/ 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. Invasive plants are meeting their match. Driven by the desire to protect Missouri's ecosystems, a University of Missouri research team created a low-cost method to track the spread of invasive Callery pear trees in mid-Missouri—shedding light on where they are now and where they might be headed. /news/2025-07-tracking-invasive-pear-trees-ai.html Ecology Biotechnology Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:10:04 EDT news672409508 In 2023, a train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. In 2025, a series of destructive wildfires ravaged Los Angeles. In both cases, a toxic plume—a cloud of harmful airborne materials that disperse over time and space due to wind and turbulence—was released. /news/2025-07-deep-toxic-plume-movement-urban.html Environment Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:30:04 EDT news672409308 Loretta Mickley first started thinking about smoke in the summer of 2002. /news/2025-07-overlooked-climate-danger-wildfire.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:30:01 EDT news672386869 Afro-descendant peoples in four Amazon countries show remarkable achievements in environmental stewardship, according to new research from Conservation International, published in Nature Communications Earth and Environment. /news/2025-07-deforestation-afro-descendant-amazon-countries.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 22 Jul 2025 05:00:03 EDT news672299597 Imagine the concrete in our homes and bridges not only withstanding the ravages of time and natural disasters like the intense heat of wildfires, but actively self-healing or capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. /news/2025-07-ai-simulate-billions-atoms-simultaneously.html Materials Science Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:49:29 EDT news672335361 The mission team of NASA's Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian moon Io. Results from the long-distance save were presented during a technical session on July 16 at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference in Nashville. /news/2025-07-nasa-camera-million-miles.html Space Exploration Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:26:58 EDT news672334008 Bottles of tequila now command premium prices in trendy bars. On Instagram, celebrity-backed brands of the agave-based Mexican spirit jostle for attention. And debates over cultural appropriation and agave sustainability swirl alongside booming tourism in Jalisco, the western Mexican state that serves as the world's tequila distillation hub. /news/2025-07-filipino-sailors-dock-mexico-tequila.html Social Sciences Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:20:05 EDT news672320560 People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet. Scientists have reason to believe that some of the moons in our solar system—like Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus—may contain deep, salty liquid oceans under an icy shell. Seafloor volcanoes could heat these moons' oceans and provide the basic chemicals needed for life. /news/2025-07-microbes-deep-sea-volcanoes-scientists.html Cell & Microbiology Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:00:05 EDT news672320536 A few streams on the Cumberland Plateau northeast of Chattanooga are the only places where a small freshwater fish called the laurel dace lives in the wild, so when drought struck the Southeast last summer, the species faced the real possibility of extinction. /news/2025-07-endangered-minnow-rallies-conservationists-laurel.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:50:09 EDT news672316816 The trek across the North Sea island of Norderney—a barrier island in the German North Sea—is around five kilometers long. Designed by Lena Thissen, a researcher from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, together with a social scientist from the University of Hamburg, the "Freshwater Lens Walk" is all about a hidden treasure: the island's freshwater supply. /news/2025-07-climate-sea-rainfall-patterns-north.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:13:42 EDT news672308016 Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath east Africa, reshaping our understanding of how continents break apart. /news/2025-07-deep-pulses-beneath-africa-volcanic.html Earth Sciences Sun, 20 Jul 2025 10:50:02 EDT news672050814 Researchers from the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Aisin Corporation have demonstrated that universal scaling laws, which describe how the properties of a system change with size and scale, apply to deep neural networks that exhibit absorbing phase transition behavior, a phenomenon typically observed in physical systems. The discovery not only provides a framework describing deep neural networks but also helps predict their trainability or generalizability. The findings were published in the journal Â鶹ÒùÔºical Review Research. /news/2025-07-common-feature-forest-neural-networks.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:34:51 EDT news672057288 An international team led by Einstein Professor Cecilia Clementi in the Department of Â鶹ÒùÔºics at Freie Universität Berlin has introduced CGSchNet, a machine-learned coarse-grained (CG) model that can accurately and efficiently simulate proteins like never before. The study is published in the July 18, 2025, issue of Nature Chemistry. /news/2025-07-ai-powered-method-protein-simulations.html Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 18 Jul 2025 09:40:05 EDT news672050067 The age of artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed our interactions, but threatens human dignity on a worldwide scale, according to a study led by Charles Darwin University (CDU). /news/2025-07-ai-intelligent-dignity.html Social Sciences Political science Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:02:30 EDT news672044545 Beatriz Swanson can remember the first time she saw the blinking glow. She was 10 years old, growing up in Mexico, when two fireflies appeared in front of her, floating away before she could carefully capture them in her hands. /news/2025-07-swarms-fireflies-illinois-summer-enthusiasts.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:44:13 EDT news672043446 The use of social media is contributing to declining attention spans, emotional volatility, and compulsive behaviors among young people, according to a new report by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Singapore-based research agency Research Network, in collaboration with U.S.-based AI platform ListenLabs.ai. /news/2025-07-international-impact-social-media-young.html Social Sciences Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:10:01 EDT news671969027 Australia's love affair with avocados is undeniable—but our brunch habits are at the mercy of a finicky fruit. If you've ever wondered why the price of an avocado can swing wildly from one year to the next, the answer lies deep in the roots of the tree itself. /news/2025-07-avocado-prices-science-steady.html Agriculture Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:00:02 EDT news671963532 Where did Europe's distinct Uralic family of languages—which includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian—come from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought. /news/2025-07-ancient-dna-mystery-hungarian-finnish.html Evolution Paleontology & Fossils Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:50:03 EDT news671890984 Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. /news/2025-07-elephants-people.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:10:01 EDT news671889718 A team of researchers from Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid has developed a groundbreaking technique that maps temperature in three dimensions within biological tissue, using invisible light and artificial intelligence. /news/2025-07-scientists-3d-temperature-tissue-ai.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:42:58 EDT news671877773 In spring 2024, pro-Palestinian student encampments that began at Columbia and Harvard spread to university campuses throughout the U.S. as Israel invaded Gaza in response to Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack. At least 100 campuses had encampments for at least a few days during this period. /news/2025-07-universities-protests-violent-lessons-pro.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:20:01 EDT news671800840 Researchers have described how fish larvae rely on species-specific combinations of vision and movement to detect and capture prey. /news/2025-07-fish-species-evolved-strategies-distinct.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:50:03 EDT news671809711 A new study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University has uncovered that certain ocean viruses—specifically RNA viruses—may disrupt how carbon and nutrients are recycled in the ocean, potentially altering the global carbon cycle. /news/2025-07-rna-viruses-differentially-carbon-recycling.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:40:53 EDT news671802050 Scientists predict one of the major surveys by NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope may reveal around 100,000 celestial blasts, ranging from exploding stars to feeding black holes. Roman may even find evidence of some of the universe's first stars, which are thought to completely self-destruct without leaving any remnant behind. /news/2025-07-survey-nasa-roman-unveil-cosmic.html Astronomy Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:05:12 EDT news671799905 Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations. /news/2025-07-ai-tool-deciphers-mysteries-nanoparticle.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:23:31 EDT news671786606 Weather prediction systems provide critical information about dangerous storms, deadly heat waves and potential droughts, among other climate emergencies. /news/2025-07-qa-discusses-ai-democratize-weather.html Environment Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:20:05 EDT news671726763 More than 180 plants were stolen from a well-loved public park in Nottingham called the Arboretum in May 2025. This incident took place just days after volunteers had re-planted flowers and shrubs to repair damage from a previous theft in March. In April 2025, the nearby Forest Recreation Ground community garden was also targeted—roses and crops grown by volunteers were stolen; even a pond went missing. /news/2025-07-theft-overlooked.html Social Sciences Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:50:01 EDT news671726694 A vertebrate fossil discovered in a rock from the Late Triassic period (approximately 220 million years ago) in Takahashi City, Okayama Prefecture, has been confirmed through joint research by Okayama University of Science and other institutions to be the first ichthyosaur fossil ever found in western Japan. The discovery was announced by Professor Takafumi Kato of the Department of Dinosaur Paleontology and his research team at the Paleontological Society of Japan's annual meeting, held on June 29 at Hokkaido University. /news/2025-07-japan-western-ichthyosaur-museum-event.html Paleontology & Fossils Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:32:56 EDT news671715171 Snake, scorpion, and spider venom are most frequently associated with poisonous bites, but with the help of artificial intelligence, they might be able to help fight antibiotic resistance, which contributes to more than one million deaths worldwide each year. /news/2025-07-ai-hundreds-potential-antibiotics-snake.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:27:24 EDT news671714840 Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the early years of the new millennium. After he came to the University of California, Irvine in 2006, the concept evolved into an invention that would revolutionize research by enabling scientists to study the fundamental characteristics of matter at nanoscale resolution. /news/2025-07-revolutionizing-photo-microscopy-globe-celebrated.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:10:01 EDT news671703676