/ 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. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have developed a novel 3D printing technique that uses light to build complex structures, then cleanly dissolves the support material, expanding possibilities in multi-material additive manufacturing (AM). /news/2025-06-team-tackles-bottlenecks-dual-wavelength.html Materials Science Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:40:01 EDT news669983605 Scientists have created tiny disk-shaped particles that can swim on their own when hit with light, akin to microscopic robots that move through a special liquid without any external motors or propellers. /news/2025-06-powered-microscopic-swimmers-onoff-pathways.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:25:35 EDT news670253120 What was life like some 8,000–9,000 years ago for the people on the East Mound at Çatalhöyük, an important Neolithic settlement in central Anatolia? And what role did women hold in their society? /news/2025-06-dna-analysis-matriarchal-society-neolithic.html Archaeology Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:25:09 EDT news670253103 Effective and noninvasive whale and biodiversity monitoring is now possible with the help of citizen scientists, opening up new opportunities for marine conservation. Water samples collected during whale-watching tours contain enough whale DNA to yield detailed information about the animals sighted using molecular methods. However, as two independently published papers show, samples must be collected promptly and specific protocols must be followed. /news/2025-06-samples-whale-enable-noninvasive-population.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:12:04 EDT news670252321 Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms. But researchers are interested in them for quite different reasons: Among the countless minerals already known, they always discover some materials with unusual magnetic properties. /news/2025-06-magnetic-frustration-atacamite-triggers-cooling.html Condensed Matter Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:12:03 EDT news670248721 Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn't belong in beer. Now they've got the research to upend that ancient bit of brewing snobbery. /news/2025-06-rice-rebels-reveals-grain-brewing.html Cell & Microbiology Agriculture Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:04:06 EDT news670248241 By examining squid skin cells three-dimensionally, a University of California, Irvine–led team has unveiled the structures responsible for the creatures' ability to dynamically change their appearance from transparent to arbitrarily colored states. /news/2025-06-scientists-uncover-cell-squids.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:54:03 EDT news670240441 Researchers from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering are the first to demonstrate a simple and tunable method for realizing asymmetric couplings in integrated photonics. Their findings, published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters and selected as an Editor's Pick, provide insight into topological physics while introducing a new approach for optical non-reciprocity and photonic gyration. /news/2025-06-giant-photonic-isolation-gyration.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 27 Jun 2025 09:19:03 EDT news670234741 Superconductivity is an advantageous physical phenomenon observed in some materials, which entails an electrical resistance of zero below specific critical temperatures. This phenomenon is known to arise following the formation of so-called Cooper pairs (i.e., pairs of electrons). /news/2025-06-trilayer-graphene-high-kinetic-inductance.html Condensed Matter Superconductivity Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:00:01 EDT news670148101 A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal's front cover this month, has uncovered insights into the tiny structures that could take solar energy to the next level. /news/2025-06-nanodomains-key-generation-solar-cells.html Nanomaterials Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:20:02 EDT news670173330 After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to squeeze even more science out of the busy spacecraft as it circles the Red Planet. Engineers have essentially taught the probe to roll over so that it's nearly upside down. Doing so enables MRO to look deeper underground as it searches for liquid and frozen water, among other things. /news/2025-06-science-mars-orbiter-years-space.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:48:59 EDT news670171725 Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. /news/2025-06-canadian-oldest-earth.html Earth Sciences Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:15:43 EDT news670169699 The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent across Anatolia and into the Aegean has been hotly debated. A Turkish-Swiss team offers important new insights, by combining archaeology and genetics in an innovative way. /news/2025-06-combining-archaeology-genetics-ideas-people.html Archaeology Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:03:27 EDT news670169001 When phones or computers are recycled, small amounts of important materials get discarded. Those minute amounts of cobalt, nickel and lithium add up quickly, and separating and recovering these "critical materials" for reuse is a dirty, energy intensive job. /news/2025-06-ferritin-protein-critical-metals-electronic.html Materials Science Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:23:54 EDT news670163028 An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in Poland decades ago may be the oldest one ever reported. In their study published on the open-access site PLOS One, the group analyzed artifacts found near the boomerang to learn more about its age. /news/2025-06-boomerang-poland-oldest.html Archaeology Thu, 26 Jun 2025 13:17:23 EDT news670162580 A luxurious fiber once reserved exclusively for emperors in ancient times has been brought back to life by Korean researchers. A team led by Professor Dong Soo Hwang and Professor Jimin Choi has successfully recreated a golden fiber, akin to that of 2,000 years ago, using the pen shell (Atrina pectinata) cultivated in Korean coastal waters. /news/2025-06-scientists-revive-legendary-golden-sea.html Biochemistry Materials Science Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:39:14 EDT news670160348 A team of international scientists headed by Prof. Marco Salvalaglio from TUD–Dresden University of Technology has found out that internal stresses—not just interface energy—play a key role in shaping the microstructure of crystalline materials. These findings challenge classical theories and could improve how we design materials for engineering and technology. The results have recently been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. /news/2025-06-simulations-grains-metals-ceramics.html Materials Science Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:38:22 EDT news670160299 Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in Small, on how short peptides self-assemble linearly on atomically-thick solid surfaces, such as graphite and MoS2. /news/2025-06-hydration-layers-nanoarchitectures-pivotal-role.html Nanomaterials Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:04:47 EDT news670154683 Nanoparticles (NPs) are materials whose dimensions range from 1 to 1,000 nanometers (nm). Due to their nano-scale dimensions and tunable material properties, NPs have gained interest in the global scientific community in recent years. Applications of NPs in the field of human health include NP-based drug delivery systems and radioactive probe-linked NPs for medical diagnosis. While significant advancements have been achieved in the design and synthesis of NPs, studies investigating the interactions of NPs with important biological macromolecules like proteins remain limited. /news/2025-06-proteins-silica-nanoparticle-interactions-biophysics.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:00:03 EDT news670148642 Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have demonstrated a new approach to understanding the diet of newly hatched American lobsters, opening doors for better understanding the role they play in the Gulf of Maine's ecosystem. /news/2025-06-methods-complement-revealing-diet-larval.html Ecology Biotechnology Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:16:10 EDT news670148165 An international team of astronomers has employed various satellites and ground-based telescopes to perform multiwavelength observations of a supernova remnant known as SNR J0450.4−7050. Results of the observational campaign, published June 18 on the pre-print server arXiv, yield new insights into the properties of this remnant, finding that it is much larger than previously thought. /news/2025-06-supernova-remnant-snr-j045047050.html Astronomy Thu, 26 Jun 2025 08:00:01 EDT news670138172 Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense laser pulses in a single measurement. The breakthrough, published in close collaboration with Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, could revolutionize our ability to control light-matter interactions. /news/2025-06-scientists-technique-capturing-ultra-intense.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 26 Jun 2025 05:00:02 EDT news670068479 On June 3, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover ground down a portion of a rock surface, blew away the resulting debris, and then went to work studying its pristine interior with a suite of instruments designed to determine its mineralogic makeup and geologic origin. "Kenmore," as nicknamed by the rover science team, is the 30th Martian rock that Perseverance has subjected to such in-depth scrutiny, beginning with drilling a two-inch-wide (5-centimeter-wide) abrasion patch. /news/2025-06-nasa-perseverance-rover-scours-martian.html Planetary Sciences Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:08:38 EDT news670086512 Caltech professor of chemistry Sandeep Sharma and colleagues from IBM and the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan are giving us a glimpse of the future of computing. The team has used quantum computing in combination with classical distributed computing to attack a notably challenging problem in quantum chemistry: determining the electronic energy levels of a relatively complex molecule. /news/2025-06-hybrid-quantumclassical-approach-chemical.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 25 Jun 2025 15:21:28 EDT news670083686 Understanding how molecular arrangements within crystals influence their thermal behavior is a fundamental question in solid-state chemistry. This topic is especially relevant in pharmaceuticals existing as enantiomers, molecules in two forms that are mirror images of one another but cannot be superimposed, which can exhibit distinct physical and chemical properties depending on their crystalline form. /news/2025-06-decoding-thermal-behavior-crystals-insights.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:22:53 EDT news670080163 In the Andes, the rise of agriculture to replace foraging was not the result of hardship and resource scarcity, but instead a time of economic resilience and innovation, according to a study published in PLOS One by Luis Flores-Blanco of the University of California Davis and Arizona State University, U.S., and colleagues. /news/2025-06-diet-analysis-early-farmers-andes.html Archaeology Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:00:11 EDT news670063021 Researchers at ETH Zurich are developing a model in the lab made from human breast milk cells. They hope it will help them understand how breast milk is made—a little-researched area of female biology. /news/2025-06-breast-tissue-lab-lactation.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:06:03 EDT news670071961 In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past half-billion years of Earth's history. /news/2025-06-marine-biomass-million-years.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:00:18 EDT news669976890 Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have produced fertile adult mice from embryos constructed entirely with male genetic material. Mice carrying only paternal DNA developed into fertile adults following precision editing of seven imprinting control regions, revealing genomic imprinting as a core barrier to uniparental mammalian development. /news/2025-06-mice-born-dads-reveal-hidden.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:20:03 EDT news670065510 A research team has synthesized three-dimensionally shaped molecules containing an internal twist and shown that they possess the properties of organic semiconductors. By introducing methyl groups into a planar molecule containing several thiophene units and forcing it into a twisted conformation, the team created a solid-state structure in which electricity can flow three-dimensionally. /news/2025-06-molecules-strategy-semiconductor-materials.html Nanomaterials Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:49:03 EDT news670060141