/ 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. Butterflies' flight trajectories often appear random or chaotic, and compared with other hovering insects, their bodies follow seemingly mysterious, jagged, jerking motions. /news/2025-05-butterflies-differently-flying-body-pitch.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:01 EDT news666272456 A new study by Vanderbilt investigators has uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism: how tissues detect and respond to damage in basement membranes, the thin layers of extracellular matrix that surround and support nearly every organ in the body. /news/2025-05-tissues-body-hidden.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 12 May 2025 10:30:03 EDT news666264601 Computer simulations help materials scientists and biochemists study the motion of macromolecules, advancing the development of new drugs and sustainable materials. However, these simulations pose a challenge for even the most powerful supercomputers. /news/2025-05-mathematical-approach-simulations-large-molecule.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Sat, 10 May 2025 05:04:26 EDT news666072259 An innovative imaging technique developed at Carnegie Mellon University reveals single bacterial cells leaving their biofilm community. Watching the bacteria in real-time at high resolution affords unprecedented views that advance the understanding of how single cells in biofilms move and how biofilms disperse. /news/2025-05-imaging-technique-tracks-individual-bacterial.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 08 May 2025 11:35:04 EDT news665922901 Swarms of earthquakes have been jolting southern Italy with increasing intensity since 2022, threatening hundreds of thousands of people living atop a volcanic area known as Campi Flegrei, where the land experiences slow vertical movements. /news/2025-05-scientists-key-earthquake-italy-campi.html Earth Sciences Fri, 02 May 2025 14:00:01 EDT news665394181 A watched pot never boils, goes the old saying, but many of us have at least kept an eye on the pot, waiting for the bubbling to start. It's satisfying to finally see the rolling boil, behind which complex physical mechanisms are at play. /news/2025-05-microbubble-dynamics-enable-precision-fluid.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 02 May 2025 12:10:01 EDT news665406157 For communities living in the shadow of a volcano, early warning systems are a lifeline—but mistrust in these warnings can have deadly consequences. To avoid false alarms, it is vital that scientists seek more reliable ways to monitor volcanoes. /news/2025-05-eruption-approaches-earthquake-ontake-volcano.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 01 May 2025 12:20:04 EDT news665320801 Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are capable of behaving in ways that show they recognize aspects of music, including rhythm and beat, remains a tantalizing field at the intersection of biology and psychology. /news/2025-04-rhythmically-sea-lion-ronan-encore.html Plants & Animals Ecology Thu, 01 May 2025 11:00:02 EDT news665221261 Drying droplets have fascinated scientists for decades. From water to coffee to paint, these everyday fluids leave behind intricate patterns as they evaporate. But blood is far more complex—a colloidal suspension packed with red blood cells, plasma proteins, salts, and countless biomolecules. /news/2025-04-blood-droplets-inclined-surfaces-reveal.html Soft Matter Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:30:01 EDT news665197535 The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) has developed a compact, rapid pretreatment system capable of liquefying and homogenizing solid biological samples in under one minute. /news/2025-04-solid-biosample-field-ready-diagnostics.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:49:09 EDT news665153344 When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50% of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants. Now, a team of researchers from MIT and Singapore has developed a much more precise way to deliver substances to plants: tiny needles made of silk. /news/2025-04-scientists-silk-microneedles-nutrients-chemicals.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:18:05 EDT news665151481 The beloved Italian pasta cacio e pepe is perhaps best known for two things: being delicious and being frustratingly difficult to cook. At first glance, it looks like a simple recipe, containing only three ingredients: pasta, pecorino romano cheese, and black pepper. But as anyone who has tried to make it will know, the cheese will often clump when added to the hot pasta water, turning what is supposed to be a smooth, creamy sauce into a stringy, sticky mess. /news/2025-04-scientific-method-flawless-cacio-pepe.html Soft Matter Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:03 EDT news665136061 Exosomes, secreted by most cells, carry biological information and proteins that serve as noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosing and predicting disease progression and metastasis. However, the rapid isolation of high-purity exosomes from various biofluids, such as undiluted whole blood, plasma and serum, remains a challenge. /news/2025-04-oscillating-microbubbles-exosomes-blood-minutes.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:27:03 EDT news665062021 Imagine if a plant in a farmer's field could warn a grower that it needs water? Or if a farmer could signal to plants that dry weather lies ahead, thereby prompting the plants to conserve water? /news/2025-04-century-mystery-communication-stress-negative.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:12:04 EDT news664636321 Microplastics and much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we breathe. A large proportion is excreted, but a certain amount remains in organs, blood, and other body fluids. /news/2025-04-nanoplastics-body-fluids-method-combines.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:48:03 EDT news663850082 In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from electromagnetic (EM) data collected at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. /news/2025-04-crustal-brines-oceanic-fault-explores.html Earth Sciences Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:16:03 EDT news663848161 In a new Nature Â鶹ÒùÔºics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in groups of living cells. /news/2025-04-scientists-evidence-universal-conformal-invariance.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 11 Apr 2025 06:30:03 EDT news663499272 As you read this sentence, trillions of cells are moving around in your body. From the red blood cells being pumped by your heart, to the immune cells racing across your lymphatic system, everything you need to live pulsates and flows in a turbulent dance of finely tuned biological machinery. /news/2025-04-simulating-fluid-dynamics-cells.html Soft Matter Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:34:04 EDT news663503641 Monash researchers have discovered that swimming sperm create swirling fluid vortices—shaped like rolling corkscrews—giving them an extra boost in the race to the egg. /news/2025-04-sperm-dont.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:07:00 EDT news663336416 Lacquers, paint, concrete—and even ketchup or orange juice: Suspensions are widespread in industry and everyday life. By a suspension, materials scientists mean a liquid in which tiny, insoluble solid particles are evenly distributed. If the concentration of particles in such a mixture is very high, phenomena can be observed that contradict our everyday understanding of a liquid. For example, these so-called non-Newtonian fluids suddenly become more viscous when a strong force acts upon them. For a brief moment, the liquid behaves like a solid. /news/2025-04-ketchup-concrete-particles-suspensions-fluid.html Soft Matter Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:09:03 EDT news663250141 Researchers from Hanyang University have developed an innovative micropillar array capable of collective and rapid magnetic oscillations, demonstrating strong potential for advanced applications in robotics, fluid transport, and dynamic surface control. /news/2025-04-synchronized-magnetic-oscillations-enable-micropillar.html Nanomaterials Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:07:04 EDT news662814421 An international research team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has achieved a breakthrough in the field of medical microrobots by developing the world's first antibiofilm liquid-bodied magnetic-controlled robot. /news/2025-04-liquid-bodied-robot-enables-precise.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:54:38 EDT news662738067 The Dutch master Vincent van Gogh may have painted one of Western history's most enduring works, but "The Starry Night" is not a masterpiece of flow physics—despite recent attention to its captivating swirls, according to researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Washington. /news/2025-04-vincent-van-gogh-starry-night.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Soft Matter Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:08:03 EDT news662728082 With increased awareness about food sources and their environmental impacts, replacing animal-derived products in food and drugs is a significant research area. One common—but often overlooked—animal protein is gelatin, found everywhere from candy to plastic-free packaging. /news/2025-03-based-gelatin-gum-tragacanth-animal.html Soft Matter Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:01 EDT news662646018 Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis suggest that the planet's outer crust may be constantly churning, an unexpected phenomenon called convection that could help explain many of the volcanoes and other features of the Venusian landscape. /news/2025-03-convection-crust-venus-volcanoes.html Planetary Sciences Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:21:03 EDT news662631660 All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't react chemically with each other. But what if some of them do? /news/2025-03-atmospheres-planets-unexpected-mixtures-hydrogen.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 27 Mar 2025 08:46:04 EDT news662283961 New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets. Establishing a direct link between Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first 100 million years of its history and its present-day structure, the work is one of the first in the field to combine fluid mechanics with chemistry to better understand Earth's early evolution. /news/2025-03-earliest-days-earth-formation.html Earth Sciences Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:37:03 EDT news662218622 For decades, researchers have explored how electrons behave in quantum materials. Under certain conditions, electrons interact strongly with each other instead of moving independently, leading to exotic quantum states. One such state, first proposed by Nobel laureate Eugene Wigner, is the Wigner crystal—a structured electron arrangement caused by their mutual repulsion. Although widely theorized, experimental proof has been rare. /news/2025-03-elusive-electronic-rotons-reveal-formation.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:31:03 EDT news662218261 Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers—including fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides—could cut down the amount of polluting runoff that ends up in the environment while at the same time reducing farmers' costs and perhaps even enhancing their productivity. A classic win-win-win. /news/2025-03-spray-technology-pesticides-polluting-runoff.html Biotechnology Agriculture Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:28:05 EDT news662128081 Plant behavior may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, who tirelessly feed the entire biosphere (including us), are full of exciting action. It just requires a little more effort to appreciate. /news/2025-03-millions-tiny-mouths-lasers-illuminate.html Evolution Biotechnology Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:19:32 EDT news662120367