/ 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. Some of the most encouraging results for reaction-enhancing catalysts come from one material in particular: tin (Sn). While Sn's overall utility as a catalyst is well-known, its underlying structure-performance relationship is poorly understood, which limits our ability to maximize its potential. /news/2025-07-machine-ph-tin-catalysts.html Materials Science Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:10:01 EDT news670828074 Green art conservation methods developed by EU researchers are setting new standards and proving useful far beyond museums, from cosmetics to agriculture. /news/2025-07-masterpieces-makeup-eco-friendly-art.html Materials Science Other Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:45:05 EDT news670776302 Managing radioactive waste is one of the core challenges in the use of nuclear energy. In particular, radioactive iodine poses serious environmental and health risks due to its long half-life (15.7 million years in the case of I-129), high mobility, and toxicity to living organisms. /news/2025-07-ai-optimal-material-radioactive-iodine.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:47:04 EDT news670772822 Cell sheet preparation for use in tissue engineering and regenerative therapies could be significantly improved with the use of thermo-responsive polymer brushes, adjusted in length and density according to specific cell types. /news/2025-07-cell-sheet-production-efficiency-greatly.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:23:04 EDT news670767782 Many modern devices—from cellphones and computers to electric vehicles and wind turbines—rely on strong magnets made from types of minerals called rare earths. As the systems and infrastructure used in daily life have turned digital and the United States has moved toward renewable energy, accessing these minerals has become critical—and the markets for these elements have grown rapidly. /news/2025-07-glass-steel-rare-earth-metals.html Materials Science Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:53:05 EDT news670762381 New results published in the journal Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the normally equal balance between thermal absorption and emission, enabling the material to better emit infrared light than absorb it. /news/2025-07-material-emits-infrared-absorbs-violating.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Condensed Matter Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:20:01 EDT news670759222 Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant strides in the fields of inflammation, cancer, developmental biology and biomedical materials, among others. /news/2025-07-ireland-biobrillouin-microscope-enable-invasive.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:00:05 EDT news670757461 Companies building next-generation products and breakthrough technologies are often limited by the physical constraints of traditional materials. In aerospace, defense, energy, and industrial tooling, pushing those constraints introduces possible failure points into the system, but companies don't have better options, given that producing new materials at scale involves multiyear timelines and huge expenses. /news/2025-07-platform-advanced-metals-scale.html Materials Science Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:47:00 EDT news670751214 An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, a metal critical for clean energy technologies and global infrastructure. /news/2025-07-geological-mystery-unearths-copper-deposits.html Earth Sciences Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:42:03 EDT news670750921 Researchers from the Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology (APM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found that water can activate previously "NMR-invisible" aluminum in ultra-stable Y (USY) zeolite, a critical material in catalysis. /news/2025-07-hidden-aluminum-sites-zeolite-catalysis.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:37:03 EDT news670750621 Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging between 0.1 and 10 THz, could be leveraged to develop various new technologies, including imaging and communication systems. So far, however, a lack of fast and sensitive detectors that can detect radiation across a wide range of frequencies has limited the development of these THz-sensing technologies. /news/2025-07-tairte-photodetectors-highly-sensitive-room.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 03 Jul 2025 07:50:07 EDT news670648980 For the first time, an international team of scientists has experimentally simulated spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) at zero temperature using a superconducting quantum processor. This achievement, which was accomplished with over 80% fidelity, represents a milestone for quantum computing and condensed matter physics. /news/2025-07-quantum-simulates-spontaneous-symmetry-temperature.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:17:04 EDT news670691821 Enzymatic recycling has gained traction in recent years as a greener alternative to traditional plastic recycling techniques, which often rely on energy-intensive mechanical or chemical processes. Enzymes can selectively break down polymers like PET—commonly found in bottles and food packaging—into their basic building blocks. /news/2025-07-protein-based-enzyme-reuse-plastic.html Biochemistry Polymers Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:12:36 EDT news670687950 If humans are ever going to live beyond Earth, they'll need to construct habitats. But transporting enough industrial material to create livable spaces would be incredibly challenging and expensive. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) think there's a better way, through biology. /news/2025-07-bioplastic-algae-growth-mars-conditions.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:00:16 EDT news670655882 Methane (CH4) pyrolysis, a reaction that produces hydrogen without emitting carbon dioxide, often utilizes molten media catalysts. A recent research paper published in the journal ACS Catalysis has explored how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping scientists identify these catalysts more efficiently. /news/2025-07-driven-strategies-advance-methane-pyrolysis.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:38:27 EDT news670678701 In a review just published in Nature Materials, researchers take aim at the oldest principle in electronics: Ohm's law. /news/2025-07-ohm-law-nonlinear-currents-emerge.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:09:03 EDT news670676942 Proteins are the infinitely varied chemicals that make cells work, and science has a pretty good idea how they are made. But a critical aspect underlying the machinery of protein manufacture has long been hidden inside the nucleolus. /news/2025-07-artificial-nucleolus-reveals-ribosome.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:27 EDT news670656302 Tiny sensors, similar to breathalyzers, could "sniff out" bacterial infections and detect antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in bodily fluids, says a team of engineers, microbiologists, and machine learning experts in an opinion paper published in Cell Biomaterials. Developing this technology could provide affordable and rapid diagnostic tests, which would improve treatment plans and help combat antibiotic resistance. /news/2025-07-chemical-sensors-breathalyzers-antibiotic-resistance.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:18 EDT news670605074 A new study led by Colorado State University Distinguished Professor Eugene Chen outlines a path to creating advanced, recyclable plastics. Published in Nature, the study describes a breakthrough method for upconverting a natural polymer that is usually made by microorganisms into a wide range of new and more sustainable high-performance materials as well as valuable chiral small molecules for organic and polymer synthesis. /news/2025-07-catalytic-natural-polymer-customizable-biodegradable.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:00:12 EDT news670600082 Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it encompasses both the intrinsic spin of particles and their orbital motion around a point. These properties are essential for understanding a wide range of systems, from atoms and molecules to complex materials and high-energy particle interactions. /news/2025-07-strong-magnetic-fields-flip-angular.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:08:03 EDT news670669681 Analytical chemistry researchers at the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have developed a novel algorithm that significantly improves the analysis of copolymers. It allows the determination of their block structure, which has until now been impossible using common analytical approaches. The researchers present their achievement in two recent papers in Macromolecules and Analytica Chimica Acta. /news/2025-07-algorithm-unprecedented-insight-copolymer-block.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 02 Jul 2025 10:00:03 EDT news670669201 EPFL scientists have developed a new technique that lets researchers watch, with unprecedented sensitivity, how materials emit polarized light over time. /news/2025-07-imaging-technique-captures-polarized.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:13:10 EDT news670666387 Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning electron-level information without requiring costly quantum mechanical calculations. The research was presented at ICLR 2025. /news/2025-07-ai-material-properties-electron-quantum.html Condensed Matter Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:12:20 EDT news670666332 If you've ever consumed food made with olive oil, there's a good chance you've unknowingly ingested materials capable of producing lasers. Researchers have recently demonstrated edible microlasers—tiny lasers made entirely from food-safe materials—that can be used for food monitoring, product authentication and tagging. These edible microlasers are composed of droplets of oil or water–glycerol mixtures doped with natural optical gain substances, such as chlorophyll (the green pigment in leaves) or riboflavin (vitamin B2). /news/2025-07-edible-microlasers-food-safe-materials.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:12:10 EDT news670666326 Operando X-ray spectroscopy is a powerful tool for probing electrocatalyst dynamics—but intense X-ray exposure can distort structural insights. A recent article reveals flux- and dose-dependent artifact thresholds and proposes practical protocols to ensure accurate, artifact-free measurements. /news/2025-07-reliable-probing-electrocatalysts-ray-artifacts.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:33:09 EDT news670660387 Operators have pumped water to cool the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) since the accident in 2011 and treated this cooling water with the Advanced Liquid Processing System (ALPS), which is a state-of-the-art purification system that removes radioactive materials, except tritium. /news/2025-07-ocean-simulations-term-tritium-fukushima.html Environment Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:00:01 EDT news670601821 Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low-cost, easy-to-use, and rapid tests performed at the site of patient care. 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Woese Institute for Genomic Biology reported new and optimized techniques to develop better biosensors for the early detection of disease biomarkers. /news/2025-07-nanoscale-advance-biosensing.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:52:04 EDT news670611122 Plant scientists have used a standard "gene gun" since 1988 to genetically modify crops for better yield, nutrition, pest resistance and other valuable traits. /news/2025-07-gene-gun-boosts-efficiency-genetic.html Plants & Animals Agriculture Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:00:02 EDT news670604324 A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilizations have treasured—and been intrinsically linked to—safe, clean water. /news/2025-07-roman-ancient-filters-artifacts-solutions.html Environment Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:20:02 EDT news670594870 Researchers at the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz IPHT) in Jena, Germany, together with international collaborators, have developed two complementary methods that could make quantum communication via fiber optics practical outside the lab. /news/2025-07-photon-bins-stability-quantum-communication.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:02:21 EDT news670593734