properties of the world's most advanced materials are beyond the reach of quantitative modeling. Understanding them also requires a human expert's reasoning and intuition, which can't be replicated by even the most powerful artificial intelligence, mixed with fortuitous accident, according to Eun-Ah Kim, the Hans A. Bethe Professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences. /news/2025-09-human-intuition-fuels-ai-driven.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:41:04 EDT news678454862 In a world covered with sensors and satellites, access to high-quality data that can help solve problems and improve systems is more widespread than ever. But with such a wealth of information at our disposal, how do we know we're choosing the right data—and using it correctly? /news/2025-09-importance-choice-effective.html Environment Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:40:01 EDT news678380969 The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in public administration is increasing worldwide—including in the allocation of social services such as unemployment benefits, housing benefits, and social welfare. However, an international research team from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Toulouse School of Economics has shown that those who depend on such benefits are most skeptical about automated decisions. To gain trust and acceptance for AI-supported systems, the perspectives of those affected must be considered. /news/2025-09-automatically-disadvantaged-benefit-recipients-ai.html Economics & Business Political science Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:57:06 EDT news678365822 Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via models made up of induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs. /news/2025-09-ai-reveals-hidden-features-embryo.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:57:04 EDT news678106622