/ 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. Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C, outperforming all other materials used for extreme-temperature applications. This breakthrough could be used for heat shields on hypersonic vehicles and spacecraft during re-entry into the atmosphere and in other high-temperature environments. /news/2025-09-breakthrough-carbon-nanotube-material-thermal.html Nanomaterials Sat, 06 Sep 2025 08:30:01 EDT news676297062 The movement of genetic material between organisms that aren't directly related is a significant driver of evolution, especially among single-celled organisms like bacteria and archaea. A team led by researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have now estimated that an average cell line acquires and retains roughly 13% of its genes every million years via this process of lateral gene transfer. That equates to about 250 genes swapped per liter of seawater every day. /news/2025-09-quantify-essential-evolutionary-ocean.html Evolution Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 06 Sep 2025 06:20:01 EDT news676358182 Chemists at the University of Copenhagen have developed a method to convert plastic waste into a climate solution for efficient and sustainable CO2 capture. This is killing two birds with one stone as they address two of the world's biggest challenges: plastic pollution and the climate crisis. /news/2025-09-scientists-plastic-efficient-capture-materials.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:00:06 EDT news676202581 Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State's University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Â鶹ÒùÔºics, became the first person to "see" an atom. In doing so, Müller cemented his legacy, not only at Penn State, but also as a pioneer in the world of physics and beyond. /news/2025-09-atoms-ja-physics-key-microscopy.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:50:01 EDT news676297442 Imagine a clock that doesn't have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that are in your phone display, to create such a clock—or, at least, as close as humans can get to that idea. The team's advancement is a new example of a "time crystal." That's the name for a curious phase of matter in which the pieces, such as atoms or other particles, exist in constant motion. /news/2025-09-physicists-kind-crystal-humans.html Condensed Matter Soft Matter Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:30:05 EDT news676297428 Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being explored for a range of critical applications in biomedicine, electronics, nanodevices, energy storage and other areas, especially to enhance performance in extreme environments and ultra-demanding conditions. /news/2025-09-2d-nanomaterials-metals-extreme-conditions.html Nanomaterials Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:19:04 EDT news676297138 Organ donors can save lives, for example, those of patients with kidney failure. Unfortunately, there are too few donors, and the waiting lists are long. 3D bioprinting of (parts of) organs may offer a solution to this shortage in the future. But printing living tissues, bioprinting, is extremely complex and challenging. /news/2025-09-ai-printer-partner-tissue.html Biotechnology Health informatics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 12:17:05 EDT news676293421 Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar outflows and jets in the Milky Way's outer region. /news/2025-09-protostellar-jet-milky-outer-region.html Astronomy Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:18:04 EDT news676286281 Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. The observations reveal a prominent tail and glowing coma from this rare celestial visitor, while also providing new scientific measurements of its colors and composition. /news/2025-09-astronomers-students-capture-tail-interstellar.html Astronomy Planetary Sciences Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:09:41 EDT news676264174 Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and degrading worn-out or dysfunctional components. Serving as an essential housekeeping process, autophagy also plays a key role in strengthening immunity, mobilizing when cells encounter stressors such as starvation or infection to eliminate bacteria, viruses, and other threats. /news/2025-09-uncovering-cells-picky-eaters-team.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:07:04 EDT news676224421 Burning, blisters, pain: More than 40 million people worldwide are infected with the herpes virus every year. The virus can pose a serious threat to newborns and people with weakened immune systems. Researchers in Hamburg and Göttingen have now generated a mini-antibody that neutralizes a protein essential for the infection. The findings, published in Nature, hold the promise of new therapies to treat and prevent severe herpes infections in the near future. /news/2025-09-alpaca-generated-nanobody-neutralizes-protein.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:43:45 EDT news676219419 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Â鶹ÒùÔºics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring a new approach to producing food on demand with unconventional materials. Through the Feedstocks for Food Production (FFP) project, APL is investigating ways to grow edible microbial food by harnessing nonpotable water. /news/2025-09-provisions-pond-leverage-biomanufacturing-food.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:30:03 EDT news676214856 Ireland's first satellite, EIRSAT-1, has completed its mission orbiting Earth. The CubeSat, which was built and launched by students and faculty of University College Dublin (UCD), will de-orbit in a day or two. /news/2025-09-ireland-satellite-eirsat-mission.html Space Exploration Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:26:59 EDT news676214812 Solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) offer a route for efficient energy conversion and storage by converting renewable electricity into storable chemical fuels through high-temperature carbon dioxide electrolysis. However, sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at the anode poses a challenge due to its complex four-electron transfer process. /news/2025-09-state-tuning-perovskite-boosts-high.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:08:44 EDT news676210121 Since 1945, three-quarters of all global economic growth has been driven by technological advances. Since 1990, 90% of that advance has been rooted in fundamental science, according to Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University. /news/2025-09-reveals-glaring-gaps-australia-future.html Education Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:50:01 EDT news676205755 Abiotic organic synthesis during geological processes has long drawn scientific interest, as it is believed to have laid both the material and energetic groundwork for the emergence of early life on Earth. /news/2025-09-iron-laden-fluids-abiotic-synthesis.html Earth Sciences Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:10:04 EDT news676206145 Methane (CHâ‚„), the colorless and odorless gas that makes up most natural gas on Earth, has so far been converted into useful fuels and chemicals via energy-intensive processes that need to be carried out at high temperatures. Some energy researchers, however, have been exploring the possibility of transforming this gas into useful hydrocarbons and chemicals via photocatalysis. /news/2025-09-gold-tio-catalyst-enables-efficient.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:51:07 EDT news676205462 Materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented the world's first pollen-based sunscreen derived from Camellia flowers. /news/2025-09-cooling-pollen-sunscreen-block-uv.html Ecology Biotechnology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:28:04 EDT news676196881 Just one year after NREL materials science researchers Matthew Hautzinger and Sage Bauers met to exchange notes on underexplored materials in nanotechnology, their synthesis of promising Zintl-phase quantum dots is attracting attention with its bright photoluminescent glow, chemical stability, and Earth-abundant ingredients. /news/2025-09-built-brilliance-zintl-phase-quantum.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:14:04 EDT news676196041 In collaboration with other Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs), researchers at the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) are developing industrially feasible techniques for second-generation biofuel production from oilcane, an oil-rich variety of sugarcane, to help meet our growing societal demand for fuels. /news/2025-09-pretreatment-methods-gen-biofuels-oilcane.html Biotechnology Agriculture Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:37:04 EDT news676190222 When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn't see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the size of half a football field. A high-efficiency production line designed not for electronics or auto parts—but for coral. /news/2025-09-shot-florida-reefs-industrial-factory.html Ecology Biotechnology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 06:35:37 EDT news676186527 A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above. /news/2025-09-tuberculosis-tanzanian-hero-rats-sniffing.html Plants & Animals Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:50:03 EDT news676179323 Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have unveiled new insights into the activity of catalysts used in green hydrogen production. /news/2025-09-key-transition-catalyst-kinetics-boost.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:19:31 EDT news676178364 Many attempts have been made to harness the power of new artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) to try to predict the outcomes of new chemical reactions. These have had limited success, in part because until now they have not been grounded in an understanding of fundamental physical principles, such as the laws of conservation of mass. /news/2025-09-generative-ai-approach-chemical-reactions.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:12:37 EDT news676177946 A research team has developed a novel direct sampling method based on deep generative models. Their method enables efficient sampling of the Boltzmann distribution across a continuous temperature range. The findings have been published in Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Letters. The team was led by Prof. Pan Ding, Associate Professor from the Departments of Â鶹ÒùÔºics and Chemistry, and Dr. Li Shuo-Hui, Research Assistant Professor from the Department of Â鶹ÒùÔºics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). /news/2025-09-deep-method-enables-efficient-boltzmann.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Condensed Matter Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:20:03 EDT news676135202 Researchers have developed a powerful tool capable of scanning thousands of biological samples to detect transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) modifications—tiny chemical changes to RNA molecules that help control how cells grow, adapt to stress and respond to diseases such as cancer and antibiotic‑resistant infections. This tool opens up new possibilities for science, health care and industry—from accelerating disease research and enabling more precise diagnostics, to guiding the development of more effective medical treatments for diseases such as cancer and antibiotic‑resistant infections. /news/2025-09-automated-tool-enables-rapid-large.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:15:04 EDT news676134901 Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data inherently "noisy." Rice University computer scientists have developed algorithms that account for noise that is not just random but malicious. Their work could help make quantum computers more accurate and dependable. /news/2025-09-algorithms-malicious-noise-result-accurate.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:24:04 EDT news676131841 Billions upon billions of soot particles enter Earth's atmosphere each second, totaling about 5.8 million metric tons a year—posing a climate-warming impact previously estimated at almost one-third that of carbon dioxide. /news/2025-09-soot-climate-properties-hours-atmosphere.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:25:04 EDT news676124701 Traditional polymers such as plastics are widely utilized for their chemical inertness and durability. However, these very properties make them non-degradable in nature and cause long-term environmental damage due to their persistence. /news/2025-09-explore-strategies-environmentally-safe-polymer.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:09:04 EDT news676123741 Triple-negative breast cancer is particularly aggressive and difficult to treat; but recent research may offer a new way to target the often-deadly disease. /news/2025-09-sugar-coated-nanoparticles-deadly-breast.html Bio & Medicine Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:29:04 EDT news676121342