/ en-us �鶹��Ժ internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: �鶹��Ժics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Based on simulations, researchers report that the next big earthquake along the San Andreas fault is unlikely to resemble previous quakes. Researchers at the intersection of algebra, geometry, particle physics and cosmology are making headway in describing the shape of the universe. And common food thickeners based on derivatives of cellulose don't just pass through your digestive tract as previously believed—gut bacteria are able to feed on them. /news/2025-08-saturday-citations-category-supernovas-neurons.html Other Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:30:01 EDT news674476215 For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reimagined the pollination process by developing a new system that uses gene editing to create flowers that can be easily pollinated by AI-controlled robots working round the clock. /news/2025-08-redesigned-robots-gene-ai-faster.html Biotechnology Agriculture Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:28 EDT news674472860 A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the lightning in the cloud—a finding that sheds light on how the power in lightning radiates. This, in turn, gives insight into lightning initiation in a particularly powerful type of in-cloud lightning. /news/2025-08-sensor-powerful-lightning-clouds.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:35:01 EDT news674469298 Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? /news/2025-08-complex-deep-genetic-perturbation-simple.html Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:50:01 EDT news674387427 Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies. /news/2025-08-ai-nanoparticles-efficient-rna-vaccine.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:00:01 EDT news674411341 Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called SonicBoom that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be used by farm robots for tasks like pruning vines or locating ripe apples hidden among the leaves. /news/2025-08-agricultural-sensor-crops-vibrations-alternative.html Biotechnology Agriculture Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:23:04 EDT news674407382 Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work together to build complex life forms. /news/2025-08-algae-reveal-geometry-life.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:09:03 EDT news674392141 With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). /news/2025-08-generative-ai-compounds-drug-resistant.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:00:12 EDT news674293562 Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small whole organism at once. The ability to image 3D changes in real time over a large field of view could lead to new insights in developmental biology and neuroscience. /news/2025-08-multifocus-microscope-limits-fast-3d.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:01 EDT news674382481 Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen. /news/2025-08-astronomers-supernova-triggered-black-hole.html Astronomy Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:59:16 EDT news674380752 In the world of nanotechnology, seeing clearly isn't easy. It's even harder when you're trying to understand how a material's properties relate to its structure at the nanoscale. Tools like piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) help scientists peer into the nanoscale functionality of materials, revealing how they respond to electric fields. But those signals are often buried in noise, especially in instances where the most interesting physics happens. /news/2025-08-clarity-noise-approach-recovers-hidden.html Nanomaterials Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:58:05 EDT news674315881 Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, with the simple chemical formula Al2O3, occurs frequently in Earth's crust in the form of the mineral corundum and its well-known color variants sapphires and rubies—and is used for a wide variety of purposes, whether in electronics, the chemical industry, or technical ceramics. /news/2025-08-machine-reveals-mysteries-amorphous-alumina.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:13:03 EDT news674309581 A public‑private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma �鶹��Ժics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what's known as "magnetic shadows" in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma. /news/2025-08-shadows-fusion-faster-ai.html Plasma �鶹��Ժics Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:14:04 EDT news674298842 Collecting and analyzing the amount of toxic micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in water is comparatively easy: Fill a bucket from your source, evaporate the water, and count and characterize the plastics that are left behind. But what if you want to know how many MNPs are in that apple you're about to eat, the tree in your backyard, or even in your brain? /news/2025-08-bad-micro-nanoplastics-health.html Environment Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:49:00 EDT news674228928 A research team headed by the University of Zurich has developed a powerful new method to precisely edit DNA by combining cutting-edge genetic engineering with artificial intelligence. The work has been published in Nature Biotechnology. /news/2025-08-ai-crispr-precise-gene.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:23:04 EDT news674216581 A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa is making it easier for scientists to explore complex geoscience data—from tracking sea levels on Earth to analyzing atmospheric conditions on Mars. /news/2025-08-idea-ai-geoscientists-explore-earth.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:55:05 EDT news674207702 One-third of shark species are at risk of extinction, yet scientists still lack basic data on their habitats, populations, and trends. To solve this, researchers at Virginia Tech, Stanford University, and others are building the world's largest open database of shark sightings using online photos called sharkPulse. /news/2025-08-ai-citizen-science-combine-sharks.html Ecology Biotechnology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:20:30 EDT news674133624 Researchers from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and the U.S. have reconstructed the composition of phytoplankton communities around Antarctica over nearly three decades, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. /news/2025-08-shifting-foundations-antarctic-food-web.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:23:07 EDT news674126581 After enduring centuries of hunting, habitat loss, and disease, North American beavers (Castor canadensis) are making a comeback—and bringing benefits for both humans and nature with them. /news/2025-08-strategically-beavers-healthy-climate-resilient.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:11:05 EDT news674122262 Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) models, learn to make accurate predictions by analyzing large amounts of data. These networks are structured in layers, each of which transforms input data into 'features' that guide the analysis of the next layer. /news/2025-08-geometry-physics-feature-deep-neural.html General �鶹��Ժics Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:30:01 EDT news673259275 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have upended assumptions about how water behaves when squeezed into atom-scale spaces. By applying spectroscopic tools together with the machine learning simulation technique to water confined in a space of only a few molecules thick, the team, led by Mischa Bonn, found that water's structure remains strikingly "normal" until confined to below a nanometer, far thinner than previously believed. /news/2025-08-nanospace-surfaces-confinement-thinnest-limits.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:50:03 EDT news673872601 Fighting off pathogens is a tour de force that must happen with speed and precision. A team of researchers at CeMM and MedUni Vienna led by Christoph Bock and Matthias Farlik has investigated how macrophages—immune cells that are the body's first responders—master this challenge. /news/2025-08-molecular-timeline-insights-immune-cells.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:00:02 EDT news673778162 Glaciers carved the deep valleys of Banff, eroded Ontario to deposit the fertile soils of the Prairies, and continue to change Earth's surface. But how fast do glaciers sculpt the landscape? /news/2025-08-machine-global-glacier-erosion-precision.html Earth Sciences Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:31:45 EDT news673799501 On New Year's Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed into the Draupner oil platform. The wall of water crumpled steel railings and flung heavy equipment across the deck—but its biggest impact was what it left behind: hard data. It was the first time a rogue wave had ever been measured in the open ocean. /news/2025-08-rogue-demystified-giant-seas-ocean.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:39:12 EDT news673789147 A machine learning method developed by researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and other institutions accurately predicts liquid crystallinity of polymers with 96% accuracy. They screened over 115,000 polyimides and selected six candidates with a high probability of exhibiting liquid crystallinity. Upon successful synthesis and experimental analyses, these liquid crystalline polyimides demonstrated thermal conductivities up to 1.26 W m⁻¹ K⁻¹, accelerating the discovery of efficient thermal materials for next-generation electronics. /news/2025-08-ai-advanced-dissipating-polymers.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:08:03 EDT news673787281 A new study combines eye tracking and artificial intelligence to identify the exact moments in an educational video that matter for learning in children. /news/2025-08-tech-videos-students.html Education Thu, 07 Aug 2025 10:00:04 EDT news673779601 Large language models (LLMs), advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models trained to analyze and generate texts in different human languages, have become increasingly widespread over the past few years. Since the release of the conversational platform ChatGPT, which relies on different versions of an LLM called GPT, these models have become widely used by individuals worldwide, while also making their way into some professional and research settings. /news/2025-08-llms-psychological-outcomes-childhood-essays.html Social Sciences Education Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:00:01 EDT news673694784 Metaphors are a fundamental aspect of human language and cognition, allowing us to understand complex concepts and relationships by mapping them onto more familiar and concrete domains. However, the nature of metaphors and how they work is still not well understood. /news/2025-08-words-cognitive-metaphor.html Mathematics Social Sciences Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:02:03 EDT news673700522 Hydrogels are a permeable soft material consisting of polymer networks and water with applications ranging from biomedical engineering to contact lenses. Intrinsic to hydrogels is the ability to endow diverse characteristics by modifying their polymer networks. /news/2025-08-immovable-rubber-ducks-highest-underwater.html Polymers Materials Science Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:00:09 EDT news673602721 A team of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is digitizing images of pollen from more than 18,000 plant species from the tropics. The work is published in the journal PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET. /news/2025-08-digitize-pollen-species.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:40:02 EDT news673677063