/ en-us 麻豆淫院 internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: 麻豆淫院ics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. ChatGPT was released to the public in late 2022, and the promise and perils of artificial intelligence (AI) have loomed large in the public consciousness ever since. Because perceptions of a new technology like AI can help shape how the technology is developed and used, it is important to understand what Americans think about AI鈥攈ow positively or negatively they regard the technology, and what hopes and concerns they have about it. /news/2025-06-ai-negatively-climate-science-general.html Social Sciences Political science Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:00:04 EDT news669383703 Antarctic krill is a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem as an important food source for many species, such as whales, seals and penguins. However, the small crustaceans are increasingly targeted as part of a growing fishing industry, which has significant consequences for the entire Southern Ocean ecosystem. Therefore, ways to minimize the negative effects of fishing on the krill themselves and on the animals that feed on them are urgently needed. /news/2025-06-acoustic-reveal-fishing-vessels-whales.html Ecology Agriculture Tue, 17 Jun 2025 10:03:58 EDT news669373430 In a new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities discovered surprising magnetic behavior in one of the thinnest metallic oxide materials ever made. This could pave the way for the next generation of faster and smarter spintronic and quantum computing devices. /news/2025-06-ultra-thin-metallic-oxide-reveals.html Condensed Matter Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:37:35 EDT news669296252 Bacteria carry countless hidden treasures in their DNA鈥攆ragments that could hold the key to new medicines. But how do you pick out the most promising ones from millions of options? "Look at the switches that turn genes on and off," says molecular biologist Gilles van Wezel. /news/2025-06-smarter-antibiotics-focus-genetic.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:38:03 EDT news669292681 Thalidomide, a drug once used to alleviate morning sickness in pregnant women, exhibits distinct properties due to its optical isomers in the body: one isomer has a sedative effect, while the other causes severe side effects such as birth defects. As this example illustrates, precise organic synthesis techniques, which selectively synthesize only the desired optical isomer, are crucial in new drug development. /news/2025-06-ai-drug-simultaneous-analysis-chemical.html Analytical Chemistry Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:00:04 EDT news669290401 A patch containing tens of millions of microscopic nanoneedles could soon replace traditional biopsies, scientists have found. The patch offers a painless and less invasive alternative for millions of patients worldwide who undergo biopsies each year to detect and monitor diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's. The research is published in Nature Nanotechnology. /news/2025-06-nanoneedle-patch-painless-alternative-traditional.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 16 Jun 2025 05:00:04 EDT news669023134 Tuberculosis is the world's leading infectious cause of death, killing more than one million people each year. When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline quickly became the key drug in all standard drug-resistant tuberculosis regimens globally. Unfortunately, clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains rapidly become resistant to bedaquiline, predominantly by overexpression of MmpL5. /news/2025-06-molecular-tuberculosis-efflux-reveals-bacteria.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:39:33 EDT news669026371 In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions鈥攁 feat that many scientists didn't think was possible. /news/2025-06-quantum-device-atoms-3d.html Condensed Matter Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:18:04 EDT news668870281 Scientists at Northwestern University have developed the largest open-access resource of its kind to help researchers shave off months of early-stage drug development time by allowing them to better understand diseases and find potential treatments. /news/2025-06-molecular-gps-gene-fast-track.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:00:03 EDT news668854681 Archaeologists often face major challenges when trying to connect new discoveries with information from old books: How can the findings of 200 years of archaeological research be combined with new data? /news/2025-06-archaeology-age-big-user-friendly.html Archaeology Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:37:36 EDT news668864252 Breathalyzers are a frequently used tool to measure the amount of ethanol in someone's breath, which relates to their blood alcohol content. However, alcoholic beverages contaminated by methanol (sometimes called wood alcohol) are hard to identify and toxic if ingested. /news/2025-06-methanol-poisoning-easily-breathalyzer-sensor.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 11 Jun 2025 08:00:04 EDT news668748040 Using AI to analyze brain scans of students solving math problems, researchers offer the first-ever glimpse into the neural roots of math learning disabilities. /news/2025-06-digital-twins-reveal-math-disabilities.html Mathematics Education Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:50:01 EDT news668773093 Researchers from the Sydney Institute of Agriculture at the University of Sydney investigated the vast and largely hidden world beneath our feet. Soil is where 59% of all life on Earth resides. /news/2025-06-fantastic-soil-microbes.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:07:15 EDT news668768831 Technology veteran IBM on Tuesday laid out a plan to have a "practical" quantum computer tackling big problems before the end of this decade. /news/2025-06-ibm-real-world-edge-quantum.html Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:13:26 EDT news668758376 Understanding how molecules interact is central to biology: from decoding how living organisms function to uncovering disease mechanisms and developing life-saving drugs. In recent years, models like AlphaFold changed our ability to predict the 3D structure of proteins, offering crucial insights into molecular shape and interaction. /news/2025-06-protein-affinity-role-ai-drug.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:46:20 EDT news668702773 One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. /news/2025-06-quantum-machine-small-scale-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 麻豆淫院ics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:21:04 EDT news668686862 A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for designing and creating universal diffractive waveguides that can control the flow of light in highly specific and complex ways. /news/2025-06-ai-waveguides-pave-generation-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:26:03 EDT news668679961 Inspired by the way viruses attach to cells, EPFL scientists have developed a method for engineering ultra-selective aptamers. /news/2025-06-ultra-aptamers-viruses-medicine.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 06 Jun 2025 09:03:03 EDT news668419381 A research team from Skoltech, AIRI, Tomsk Polytechnic University, and Sber has proposed and tested an approach to predicting the modification of material properties. Artificial intelligence models that were pre-trained on a small amount of data enabled a significant increase in the calculation of the formation energies in possible configurations of higher tungsten boride doped with other metals. /news/2025-06-ai-metal-doped-compounds-mechanical.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:05:04 EDT news668336701 AI is transforming every industry, from medicine to film to finance. So, why not use it to study one of the world's most revered ancient texts, the Bible? /news/2025-06-ai-reveals-hidden-language-patterns.html Mathematics Archaeology Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:07:05 EDT news668326022 Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the scrolls is from the third century BCE until the second century CE, individual manuscripts thus far could not be securely dated. /news/2025-06-timecode-dead-sea-scrolls.html Archaeology Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:00:05 EDT news668245561 A research team has developed a novel method for estimating the predictability of complex dynamical systems. Their work, "Time-lagged recurrence: A data-driven method to estimate the predictability of dynamical systems," published on 16 May 2025, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, introduces a technique called Time-Lagged Recurrence (TLR) that addresses a fundamental question in science and engineering: given a system's current state, how far into the future can we reliably predict its behavior? /news/2025-06-driven-method-reveals-unpredictable-complex.html Mathematics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:00:02 EDT news668260601 A group of bat viruses closely related to the deadly Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) could be one small mutation away from being capable of spilling over into human populations and potentially causing the next pandemic. /news/2025-06-viruses-similar-mers-potential-humans.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:00:04 EDT news668253601 Artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous in this era. As a result, human-AI interactions are becoming more frequent and complex, and this trend is expected to accelerate soon. Therefore, scientists have made remarkable efforts to better understand human-AI relationships in terms of trust and companionship. However, these man-machine interactions can possibly also be understood in terms of attachment-related functions and experiences, which have traditionally been used to explain human interpersonal bonds. /news/2025-06-human-ai-relationships-scale-patterns.html Social Sciences Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:34:04 EDT news668082841 In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between. /news/2025-05-astronomers-evidence-intermediate-mass-black.html Astronomy Fri, 30 May 2025 11:59:04 EDT news667825141 Oregon State University scientists have improved artificial intelligence's ability to identify wildlife species in photos taken by motion-activated cameras. /news/2025-05-wildlife-ai-animal-species-trail.html Ecology Biotechnology Thu, 29 May 2025 14:21:04 EDT news667747262 Artificial intelligence sea ice forecasting systems could help predict and protect the migration routes of endangered caribou in the Canadian Arctic, according to a new study. The research, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, WWF and the Government of Nunavut, demonstrates how this technology could assist local agencies in protecting critical migration routes which cross areas of land and sea ice. /news/2025-05-ai-tool-aids-caribou-arctic.html Ecology Biotechnology Thu, 29 May 2025 10:17:03 EDT news667732619 As fast as modern electronics have become, they could be much faster if their operations were based on light, rather than electricity. Fiber optic cables already transport information at the speed of light; to do computations on that information without translating it back to electric signals will require a host of new optical components. /news/2025-05-memory-chiral-photonic-device-enables.html General 麻豆淫院ics Optics & Photonics Wed, 28 May 2025 15:34:53 EDT news667665287 In a leap forward for genetic and biomedical research, two scientists at the University of Missouri have developed a powerful new artificial intelligence tool that can predict the 3D shape of chromosomes inside individual cells鈥攈elping researchers gain a new view of how our genes work. /news/2025-05-ai-tool-reveals-cell-chromosomes.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 28 May 2025 13:04:03 EDT news667656241 A research team has discovered ferroelectric phenomena occurring at a subatomic scale in the natural mineral brownmillerite. /news/2025-05-phonon-decoupling-naturally-mineral-enables.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 27 May 2025 15:48:00 EDT news667579678