/ 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. Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in France have now demonstrated a novel way of processing information using light and optical fibers, opening up the possibility of building ultra-fast computers. The studies are published in Optics Letters and on the arXiv preprint server. /news/2025-06-based-optical-fibers-potential-ultra.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:33:04 EDT news669465182 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 �鶹��Ժics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:21:04 EDT news668686862 Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a machine learning framework that can predict with quantum-level accuracy how materials respond to electric fields, up to the scale of a million atoms—vastly accelerating simulations beyond quantum mechanical methods, which can model only a few hundred atoms at a time. /news/2025-06-electric-response-materials-million-atoms.html Condensed Matter Quantum �鶹��Ժics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:54:04 EDT news668678042 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 When two-dimensional electron systems are subjected to magnetic fields at low temperatures, they can exhibit interesting states of matter, such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. These are exotic states of matter characterized by fractionalized excitations and the emergence of interesting topological phenomena. /news/2025-05-fermionic-neural-network-ground-state.html Condensed Matter Quantum �鶹��Ժics Thu, 22 May 2025 09:50:25 EDT news667126215 A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could influence people's choices more effectively than relying on gut instincts or even traditional psychology. This discovery could pave the way for smarter, more ethical tools to improve decision-making in areas like education, health, and everyday life. /news/2025-05-intuition-mathematical-behavior.html Mathematics Social Sciences Mon, 19 May 2025 10:58:03 EDT news666871081 In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals as they go about their very different lives. And it's more widespread than previously imagined. /news/2025-05-mammals-behavior-hints-underlying-architecture.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 16 May 2025 14:07:04 EDT news666623222 Ribonucleic acid, also called RNA, is a molecule present in all living cells. It plays a critical role in transmitting genetic instructions from DNA and creating proteins. With the power to execute a plethora of functions, the little RNA "messenger" has led to important innovations across therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines, and made us rethink our understanding of life itself. /news/2025-05-qa-generative-ai-technique-rna.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 14 May 2025 16:26:05 EDT news666458762 In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine‐learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities. /news/2025-04-advance-fault-tolerant-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:01 EDT news665134397 The human genome is like a big ball of yarn, made up of 3 billion molecular units arranged in sequence and then wrapped up around itself. Within this ball of yarn are your genes, which are regions of DNA that get copied and then turned into miniature molecular machines called proteins. The three-dimensional structure of the yarn dictates which of your genes get turned into proteins, and when this system fails, disease develops. But until now, it has not been possible to visualize how different regions of DNA talk to each other across space and time. /news/2025-04-imaging-tool-scientists-genome-dynamics.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:10:04 EDT news665053764 In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, color-changing responsive materials and paving the way for novel applications like smart textiles and advanced robotics. /news/2025-03-3d-method-materials-smart-textiles.html Materials Science Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:53:04 EDT news662651581 Researchers at the Arc Institute, Stanford University, and NVIDIA have developed Evo 2, an advanced AI model capable of predicting genetic variations and generating genomic sequences across all domains of life. /news/2025-03-evo-generative-genomic-ai-domains.html Evolution Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:30:04 EST news660219864 A research team led by Rumi Chunara—an NYU associate professor with appointments in both the Tandon School of Engineering and the School of Global Public Health—has unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses satellite imagery to track urban green spaces more accurately than prior methods, critical to ensuring healthy cities. /news/2025-02-ai-accurately-urban-green-spaces.html Environment Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:32:05 EST news659277122 Researchers at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering have used machine learning to design nano-architected materials that have the strength of carbon steel but the lightness of Styrofoam. /news/2025-01-machine-3d-yield-steel-strong.html Nanomaterials Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:57:11 EST news656956625 As the capabilities of generative AI models have grown, you've probably seen how they can transform simple text prompts into hyperrealistic images and even extended video clips. /news/2025-01-video-generative-molecular-world.html Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 23 Jan 2025 14:41:05 EST news656865662 Proteins are the foundation of all life we currently know. With their virtually limitless diversity, they can perform a broad variety of biological functions, from delivering oxygen to cells and acting as chemical messengers to defending the body against pathogens. Furthermore, most biochemical reactions are only possible thanks to enzymes, a special type of protein catalysts. /news/2025-01-geometric-machine-method-precision-drug.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 15 Jan 2025 12:42:05 EST news656167322 Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of 1,000-plus years, tried to make gold by combining things like lead, mercury, and sulfur, mixed in what they hoped would be just the right proportions. Even famous scientists like Tycho Brahe, Robert Boyle, and Isaac Newton tried their hands at the fruitless endeavor we call alchemy. /news/2025-01-chemistry-method-electronic.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:29:06 EST news656094541 Nonlinear dynamical systems are systems that can undergo sudden shifts not due to changes in their state or stability, but in response to the rate at which external conditions or parameters change. These sudden shifts, known as noise-induced and rate-induced tipping, can make predicting how the systems will shift over time more challenging. /news/2024-12-deep-techniques-sudden-state-transitions.html Mathematics Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:17:50 EST news653653056 A pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered model able to understand the sequences and structure patterns that make up the genetic "language" of plants, has been launched by a research collaboration. /news/2024-12-ai-rna-language-life.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:25:07 EST news652965904 The deep neural network models that power today's most demanding machine-learning applications have grown so large and complex that they are pushing the limits of traditional electronic computing hardware. /news/2024-12-photonic-processor-enable-ultrafast-ai.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:01 EST news652351875 Whether it's our phones, cars, televisions, medical devices or even washing machines, we now have computers everywhere. /news/2024-11-sand-superposition-key-powerful-silicon.html Condensed Matter Quantum �鶹��Ժics Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:49:04 EST news651930541 Humans get a real buzz from the virtual world of gaming and augmented reality, but now scientists have trialed the use of these new-age technologies on small animals, to test the reactions of tiny hoverflies and even crabs. /news/2024-11-insects-react-virtual-reality-gaming.html Plants & Animals Biotechnology Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:02:05 EST news651841312 Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing and Toshiba have succeeded in building a quantum computer gate based on a double-transmon coupler (DTC), which had been proposed theoretically as a device that could significantly enhance the fidelity of quantum gates. /news/2024-11-scientists-high-fidelity-quantum-gate.html Quantum �鶹��Ժics Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:49:38 EST news651491375 A new computational method can identify how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time in dynamic real-life systems such as the brain. /news/2024-11-method-effect-relationships-ebb.html General �鶹��Ժics Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:03:44 EST news650649818 Chemists have synthesized a highly complex natural molecule through a new strategy of functionalizing normally inert carbon-hydrogen (C-H). The journal Science has published the breakthrough. Led by chemists at Emory University and Caltech, the work is the most dramatic example yet of a sequence of C-H functionalization reactions selectively transforming low-cost materials into complex building blocks of organic chemistry. /news/2024-11-chemists-showcase-power-pathbreaking-method.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:04:55 EST news650286288 Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and the world's fastest supercomputers, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has developed an innovative computing framework to speed up the design of new proteins. /news/2024-11-ai-framework-incorporates-experimental-text.html Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:56:13 EST news650127365 A recent collaboration among researchers from HUN-REN Wigner Research Center for �鶹��Ժics in Hungary and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, along with industry collaborators SandboxAQ and NVIDIA, has achieved unprecedented speed and performance in efforts to model complex metal-containing molecules. /news/2024-10-advanced-graphics-unprecedented-electronic.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:43:35 EDT news649500210 Atmospheric blocking events are persistent, high-impact weather patterns that occur when large-scale high-pressure systems become stationary and divert the jet stream and storm tracks for days to weeks, and can be associated with record-breaking flooding or heat waves, such as in Europe in 2023. /news/2024-10-deep-illuminates-future-atmospheric-blocking.html Environment Wed, 16 Oct 2024 17:19:03 EDT news648317941 DNA—the molecule that carries the genetic information of all living organisms—is packaged within cells in a complex manner that allows it to function efficiently. Nucleosomes facilitate DNA compaction and also play a crucial role in regulating gene expression and other biological processes. /news/2024-10-advanced-gene-architecture-nucleosome-position.html Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:21:03 EDT news647799662 Industrial electrochemical processes that use electrodes to produce fuels and chemical products are hampered by the formation of bubbles that block parts of the electrode surface, reducing the area available for the active reaction. Such blockage reduces the performance of the electrodes by anywhere from 10 to 25%. /news/2024-10-insights-electrode.html Nanomaterials Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:27:31 EDT news647612843