/ 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. A research team led by SUTD has created nanoscale glass structures with near-perfect reflectance, overturning long-held assumptions about what low-index materials can do in photonics. /news/2025-06-glass-nanostructures-visible-photonics-assumptions.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:12:04 EDT news669906721 Volcanic islands, such as the islands of Hawaii and the Caribbean, are surrounded by coral reefs that encircle an island in a labyrinthine, living ring. A coral reef is punctured at points by reef passes—wide channels that cut through the coral and serve as conduits for ocean water and nutrients to filter in and out. These watery passageways provide circulation throughout a reef, helping to maintain the health of corals by flushing out freshwater and transporting key nutrients. /news/2025-06-island-rivers-passageways-coral-reefs.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:28:04 EDT news669637681 A research team from Penn State has broken a 165-year-old law of thermal radiation with unprecedented strength, setting the stage for more efficient energy harvesting, heat transfer and infrared sensing. /news/2025-06-rewriting-century-physics-law-thermal.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Optics & Photonics Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:03:04 EDT news669636181 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists Prof. Dr. Ingo Rehberg from the University of Bayreuth and Dr. Peter Blümler from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have developed and experimentally validated an innovative approach for generating homogeneous magnetic fields using permanent magnets. /news/2025-06-permanent-magnet-configurations-outperform-classical.html Condensed Matter Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:31:04 EDT news669547861 A research team including members from the University of Michigan have unveiled a new observational technique that's sensitive to the dynamics of the intrinsic quantum jiggles of materials, or phonons. /news/2025-06-electron-microscopy-technique-captures-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:19:04 EDT news669485941 Researchers led by a team at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to create tiny droplets of one liquid inside another liquid without mixing the two together. /news/2025-06-liquid-programmable-droplets-potential-carbon.html Nanomaterials Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:33:32 EDT news669472409 As the number of particles in a physical system increases, its properties can change and different phase transitions (i.e., shifts into different phases of matter) can take place. Microscopic systems (i.e., containing only a few particles) and macroscopic ones (i.e., containing many particles) are thus typically very different, even if the types of particles they are made up of are the same. /news/2025-06-atom-tweezer-arrays-reveal-phase.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:00:02 EDT news669383357 How do we know exactly what is happening at a molecular level during extremely fast processes, such as burning during combustion? In less than the blink of an eye, one chemical compound and then another are present in a flame only to disperse and give way to more. Understanding which molecules are present gives scientists a way of understanding the inner workings of the chemical processes taking place. /news/2025-06-snap-science-molecular.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:23:04 EDT news669385381 Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments sensitive to gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation will lead to scientific breakthroughs in fundamental physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, a new study reveals. /news/2025-06-mysteries-universe-multi-messenger-gravitational.html Astronomy Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:35:04 EDT news668957702 Researchers have determined how to use magnons—collective vibrations of the magnetic spins of atoms—for next-generation information technologies, including quantum technologies with magnetic systems. /news/2025-06-harnessing-magnons-quantum.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:59:38 EDT news668937572 Imagine being tasked with baking a soufflé, except the only instruction provided is an ingredient list without any measurements or temperatures. /news/2025-06-chemical-storm-fronts-framework-enables.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:14:04 EDT news668880841 In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used a cloud of atoms chilled down to incredibly cold temperatures to simultaneously measure acceleration in three dimensions—a feat that many scientists didn't think was possible. /news/2025-06-quantum-device-atoms-3d.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:18:04 EDT news668870281 A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for designing and creating universal diffractive waveguides that can control the flow of light in highly specific and complex ways. /news/2025-06-ai-waveguides-pave-generation-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:26:03 EDT news668679961 Cornell researchers have developed a new way to safely heat up specific areas inside the body by using biodegradable polymers that contain tiny water pockets, which are then activated by near-infrared laser. The technology could lead to precise and noninvasive diagnostics and therapeutics, perhaps to fight cancer. /news/2025-06-tiny-biodegradable-polymers-precisely-diseased.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:04:46 EDT news668347478 An international research collaboration featuring scientists from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has discovered a fundamental universal principle that governs how microscopic whirlpools interact, collide and transform within quantum fluids, which also has implications for understanding fluids that behave according to classical physics. /news/2025-06-universal-law-quantum-vortex-dynamics.html Soft Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:47:04 EDT news668267221 The sediments underlying the Salt Lake Valley are thicker in places than previously thought, indicating that current seismic hazard models likely underestimate the amount of shaking Utah's population center could experience in future earthquakes, according to new research led by University of Utah seismologists. /news/2025-06-thicker-sediments-salt-lake-result.html Earth Sciences Wed, 04 Jun 2025 07:11:04 EDT news668239862 A joint research team has successfully developed a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material platform through the superposition of moiré lattices. /news/2025-06-overlapping-moir-lattices-2d-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:39:05 EDT news668169541 In September 2023, a bizarre global seismic signal was observed which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days—and was then repeated a month later. Almost a year later, two scientific studies proposed that the cause of these seismic anomalies were two mega tsunamis which were triggered in a remote East Greenland fjord by two major landslides which occurred due to warming of an unnamed glacier. /news/2025-06-greenland-mega-tsunamis-shook-world.html Earth Sciences Tue, 03 Jun 2025 05:00:01 EDT news668075162 Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of California, Santa Barbara, engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe. /news/2025-06-laser-smaller-penny-ultrafast.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:07:03 EDT news668074021 Turbulence in nature refers to the complex, time-dependent, and spatially varying fluctuations that develop in fluids such as water, air, and plasma. It is a universal phenomenon that appears across a vast range of scales and systems—from atmospheric and oceanic currents on Earth, to interstellar gas in stars and galaxies, and even within jet engines and blood flow in human arteries. /news/2025-06-entropy-untangles-vortices-turbulent-plasmas.html Plasma Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 02 Jun 2025 08:55:05 EDT news668073302 In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between. /news/2025-05-astronomers-evidence-intermediate-mass-black.html Astronomy Fri, 30 May 2025 11:59:04 EDT news667825141 A research team has reported the successful synthesis of high-purity, tunable nitrogen (N)-substituted MAX precursors and the resultant MXene two-dimensional (2D) materials—a first in the world. /news/2025-05-mxene-exceptional-high-frequency-emi.html Nanomaterials Fri, 30 May 2025 08:44:03 EDT news667813441 Scientists at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland have developed a powerful new tool for finding the next generation of materials needed for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. /news/2025-05-quantum-visualization-technique-ute-intrinsic.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 29 May 2025 14:00:03 EDT news667660321 Cardiovascular disease and kidney disease are two of the most urgent issues in global public health. 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Previous studies may need to be re-evaluated in light of this finding. /news/2025-05-spontaneous-symmetry-electron-elusive.html Nanophysics Wed, 28 May 2025 08:36:08 EDT news667640166 Scientists have discovered a way to convert fluctuating lasers into remarkably stable beams that defy classical physics, opening new doors for photonic technologies that rely on both high power and high precision. /news/2025-05-technique-noisy-lasers-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 27 May 2025 14:47:04 EDT news667576022 Where did the moon's magnetism go? Scientists have puzzled over this question for decades, ever since orbiting spacecraft picked up signs of a high magnetic field in lunar surface rocks. The moon itself has no inherent magnetism today. /news/2025-05-moon-highly-magnetic-scientists.html Planetary Sciences Fri, 23 May 2025 14:00:02 EDT news667147141 Blue phosphorescent OLEDs can now last as long as the green phosphorescent OLEDs already in devices, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated, paving the way for further improving the energy efficiency of OLED screens. /news/2025-05-enables-blue-oleds-green-efficiency.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 23 May 2025 13:15:03 EDT news667224901 University of Illinois Â鶹ÒùÔºics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and optical loss from the sample are present. /news/2025-05-nanometer-scale-tool-exploits-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 22 May 2025 17:24:05 EDT news667153441