/ 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. Trawling restrictions not only benefit fish and shellfish; anemones and corals are also becoming more common, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg. Twenty-six years of underwater videos from the depths of the Koster Sea also show long-term changes in the ecosystem as the water becomes warmer. /news/2025-10-unique-videos-trawling-restrictions-life.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:20:15 EDT news678701997 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 The most distant and most powerful "odd radio circle" (ORC) known so far has been discovered by astronomers. These curious rings are a relatively newly identified astronomical phenomenon, having been detected for the first time just six years ago. Only a handful of confirmed examples are known—most of which are 10–20 times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. /news/2025-10-powerful-odd-radio-circle-date.html Astronomy Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:45:35 EDT news678617123 Though it might seem like science fiction, scientists are working to build nanoscale molecular machines that can be designed for myriad applications, such as "smart" medicines and materials. But like all machines, these tiny devices need a source of power, the way electronic appliances use electricity or living cells use ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the universal biological energy source). /news/2025-10-rechargeable-powers-nanoscale-molecular-machines.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:40:04 EDT news678552001 Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully applied cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to unveil the molecular structures of critical protein machines that transport lipids and maintain the outer membrane (OM) barrier of Gram-negative bacteria. /news/2025-10-cryo-em-reveals-protein-complexes.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:00:02 EDT news678549389 A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering and the University of Houston's Cullen College of Engineering has discovered and measured the fraction of an electron that makes catalytic manufacturing possible. /news/2025-10-energy-fraction-electron-catalysis.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:56:23 EDT news678549372 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 University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new tool that makes greener chemistry more accessible. The tool, described in a study published in Nature, removes a major barrier to wider adoption of biocatalysis. /news/2025-09-catnip-chemists-driven-tool-broadens.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:05 EDT news678461221 To probe the mysteries of how galaxies evolve over time, scientists needed a supercomputer with out-of-this-world computational power. /news/2025-10-supercomputer-simulations-pierce-mysteries-galactic.html Astronomy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:30:08 EDT news678531057 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 Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how frequently it has experienced collisions. The findings, presented at the recent EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki, are based on data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission and provide a means of determining an asteroid's physical properties—information that is vital for successfully deflecting asteroids on a collision course with Earth. /news/2025-09-gaia-mystery-asteroids-probe-interiors.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:30:07 EDT news678457179 Researchers from The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel computational framework that addresses a longstanding challenge in statistical physics. /news/2025-09-ai-tensor-network-based-framework.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Condensed Matter Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:12:04 EDT news678456722 Air quality in America's largest cities has steadily improved thanks to tighter regulations on key sources of particulate pollution. However, increased heat, wildfire smoke and other emerging global drivers of urban aerosol pollution are now combining to create a new set of challenges for public health officials tasked with protecting millions of people on the East Coast. /news/2025-09-frequent-wildfires-air-quality-issues.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:45:05 EDT news678455101 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 Researchers at Georgia Tech have analyzed the seasonal differences of sulfate aerosols—a major pollutant in the United States—to examine the long-term impact from sulfur dioxide (SOâ‚‚) emission reductions since the enactment of the Clean Air Act amendments in 1990. /news/2025-09-decades-full-impact-air-pollution.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:45:04 EDT news678365102 Researchers from FishEye Collaborative, a conservation-technology nonprofit, Cornell University, and Aalto University have developed a new tool that combines underwater sound recording and 360° video to pinpoint the sounds made by individual fish. The findings are published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. /news/2025-09-noise-fish-underwater-tool-ecologists.html Ecology Biotechnology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:40:01 EDT news678108236 Nearly every cell in your body depends on mitochondria to survive and function properly. Mitochondria provide 90% of our bodies' energy, but less well-known are their roles in cellular signaling and in eliminating defective cells, which is important for stopping cancer before it starts. /news/2025-09-molecular-mechanisms-reveal-physics-mitochondria.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:42:33 EDT news678098542 Amid high expectations for quantum technology, a new paper in Science reports a proven quantum advantage. In an experiment, entangled light has allowed researchers to learn a system's noise with very few measurements. /news/2025-09-proven-quantum-advantage-task-million.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:55:04 EDT news678030901 Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables. Compare that with human scientists who work in a collaborative environment and consider experimental results, the broader scientific literature, imaging and structural analysis, personal experience or intuition, and input from colleagues and peer reviewers. /news/2025-09-ai-driven-blends-literature-robotics.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:34:05 EDT news678029641 They linger in our water, our blood, and the environment—"forever chemicals" that are notoriously difficult to detect. /news/2025-09-tiny-sensors-rapidly-chemicals.html Environment Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:50:05 EDT news678023401 You'd think there's nothing surprising left to discover about water. After all, researchers have been studying its properties for centuries. /news/2025-09-chilling-discovery-flexibility-ice-nanoscale.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:01:09 EDT news678016864 The Yale labs of Craig Roy and Jun Liu have harnessed the power of cryo-EM to solve a 30-year mystery of how the Legionella bacteria works. The findings represent the next steps in the search for new therapeutic drugs to tackle the severe form of pneumonia. /news/2025-09-3d-yale-scientists-legionnaires-disease.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:35:05 EDT news678015301 Everyday items like car tires, plastic bags and foam cushions come from materials called polymers that can take years to develop and test. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new approach to create better rubber-like materials more quickly by combining artificial intelligence with human expertise. /news/2025-09-ai-chemists-rubber-materials.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:00:03 EDT news677937008 Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton. The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) has now presented the first comprehensive analysis of its global distribution. /news/2025-09-global-potentially-dangerous-vibrio-vulnificus.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:49:05 EDT news677936942 Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond. Unlike classical bits, qubits can exist in two states at once—a phenomenon called superposition. This quirk of quantum physics gives quantum computers the potential to perform certain complex calculations better than their classical counterparts, but it also means the qubits are fragile. To compensate, researchers are building quantum computers with extra, redundant qubits to correct any errors. That is why robust quantum computers will require hundreds of thousands of qubits. /news/2025-09-physicists-qubit-array.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:47:03 EDT news677936821 Researchers have built on past studies and introduced new methods to explore the nature and role of subsurface fluids, including water, in the instances and behaviors of earthquakes and volcanoes. Their study suggests that water, even heavy rainfall, can play a role in or even trigger seismic events. This could potentially lead to better early warning systems. /news/2025-09-supercritical-subsurface-fluids-window-world.html Earth Sciences Wed, 24 Sep 2025 05:00:02 EDT news677773990 Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have created an innovative method to visualize and analyze atomic structures within specially designed, ultrathin bilayer 2D materials. When precisely aligned at an angle, these materials exhibit unique properties that could lead to advancements in quantum computing, superconductors and ultraefficient electronics. /news/2025-09-scientists-visualize-atomic-moir-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:21:04 EDT news677845261 Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a platform that combines automated wet lab techniques with artificial intelligence (AI) to design nanoparticles for drug delivery. The approach could help researchers deliver difficult-to-encapsulate therapeutics more efficiently and effectively. /news/2025-09-ai-nanoparticles-drug-delivery.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:09:29 EDT news677768960 A new trick for modeling molecules with quantum accuracy takes a step toward revealing the equation at the center of a popular simulation approach, which is used in fundamental chemistry and materials science studies. /news/2025-09-approach-accuracy-quantum-chemistry-simulations.html Materials Science Other Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:30:38 EDT news677554223