/ 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. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established in 2015 to address some of the world's most pressing problems. The 17 goals include 169 targets such as eradicating poverty, reducing inequality and acting on climate, in service of peace, prosperity and environmental sustainability. /news/2025-10-bridging-gap-ai-hinder-sustainable.html Environment Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:50:05 EDT news679229401 Duplicating expensive resources is expensive and wasteful, and most people would agree it's unnecessary. However, the planned increase in major satellite constellations is currently causing a massive duplication of resources as individual companies and even countries try to set up their own infrastructure in space. /news/2025-10-source-mega-constellations-overcrowding.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:13:04 EDT news679147982 A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson's lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve LiDAR, a technology that uses lightwaves to measure distance. The lab was designing high-power chips that could produce brighter beams of light. /news/2025-10-powerful-precise-multi-lasers-chip.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:22:04 EDT news679047721 A team of scientists from the University of Chicago, the University of California Berkeley, Argonne National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has developed molecular qubits that bridge the gap between light and magnetism—and operate at the same frequencies as telecommunications technology. The advance, published today in Science, establishes a promising new building block for scalable quantum technologies that can integrate seamlessly with existing fiber-optic networks. /news/2025-10-molecular-qubits-communicate-telecom-frequencies.html Optics & Photonics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:02:04 EDT news678643321 People's lives are more enmeshed with digital systems than ever before, increasing users' vulnerability and insecurity. From data leaks like the 2017 Equifax data breach to the more recent cyberattack on British retailer Marks & Spencer, business operations and data on the internet continue to be vulnerable. /news/2025-09-digital-crisis.html Economics & Business Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:40:01 EDT news678032244 When graphic videos go viral, like the recent fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, it can feel impossible to protect yourself from seeing things you did not consent to see. But there are steps you can take. /news/2025-09-disturbing-content-social-media-peace.html Social Sciences Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:50:05 EDT news677155802 When OpenAI released "study mode" in July 2025, the company touted ChatGPT's educational benefits. "When ChatGPT is prompted to teach or tutor, it can significantly improve academic performance," the company's vice president of education told reporters at the product's launch. But any dedicated teacher would be right to wonder: Is this just marketing, or does scholarly research really support such claims? /news/2025-09-ai-affect-cognitive-psychologist-hard.html Social Sciences Education Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:42:05 EDT news676726921 Serina Diniega always wanted to plant an avocado tree at her Altadena home, but now she worries the creamy green fruit might pose a threat. /news/2025-09-tainted-soil-la-residents-nature.html Environment Wed, 03 Sep 2025 10:00:17 EDT news676109905 As a teen growing up in an abusive household, Morgan coped daily with physical and emotional harm from her mother. However, she felt safe and supported when she posted about her experiences on a fake Instagram account—widely referred to as a Finsta—which disguised her true identity. /news/2025-09-valid-social-media-lifeline-abused.html Social Sciences Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:50:01 EDT news676042897 On a bench in a Philadelphia lab, a robot the size of a microwave clicks through tiny vials, building molecules that existed only as lines of code a week earlier. /news/2025-08-harnessing-ai-revolutionize-antibiotic-discovery.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:55:28 EDT news675687318 A new study led by researchers at the University at Albany's Center for Technology in Government finds that in some rural and tribal communities, the public library remains the single most important access point for technology, learning and civic engagement—often functioning as the community's primary link to the digital world. /news/2025-08-highlights-tribal-libraries-bridge-digital.html Education Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:08:06 EDT news675677282 Paula Clare Harper, AB'10, studies music, sound and the internet. An assistant professor of music at the University of Chicago, she coedited a collection of essays brought together in the book "Taylor Swift: The Star, the Songs, the Fans" and is at work on another book titled Viral Musicking and the Rise of Noisy Platforms, which traces the history of online musical virality. /news/2025-08-taylor-swift-reveals-digital-culture.html Social Sciences Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:46:04 EDT news675596761 I didn't notice the scarlet tanager until the alert appeared on my phone: "Merlin heard a new bird!" /news/2025-08-ditch-chatbots-ai-nature-apps.html Ecology Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:40:04 EDT news675574152 Mike Evans knew something had to change. /news/2025-08-college-students-bombarded-misinformation-professor.html Social Sciences Education Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:38:05 EDT news675430681 Psychologists have long considered how a tendency towards irrational thinking or particular personality traits might predict people's interest in conspiracies. Yet these individual factors do not explain the group processes through which conspiracy theorists are extending their influence and impact. /news/2025-08-people-embrace-conspiracy-theories-community.html Social Sciences Political science Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:20:01 EDT news674997622 This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years old. Medical researchers reported that the majority of chronic pain patients discontinue cannabis use within one year. And engineers prototyped solar trees, a new solar technology designed with natural tree morphology that can be incorporated into natural branches in the upper canopies of trees while allowing light to penetrate to underlying vegetation. /news/2025-08-saturday-citations-general-gas-giants.html Other Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:00:03 EDT news675081846 It might start as a joke, a belief, or a rumor. At first, it's easy to dismiss. But then it gains a twist, builds momentum, and spreads like wildfire. What causes some ideas to die out while others take over the internet? /news/2025-08-cascades-ideas-beliefs-digital-age.html Mathematics Social Sciences Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:02:03 EDT news675014521 A new study highlights how disruptions in classifieds impacted political coverage, creating opportunities for more extreme candidates. /news/2025-08-craigslist-fuel-america-political-polarization.html Economics & Business Political science Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:46:58 EDT news674729213 We live in an age of declining trust in public institutions: parliament, the health and education systems, courts and police have all suffered over the past decade, both in New Zealand and internationally. /news/2025-08-news-fallen-complicated-thought.html Social Sciences Political science Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:54:03 EDT news674481241 A perfect storm is brewing for reading. /news/2025-08-ai-obsolete-students-lot.html Education Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:07:46 EDT news674309262 Each afternoon, a familiar conversation unfolds in many households. /news/2025-08-fine-simple-ways-real-kids.html Social Sciences Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:07:10 EDT news674226428 New inventions—like the printing press, magnetic compasses, steam engines, calculators and the internet—can create radical shifts in our everyday lives. Many of these new technologies were met with some degree of skepticism by those who lived through the transition. /news/2025-08-status-quo-shifts-algorithms-mess.html Social Sciences Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:14:51 EDT news674126088 Artificial intelligence is giving some climate research projects a much-needed boost at a time of worsening extreme weather and funding cuts that threaten science in the U.S. and elsewhere. /news/2025-08-ai-fast-tracking-climate.html Ecology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:49:37 EDT news673681770 Researchers from South Dakota State University presented a high-tech system to help farmers optimize crop yields while lowering costs at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. The system, detailed in Integrating IoT and secure data transmission in a crop monitoring system, tracks and analyzes crop development through data collected by sensors, biosensors, the Internet of Things and AI. /news/2025-08-crop-iot-ai-tech-optimize.html Biotechnology Agriculture Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:26:03 EDT news673529161 America has a misinformation problem. It's in our news feeds, on our social media timelines, and at our kitchen tables. It's driving wedges between friends and family—and sharp political divides. /news/2025-07-smart-people-fall-false.html Social Sciences Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:23:04 EDT news673089781 Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent powered by a large language model (LLM) that creates more accurate and informative descriptions of biological processes and their functions in gene set analysis than current systems. The work is published in the journal Nature Methods. /news/2025-07-ai-agent-accuracy-gene-analysis.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 28 Jul 2025 13:00:05 EDT news672925815 President Donald Trump has threatened to levy higher tariffs on more than two dozen countries and on various products in the past few months. China in particular has been a target of the administration's trade wars, aimed at preventing its dominance in areas such as artificial intelligence, although the U.S. government announced recently that it would sell advanced semiconductors used in AI to China. /news/2025-07-qa-effects-restrictions-digital-technologies.html Political science Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:00:01 EDT news672417084 Located about 3 miles offshore and 5 miles north of the Naval Postgraduate School is a first-of-its-kind ocean-sensing buoy. With 5G technologies and solar panels built in, the buoy has the capabilities to collect oceanographic and meteorological data 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the next three years. /news/2025-07-naval-postgraduate-school-sustainable-buoy.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:10:02 EDT news672386510 Blue Origin's first launch of its New Glenn rocket was supposed to send up a pair of Mars-bound satellites for NASA, but uncertain readiness plans last year forced NASA to yank back its payload. Now things are lining up for the mission to finally take flight. /news/2025-07-blue-lines-nasa-mars-bound.html Space Exploration Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:00:04 EDT news672043692 Is it wizardry? Â鶹ÒùÔºicists at the University of Konstanz have succeeded in changing the properties of a material in a non-thermal way with the help of light and magnons. The new process is not only promising for information technology, but possibly for quantum research, too—at room temperature. /news/2025-07-magic-magnons-material-properties-thermally.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:38:00 EDT news671881074