/ en-us Âé¶čÒùÔș internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Âé¶čÒùÔșics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Professor Edmund Lam, Dr. Ni Chen and their research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering under the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have developed a novel uncertainty-aware Fourier ptychography (UA-FP) technology that significantly enhances imaging system stability in complex real-world environments. The research has been published in Light: Science & Applications. /news/2025-10-uncertainty-aware-fourier-ptychography-imaging.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:32:03 EDT news679584721 The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded for the development of metal–organic frameworks: molecular structures that have large spaces within them, capable of capturing and storing gases and other chemicals. /news/2025-10-australian-chemist-won-nobel-prize.html Materials Science Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:40:01 EDT news679224675 When fire erupted at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. bulk liquid petroleum storage terminal, large plumes of dark smoke billowed into the clear skies over Deer Park, Texas. Despite the efforts of site staff and local firefighters, more than 70 million gallons of petroleum products burned or were otherwise released into the environment over the following three days in March 2019. /news/2025-10-refinery-chemical-disasters-longer-safety.html Environment Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:15:05 EDT news679230902 Predicting tropical cyclones (TCs) accurately is crucial for disaster mitigation and public safety. Although the forecasting accuracy of TC tracks has improved substantially in recent decades, progress in the forecasting of TC intensity remains limited. In recent years, deep learning methods have shown great potential in TC intensity prediction; however, they still face challenges, including limited interpretability, cumbersome feature engineering, and unreliable real-time operational forecasts. /news/2025-10-deep-network-significantly-tropical-cyclone.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:06:03 EDT news679226761 In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness. /news/2025-10-human-exceptionalism-root-ecological-crisis.html Evolution Ecology Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:29:53 EDT news679224587 For decades, scientists have been curious about how much water Mars once had and what led to its gradual transformation into the dry planet we see today. A new study published online on September 2, 2025, in the Geology journal, sheds light on this mystery by looking deep inside Martian craters, which act like "ice archives" that store a frozen record of the planet's past. These craters reveal that Mars went through repeated ice ages over hundreds of millions of years; however, with each cycle, the amount of remaining ice decreased steadily. /news/2025-10-frozen-clues-mars-crater-deposits.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:49:04 EDT news679222141 Last year, we celebrated 50 years since the first papers on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) were published. It wasn't a wild celebration with masses on the streets, nor was it widely celebrated in universities, but rather a quiet admiration by people in the field for one of the cornerstone methods that has advanced our understanding of many processes at the molecular scale. /news/2025-10-analysis-year-problem-molecular-fluorescence.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:29:13 EDT news679145341 The Gulf of Mexico, a regional ocean, is hugged by the southeastern United States and a large stretch of the Mexican coast, making it very important for both countries. The area helps bring goods to local and global markets, produces power for the country with off-shore oil rigs, and hosts a myriad of vacation-worthy beaches—so modeling and predicting its dynamics is a critical task. /news/2025-10-regional-ocean-dynamics-emulated-ai.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:19:05 EDT news679144741 Antarctic krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, are an important species in the Southern Ocean ecosystem and global carbon cycle, in part because of their poop. Their dense and rich fecal pellets sink rapidly, transporting carbon from surface waters to the deep ocean. In a new study published in the journal Biology Letters, scientists have discovered another way these crustaceans keep carbon locked away from the atmosphere—by ejecting carbon-rich masses of rejected food, called food boluses, that also plummet to the ocean depths. /news/2025-10-balls-krill-food-good-news.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:30:01 EDT news679138054 Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed DeMemSeg, an AI-powered analysis pipeline that addresses a long-standing challenge in microscopy: precisely segmenting and measuring individual cell membranes that overlap in two-dimensional (2D) projection images. This innovation is expected to accelerate research on cellular mechanisms and related diseases. /news/2025-10-ai-based-method-accurately-segments.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:12:03 EDT news679133521 A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky—such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, a fast-moving asteroid, or a brief stellar flare from a compact star system—and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training. /news/2025-10-ai-advance-astronomers-cosmic-events.html Astronomy Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:00:05 EDT news678984481 Carbon is the chemical element found in the greenhouse gas CO₂ emitted from fossil fuels burned in cars, factories and other sources. When carbon is stored in the ocean instead of remaining in the atmosphere, it helps to reduce climate change on land. /news/2025-10-fish-affect-carbon-storage-ocean.html Ecology Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:33:03 EDT news679059181 In research that could improve weather forecasting and winter driving safety, a University of Michigan-led study distinguished nine distinct precipitation types—varieties of rain, snow and mixed-phase (e.g., sleet)—using unsupervised machine learning and nearly a decade's worth of high-speed camera data. The research is published in Science Advances. /news/2025-10-machine-precipitation.html Environment Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:24:05 EDT news679058642 Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers. /news/2025-10-nobel-prize-physics-scientists-discoveries.html General Âé¶čÒùÔșics Quantum Âé¶čÒùÔșics Tue, 07 Oct 2025 06:01:36 EDT news679035669 Scientists have always needed someone to help foot the bill for their work. /news/2025-10-science-money-funds.html Economics & Business Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:50:04 EDT news678975575 In synthetic and structural biology, advances in artificial intelligence have led to an explosion of designing new proteins with specific functions, from antibodies to blood clotting agents, by using computers to accurately predict the 3D structure of any given amino acid sequence. /news/2025-10-disordered-proteins-physics-based-algorithm.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:00:01 EDT news678704281 Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and enzymes in ants can kickstart the fermentation process that turns milk into yogurt. The work highlights how traditional practices can inspire new approaches to food science and even add creativity to the dinner table. /news/2025-10-yogurt-ants-revives-creative-fermentation.html Cell & Microbiology Agriculture Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:00:07 EDT news678555721 Trawling restrictions not only benefit fish and shellfish; anemones and corals are also becoming more common, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg. Twenty-six years of underwater videos from the depths of the Koster Sea also show long-term changes in the ecosystem as the water becomes warmer. /news/2025-10-unique-videos-trawling-restrictions-life.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:20:15 EDT news678701997 In business, marketing and social work, financial incentives are often used to increase people's motivation, guide their behavior and achieve lasting success. However, the latter is not always the case, as a recent study in Royal Society Open Science by the University Hospital of WĂŒrzburg (UKW) shows. Prof. Dr. Grit Hein and her team at the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience at the Center for Mental Health (ZEP) investigated whether people from a particular group would approach a foreign group if they received money for doing so. /news/2025-10-money-buy-cooperation-deep-seated.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:52:04 EDT news678631921 Most pupils who go through the lengthy process of being identified with dyslexia, autism or another condition end up spending the bulk of their time supported not by a trained specialist teacher but by a teaching assistant. /news/2025-10-specialized-teachers-mainstream-schools-children.html Education Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:17:04 EDT news678626222 An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few meters above the seafloor and has only been sampled a handful of times. A study by oceanographers at the University of HawaiÊ»i at Mānoa provided the first in-depth look at this habitat, revealing a dynamic community that may be more sensitive to seasonal changes than previously understood. /news/2025-10-rare-glimpse-understudied-ecosystem-prompts.html Ecology Thu, 02 Oct 2025 06:54:09 EDT news678606842 At first glance, plants may seem passive—but beneath their stillness lies a world of complexity and constant activity. Plants are highly sensitive to their surroundings, continuously monitoring environmental signals to adapt and survive. Think of them as nature's nosy neighbors, always alert to what's happening around them. /news/2025-10-incredibly-sensitive-response-humans.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:18:06 EDT news678532681 Programmable photonics devices, which use light to perform complex computations, are emerging as a key area in integrated photonics research. Unlike conventional electronics that transmit signals with electrons, these systems use photons, offering faster processing speeds, higher bandwidths, and greater energy efficiency. These advantages make programmable photonics well-suited for demanding tasks like real-time deep learning and data-intensive computing. /news/2025-09-photodiode-germanium-key-chip.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:17:04 EDT news678464222 You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding. /news/2025-09-core-electron-bonding-require-extreme.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:52:36 EDT news678462753 Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and bats—has long fascinated biologists. Now, a research team led by Prof. Zou Zhengting from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has introduced a deep learning–based method to unravel the complex molecular mechanisms driving this phenomenon. /news/2025-09-deep-tool-unravel-molecular-mechanisms.html Evolution Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:30:01 EDT news678455539 In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Calama, Chile, damaging buildings and causing power outages. The country has endured violent earthquakes, including the most powerful recorded in history: a 9.5-magnitude "megathrust" event that struck central Chile in 1960, causing a tsunami and killing between 1,000 to 6,000 people. However, the Calama quake was different from the megathrust quakes that are usually associated with the most destructive events in Chile and around the world. /news/2025-09-thermal-runaway-mechanism-ramp-magnitude.html Earth Sciences Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:12:04 EDT news678453121 A recent report from the University of Chicago's Air Quality Life Index found that wildfires are worsening air quality in Canada. The report found that in 2023, wildfires caused concentrations of particulate matter to rise to levels not seen since the index started taking records in 1998. /news/2025-09-ai-indoor-ventilation-wildfire-season.html Environment Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:56:05 EDT news678452162 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 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 Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are now used by students and teachers at every level of education. /news/2025-09-generative-ai-outsourcing-production-knowledge.html Education Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:10:01 EDT news678369172