/ 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. With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in Science Advances, sheds new light on how Earth's surface evolves and raises fresh questions about future earthquake risks in the Pacific Northwest. /news/2025-10-earth-crust-pacific-northwest-necessarily.html Earth Sciences Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:55:05 EDT news678527701 In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but vast, separate rings composed of countless nested arcs. /news/2025-09-simulations-saturn-moon-enceladus-ice.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:52:04 EDT news678466322 The amino acid glycine is an important neurotransmitter that regulates memory, reflex, and brain development, and it may also be a biomarker for bacterial virulence. Of the 20 standard amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, glycine is the simplest, the only one lacking a side chain extending from its backbone. /news/2025-09-golden-broccoli-aptamer-enables-glycine.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:04:04 EDT news678452641 What do magnets, smartphones and medical imaging devices have in common? They all depend on rare earth elements called lanthanides, which are vital for modern technology. Yet, separating these chemically similar elements from one another has long been one of chemistry's toughest puzzles. /news/2025-09-scientists-reveal-molecular-choreography-lanthanide.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:20:04 EDT news678449706 When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the James Webb Space Telescope. /news/2025-09-tiny-satellite-tracks-star-collisions.html Astronomy Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:30:06 EDT news678446925 For centuries, people have described strange blue balls of light floating around in marshes, wetlands, and even cemeteries. It's no surprise that these mysterious flames, termed "will-o'-the-wisps" or ignis fatuus, have spurred countless ghostly explanations, but even the more scientific theories were speculative in nature and lacked experimental support. /news/2025-09-microlightning-sought-explanation-wisps.html Earth Sciences Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:30:01 EDT news678446905 Our Milky Way galaxy never sits still: it rotates and wobbles. And now, data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope reveal that our galaxy also has a giant wave rippling outwards from its center. /news/2025-09-gaia-telescope-galaxy-great.html Astronomy Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:57:23 EDT news678445038 A recent study offers proof of feasibility for using cosmic radiation detectors to discover underground spaces. The detectors identify muons—particles created when cosmic radiation collides with Earth's atmosphere, which penetrate the ground before losing their energy and coming to a stop. Thus, by detecting muons, archaeologists can map hidden voids such as tunnels and channels. /news/2025-09-underground-spaces-muon-technology-3d.html Archaeology Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:10:06 EDT news678380785 To explore possible treatments for various diseases, either animal models or human cell cultures are usually used first; however, animal models do not always mimic human diseases well, and cultures are far removed from tissue complexity. Advances in 3D printing, together with knowledge of biomaterials, are making it possible to recreate complex 3D tissue models in the laboratory. /news/2025-09-3d-bioprinting-advances-enable-creation.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:20:01 EDT news678377594 Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the benefits of Earth-based instruments. /news/2025-09-sharper-algorithm-stars-greater-focus.html Astronomy Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:12:54 EDT news678377564 Slices from the edge of Mars reveal a layered atmosphere of delicate complexity. A European spacecraft has captured a luminous mille-feuille of dust enveloping the red planet in unprecedented detail. /news/2025-09-mars-atmospheric-mille-feuille-high.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:39:04 EDT news678371942 Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are experts in nuclear forensics: the art and science of extracting information about the provenance and history of nuclear materials. Now, they have a new technique to add to their toolkit. /news/2025-09-ray-technique-tool-nuclear-forensics.html Materials Science Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:16:03 EDT news678370562 The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first light in August with observations of the binary star system Eta Carinae, along with 13 other targets. SOAR is part of U.S. National Science Foundation Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of NSF NOIRLab. /news/2025-09-instrument-soar-remarkable-binary-star.html Astronomy Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:50:04 EDT news678368907 The terahertz (THz) band of the electromagnetic spectrum holds immense promise for next-generation technologies, including high-speed wireless communication, advanced encryption, and medical imaging. However, manipulating THz waves has long been a technical challenge, since these frequencies interact weakly with most natural materials. /news/2025-09-electrically-tunable-metasurface-real-thz.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:21:04 EDT news678367261 Venus is often called Earth's "sister planet" because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky worlds that formed about the same time in the inner solar system; however, despite these similarities, Venus evolved into a world vastly different from Earth, with surface temperatures around 465°C, crushing atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than Earth's and thick clouds containing sulfuric acid circling the planet. These dramatic differences between two such similar planets make Venus a fascinating subject for planetary scientists to study. /news/2025-09-scientists-evidence-lava-tubes-venus.html Planetary Sciences Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:32:03 EDT news678364321 When we think about the impact of climate change on the economy, images of droughts in Africa or hurricanes in the Caribbean might come to mind. But even in advanced economies such as the UK, hotter summers are being shown to carry a heavy price. /news/2025-09-hotter-summers-bad-uk-economy.html Economics & Business Sun, 28 Sep 2025 11:00:02 EDT news678095915 One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the known universe. /news/2025-09-physicists-quantum-bit-capable.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:50:01 EDT news678095146 Many applications—from drug discovery and diagnostics to cell engineering and gene modulation—require delivering biomolecules into large numbers of cells and rapidly evaluating the outcomes. The challenge is two-fold: achieve intracellular delivery at scale across diverse cells and cargoes, and obtain quantitative results fast enough to keep pace with that delivery. /news/2025-09-parallel-microdevice-ai-powered-cell.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:14:01 EDT news678176025 Scientists have sought to capture the first days of how a person comes to be, by recreating those early moments in a lab via models made up of induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs. /news/2025-09-ai-reveals-hidden-features-embryo.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:57:04 EDT news678106622 In an archaeological achievement, researchers from Kumamoto University have successfully reconstructed the structure of prehistoric fishing nets from the Jomon period (ca. 14,000–900 BCE) by analyzing impressions preserved in ancient pottery using advanced X-ray computed tomography (CT). This marks the first time in the world that nets from over 6,000 years ago have been digitally and physically resurrected in such detail. The research is published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. /news/2025-09-ancient-fishing-nets-resurrected-pottery.html Archaeology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:39:03 EDT news678101942 Researchers led by Professor Yi-Tsu Chan at National Taiwan University have created a giant molecular cage that mimics nature's nested structures. This layered nanocage is remarkably stable and can serve as a miniature reactor for producing gold nanoparticles. /news/2025-09-nature-nanocage-gold-nanoparticle-reactor.html Nanomaterials Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:19:03 EDT news678100741 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 A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. /news/2025-09-million-year-skull-human-evolution.html Evolution Paleontology & Fossils Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:56:24 EDT news678081354 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 The rise in tree mortality is troubling for local forest ecosystems. As a global phenomenon, however, it has a significant social impact that remains poorly understood. /news/2025-09-trees-dying-alarming.html Ecology Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:40:01 EDT news678022504 Humans have been making metal alloys for thousands of years, and most of us can conjure a rough mental image of the process—it involves red-hot molten metals being mixed, poured, and shaped in a sweltering workshop or factory. This approach still works perfectly well for the traditional metals we see every day, like steel. But advanced metals with special chemical and mechanical properties, ones that scientists are investigating to use in energy technologies like long-lasting batteries and extreme-temperature engines for aerospace vehicles, need a more refined approach. /news/2025-09-electron-microscopy-reveals-method-exotic.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:39:05 EDT news677943542 Â鶹ÒùÔºicists in Australia and Britain have reshaped quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle—a result that could underpin future ultra-precise sensor technology used in navigation, medicine and astronomy. /news/2025-09-scientists-sidestep-heisenberg-uncertainty-principle.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:00:03 EDT news677779261 The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Compact Coronagraph-2 (CCOR-2) launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT on September 24 onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory from NASA—Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida. /news/2025-09-ccor-coronagraph-boost-space-weather.html Planetary Sciences Wed, 24 Sep 2025 12:11:05 EDT news677934662 A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure—previously unknown in any organism—within Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium associated with a major global citrus pest. This discovery, made using advanced microscopy, may lead to breakthroughs in both pest control and the study of life's evolution. /news/2025-09-scientists-enigmatic-tubular-citrus-pest.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:57:04 EDT news677930222 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