/ 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. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act into law, making it a federal crime to publish AI-generated deep fakes and non-consensual intimate imagery. /news/2025-05-key-inflection-internet-expert.html Political science Wed, 21 May 2025 10:48:03 EDT news667043281 In today's digital world, people routinely turn to the internet for health or medical information. In addition to actively searching online, they often come across health-related information on social media or receive it through emails or messages from family or friends. /news/2025-05-fall-fake-health-faster-facts.html Social Sciences Political science Fri, 16 May 2025 08:49:05 EDT news666604141 Climate change solutions might be lurking in the dark recesses of your home, according to microbiologist James Henriksen, and he's encouraging everyone to get involved in the search for extremophiles, organisms that survive in extreme environments—including your water heater, air conditioner and dishwasher. /news/2025-05-goo-gunk-home-solutions-climate.html Environment Thu, 15 May 2025 15:31:04 EDT news666541861 An international study has found that young adults in low- and middle-income countries who are sex workers, gay men, transgender or living with HIV are facing a surge in online abuse from harassment and blackmail to the non-consensual sharing of intimate images. /news/2025-05-marginalized-young-adults-middle-income.html Social Sciences Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:01 EDT news666000257 Scientists from the Faculty of Â鶹ÒùÔºics and Applied Informatics at the University of Lodz have published an article on friction in the journal Small. Their research on "bismuth islands" moving on the surface of graphite confirmed the existence of a totally new form of so-called superlubricity—a friction-free contact between two solid bodies. /news/2025-05-revolution-friction-super-smooth-materials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 07 May 2025 16:19:41 EDT news665853568 Whether you read negative news online or watch videos of adorable puppies on social media, spending excessive time on your device can be harmful. Doomscrolling, or binging negative information through various feeds, can take a toll on mental and physical health. A Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist explains the negative effects doomscrolling and overindulging online. /news/2025-05-doomscrolling-addiction.html Social Sciences Tue, 06 May 2025 12:29:03 EDT news665753341 People coming out of prison in New Zealand face multiple hurdles reintegrating into society—starting with one of the most fundamental elements of modern life: getting a bank account. /news/2025-05-nz-bank-life-prisoners-harder.html Economics & Business Political science Tue, 06 May 2025 09:43:04 EDT news665743382 A new report from New Zealand's Classification Office has revealed how young people are being exposed to harmful content online and what it is doing to their mental health. /news/2025-05-people-young-content-online.html Social Sciences Tue, 06 May 2025 09:24:04 EDT news665742241 Few phrases send chills up a CEO's spine like "activist shareholder." In the past year, investment funds such as Elliott Investment Management have successfully pressured companies such as Starbucks and Southwest Airlines to overhaul their boards and their operations. /news/2025-05-spurned-ceos-activist-shareholders.html Economics & Business Thu, 01 May 2025 04:47:04 EDT news665293622 In an advance in microsensor technology, researchers have unveiled an ultra-sensitive gas detection method using surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors enhanced by the physics of exceptional points (EPs). These EPs, phenomena from non-Hermitian systems where eigenvalues and eigenvectors converge, allow for amplified signal response. /news/2025-04-exceptional-boost-sensitivity-surface-acoustic.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 30 Apr 2025 03:34:35 EDT news665202863 Amazon's first batch of internet satellites rocketed into orbit Monday, the latest entry in the mega constellation market currently dominated by SpaceX's thousands of Starlinks. /news/2025-04-amazon-internet-satellites-spacex-starlinks.html Space Exploration Tue, 29 Apr 2025 02:05:45 EDT news665111134 We've all been there—trying to peel a boiled egg, but mangling it beyond all recognition as the hard shell stubbornly sticks to the egg white. Worse, the egg ends up covered in chewy bits of adhesive membrane in the end. /news/2025-04-egg-food-scientist.html Other Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:00:04 EDT news665066543 The Reykjanes Peninsula at Iceland's southwestern edge is one of the country's most populated regions, and it is also one of the most volcanically active. In 2024, sensing technology developed at Caltech was deployed in the region to study the motion of subsurface magma and its eruption into lava on the surface. /news/2025-04-fiber-technology-early-volcanic-eruptions.html Earth Sciences Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:14:04 EDT news664791242 In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" Thousands of starving farmers, their faces smeared with ox blood, marched toward the opulent vaults held by the Han dynasty's elite rulers. /news/2025-04-years-chinese-history-reveals-today.html Economics & Business Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:40:03 EDT news664719972 Globally, and especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), a significant portion of the population lacks access to essential health care services. Although there are many contributing factors that create barriers to access, in many LMICs, failing or obsolete equipment plays a significant role. /news/2025-04-biomedical-lab-empowers-middle-income.html Education Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:17:37 EDT news664557448 When Grandma and Grandpa are in charge, the children are likely staring at a screen—a long-standing parental complaint now supported by University of Arizona research. /news/2025-04-screen-prevalent-grandparents.html Social Sciences Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:31:04 EDT news664198261 For customers who don't have the freedom to choose where they shop, technological advancements—particularly artificial intelligence (AI) and intrusive personal data collection—are making price discrimination, inflation and lower-quality goods increasingly likely. Vulnerable consumers are most at risk. /news/2025-04-price-discrimination-smarter-income-consumers.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:39:05 EDT news664187942 To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal and what is not. Sometimes things can fall outside the range of normal and people are OK with it. You might have a neighbor who likes to wear Revolutionary War-era costumes on their evening walks around the neighborhood. Their behavior seems weird to you, but you consider it an instance of everyone's freedom to express themselves. /news/2025-04-consensus-moral-intolerance-identity-driven.html Social Sciences Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:29:04 EDT news663856142 Scientists from Skoltech, the Institute of Nanotechnology of Microelectronics, RAS, and other research centers have refined the understanding of how plasma treatment of carbon-based electrodes affects the key characteristics of supercapacitors. These are energy storage devices that complement batteries in electric cars, trains, port cranes, and elsewhere. /news/2025-04-nitrogen-argon-plasma-boosts-carbon.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 03 Apr 2025 11:19:04 EDT news662897941 A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be thousands of satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper as the company looks to play catch-up with SpaceX and its Starlink internet constellation. /news/2025-04-alliance-amazon-spacex-starlink-competitor.html Space Exploration Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:56:52 EDT news662828209 In the Netflix series "Adolescence," we have no idea why Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested at the beginning of the first episode. The tension from seeing a helpless 13-year-old boy escorted to a police station and interrogated holds us to the screen. Every minute of the one-hour episode, shot in a single continuous take, makes us feel like we are in the police station with the Miller family, viewing things through his parents' disorientation. /news/2025-04-adolescence-netflix-painful-unregulated-internet.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:30:01 EDT news662815497 A new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment shows that pests such as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and grubs (Holotrichia serrata) could have a significant impact on maize cultivation in Nigeria in the coming decades. /news/2025-03-maize-cultivation-nigeria-pest-climate.html Ecology Agriculture Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:58:04 EDT news662054281 Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. /news/2025-03-nasa-astronauts-butch-wilmore-suni.html Space Exploration Wed, 19 Mar 2025 06:16:24 EDT news661583772 NASA's two stuck astronauts headed back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to close out a dramatic marathon mission that began with a bungled Boeing test flight more than nine months ago. /news/2025-03-nasa-stuck-astronauts-earth-months-1.html Space Exploration Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:09:35 EDT news661493369 Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were barely known outside space circles when they strapped in for what was supposed to be a quick test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule last June. Nine months later, they've captured the world's attention—and hearts—as NASA's stuck astronauts. /news/2025-03-nasa-astronauts-stuck-space-months.html Space Exploration Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:15:50 EDT news661439745 A state law signed Feb. 28, 2025, removes gender identity as a protected status from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, leaving transgender people vulnerable to discrimination. The rights of transgender people—those who present gender characteristics that differ from what has historically been expected of someone based on their biological sex traits—are under political attack across the United States. There are now hundreds of anti-trans bills at various points in the legislative process. /news/2025-03-psychology-anti-trans-legislation-cognitive.html Social Sciences Political science Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:42:05 EDT news661434121 With a few taps on his phone, Dandam Nangor knows exactly what temperature his greenhouse is at, when to water his crops and even the pH of the soil. /news/2025-03-nigeria-tech-workers-farmers-ai.html Agriculture Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:56:27 EDT news661326979 MIT aerospace engineers have found that greenhouse gas emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can sustainably operate there. /news/2025-03-climate-satellites-safely-orbit-space.html Space Exploration Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:00:01 EDT news660822647 KTU researchers are proposing an innovative forest regeneration model and a sound analysis system that can predict forest conditions and detect environmental changes in real time. /news/2025-03-scientists-advanced-forest-forests-future.html Ecology Biotechnology Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:13:16 EST news660568392 Lush greenery and abundant wildlife—attributes of many affluent L.A. neighborhoods that lure people—would seemingly be draws for predators like coyotes too. /news/2025-02-la-coyotes-wealthy-areas-home.html Plants & Animals Ecology Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:20:01 EST news659963868