/ 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. Organic particles that settle on the seabed ensure CO2 stays locked. However, natural gel-like substances slow down this process. Such microscale mechanisms play a crucial role in enhancing climate predictions. /news/2025-05-slower-microorganisms-bad-news-climate.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 28 May 2025 10:16:04 EDT news667646161 A new species of flapjack octopus, with massive eyes and blood-red tentacles, has been discovered from a deep-sea canyon off the coast of Australia. /news/2025-05-species-octopus-deep-sea-canyon.html Plants & Animals Tue, 20 May 2025 06:59:04 EDT news666943141 Hundreds of millions of people live in areas that could be affected by volcanic eruptions. Fortunately, clues at the surface, such as earthquakes and ground deformation, can indicate movement within underground magma dikes—sheets of magma that cut across layers of rock. Scientists can use these clues to make potentially lifesaving predictions of eruptions. /news/2025-04-magma-dikes-patterns.html Earth Sciences Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:10:06 EDT news665237402 Sit down, relax and get your nails done at the sustainability salon. In a new study, a team of researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder's ATLAS Institute has designed a new kind of press-on nails that are biodegradable, colorful and endlessly customizable. /news/2025-04-biodegradable-manicures-sustainable.html Environment Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:05:04 EDT news662814301 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 In a new paper, researchers at North Carolina State University show proof of concept for a system that—in a single cycle—actively removes microplastics from water. /news/2025-03-microcleaners-disperse-capture-microplastics.html Polymers Materials Science Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:10:06 EDT news662220601 Foie gras is a unique delicacy made from the liver of a duck or goose. While it can be an acquired taste, the buttery, fatty dish is an indulgent cuisine prized in many parts of the world. /news/2025-03-foie-gras.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:00:05 EDT news662026327 Chinese scientists have uncovered two major genes responsible for sorghum's double-grain spikelet that dramatically enhance grain number and crop yield. A substantial 35.7-kilobase intrachromosomal inversion at the DG1 (Double-Grain 1) promoter drives the upregulation of DG1 expression, leading to the development of double-grain spikelets that remarkably increase sorghum grain number while illustrating the critical role of genomic structural variation in plant evolution. /news/2025-03-scientists-variation-boosts-grain-sorghum.html Molecular & Computational biology Agriculture Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:32:04 EDT news660990722 A nut used in herbal tea has become a hydrogel perfect for a variety of biomedical uses in new research from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Engineering (UChicago PME) and UChicago Chemistry Department. /news/2025-02-material-tree-nuts-broad-medical.html Biochemistry Materials Science Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:00:07 EST news659003222 Scientists at UC Santa Cruz have completed the first end-to-end genome of the iconic Pacific banana slug, a species synonymous with California's coastal redwood forests and the university's beloved mascot. /news/2025-02-scientists-genome-banana-slug.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:54:10 EST news658151640 If you've ever made kombucha, you will be familiar with the term SCOBY—a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. It's impossible to miss—it's the floating biofilm on top of your delicious drink. /news/2025-01-fermented-biofilm-kombucha-green-textiles.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:32:03 EST news657279119 DNA profiling technologies are rapidly advancing, creating the potential to identify individuals involved in making, packing and transporting illegal capsules by analyzing the exterior of the illicit drugs and the plastic bag in which they are carried. /news/2025-01-dna-fingerprints-drug-makers-linked.html Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:05:02 EST news657277499 A team of research scientists led by US Food and Drug Administration chemist Timothy Duncan has found evidence of silver nanoparticles embedded in packaging used as an antimicrobial agent seeping into the dry food it is meant to protect. In their paper published in the journal ACS Food Science & Technology, the group describes how they created their own packaging with embedded silver nanoparticles and tested it with various foods, and what they learned by doing so. /news/2025-01-silver-nanoparticles-packaging-contaminate-dry.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:45:00 EST news656779493 In an era of medical care that is increasingly aiming at more targeted medication therapies, more individual therapies and more effective therapies, doctors and scientists want to be able to introduce molecules to the biological system to undertake specific actions. /news/2024-12-scientists-machine-molecular.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Soft Matter Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:00:01 EST news654497718 A collaborative study has uncovered evidence of rice beer dating back approximately 10,000 years at the Shangshan site in Zhejiang Province, China, providing new insights into the origins of alcoholic beverage brewing in East Asia. /news/2024-12-year-ancient-rice-beer-neolithic.html Archaeology Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:22:32 EST news652980141 Major findings on the inner workings of a brittle star's ability to reversibly control the pliability of its tissues will help researchers solve the puzzle of mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) and potentially inspire new "smart" biomaterials for human health applications. /news/2024-12-secrets-collagen-sea-creature-superpowers.html Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:02:04 EST news652723295 Researchers from the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) Microplastics at the University of Bayreuth have developed a new concept for the production of microplastic reference particles. These make it possible for the first time to introduce a precisely defined number of reference particles into experiments. In future, their use may enable better comparability of data from different microplastic studies. /news/2024-12-microplastic-particles-enable.html Environment Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:07:03 EST news652442821 A simple biomaterial-based strategy that can influence the behavior of cells could pave the way for more effective medical treatments such as wound healing, cancer therapy and even organ regeneration, according to a research team at Penn State. /news/2024-11-squishy-microgels-granular-biomaterials-confine.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:20:09 EST news650726401 MBARI researchers have discovered a remarkable new species of sea slug that lives in the deep sea. Bathydevius caudactylus swims through the ocean's midnight zone with a large gelatinous hood and paddle-like tail, and lights up with brilliant bioluminescence. The team published a description of the animal, nicknamed the "mystery mollusk," in the journal Deep-Sea Research Part I. /news/2024-11-bioluminescent-sea-slug-deep-ocean.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:00:02 EST news650626571 A German-American research team has discovered two highly unusual bacterial species in the tissue of two deep-sea corals from the Gulf of Mexico. These previously unknown coral symbionts have an extremely reduced genome and lack the ability to obtain energy from carbohydrates, the team reports in an article published in the journal Nature Communications. /news/2024-11-deep-sea-corals-home-previously.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:41:04 EST news649942862 Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a revolutionary injectable granular filler that could transform the way diabetic wounds are treated, potentially improving patient outcomes. The study, published in ACS Nano, introduced an innovative approach using specialized porous dermal fillers that accelerate tissue healing and regeneration. /news/2024-10-porous-nanofibrous-microspheres-diabetic-wound.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:15:53 EDT news649602949 A new article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the unprecedented ability for reverse development in a ctenophore, also called comb jelly. The findings suggest that life cycle plasticity in animals might be more common than previously thought. /news/2024-10-young-jellies-age-reverse.html Plants & Animals Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:26:03 EDT news649509961 Astronomers have observed Jupiter's legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises—especially when NASA's Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it. /news/2024-10-jupiter-great-red-unexpected-size.html Planetary Sciences Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:26:56 EDT news647710010 New DNA technology promises to improve efforts to monitor marine life in the Southern Ocean, and detect the presence of non-native marine species close to Antarctica. /news/2024-09-dna-technology-enables-molecular-marine.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 30 Sep 2024 12:31:03 EDT news646918261 A new study from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University is the first in the world to analyze fingerprints on gelatin lifters using chemical imaging. This could be crucial in criminal cases where current methods fall short. /news/2024-09-chemical-imaging-method-overlapping-fingerprints.html Analytical Chemistry Fri, 13 Sep 2024 11:38:03 EDT news645446281 Many marine organisms, like sea anemones, struggle to spread across the ocean, especially if they lack long, mobile larval stages. Unlike their jellyfish relatives, sea anemones do not have a medusa stage, making their dispersal challenging. Their only mobile stage is a tiny larva called a planula. /news/2024-09-jellyfish-uncovers-parasitic-spillover-burrowing.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:55:03 EDT news645180901 Via testing with a skin stand-in, a trio of physicists at Technical University of Denmark has ranked the types of paper that are the most likely to cause a paper cut. In an article published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review E, Sif Fink Arnbjerg-Nielsen, Matthew Biviano and Kaare Jensen tested the cutting ability and circumstances involved in paper cuts to compile their rankings. /news/2024-08-paper-likelihood.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 27 Aug 2024 09:08:39 EDT news643968513 In what they labeled a "surprising" finding, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers studying bacteria from freshwater lakes and soil say they have determined a protein's essential role in maintaining the germ's shape. Because the integrity of a bacterial cells envelope or enclosure is key to its survival, the finding could advance the search for new and better antibiotics. /news/2024-08-environmental-bacteria-advance-antibiotics.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:24:04 EDT news642932641 For a long time, scientists assumed that jellyfish were a dead-end food source for predatory fish. However, a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute together with the Thünen Institute has now discovered that fish in Greenland waters do indeed feed on jellyfish. /news/2024-08-fish-greenland-consume-jellyfish-previously.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:44:04 EDT news642851042 Growing functional human organs outside the body is a long-sought "holy grail" of organ transplantation medicine that remains elusive. New research from Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) brings that quest one big step closer to completion. /news/2024-08-3d-blood-vessels-artificial-closer.html Materials Science Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:09:56 EDT news642262190