/ en-us �鶹��Ժ internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: �鶹��Ժics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Based on simulations, researchers report that the next big earthquake along the San Andreas fault is unlikely to resemble previous quakes. Researchers at the intersection of algebra, geometry, particle physics and cosmology are making headway in describing the shape of the universe. And common food thickeners based on derivatives of cellulose don't just pass through your digestive tract as previously believed—gut bacteria are able to feed on them. /news/2025-08-saturday-citations-category-supernovas-neurons.html Other Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:30:01 EDT news674476215 For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have reimagined the pollination process by developing a new system that uses gene editing to create flowers that can be easily pollinated by AI-controlled robots working round the clock. /news/2025-08-redesigned-robots-gene-ai-faster.html Biotechnology Agriculture Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:28 EDT news674472860 A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently found that the strength difference between two very high-frequency radio pulses in lightning is closely related to the altitude of the lightning in the cloud—a finding that sheds light on how the power in lightning radiates. This, in turn, gives insight into lightning initiation in a particularly powerful type of in-cloud lightning. /news/2025-08-sensor-powerful-lightning-clouds.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:35:01 EDT news674469298 Deep learning models have shown great potential in predicting and engineering functional enzymes and proteins. Does this prowess extend to other fields of biology as well? /news/2025-08-complex-deep-genetic-perturbation-simple.html Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:50:01 EDT news674387427 Using artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have come up with a new way to design nanoparticles that can more efficiently deliver RNA vaccines and other types of RNA therapies. /news/2025-08-ai-nanoparticles-efficient-rna-vaccine.html Bio & Medicine Fri, 15 Aug 2025 05:00:01 EDT news674411341 Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called SonicBoom that can find crops like apples based on the sound they make. The novel technology, still in the early stages of development, may someday be used by farm robots for tasks like pruning vines or locating ripe apples hidden among the leaves. /news/2025-08-agricultural-sensor-crops-vibrations-alternative.html Biotechnology Agriculture Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:23:04 EDT news674407382 Southwest Research Institute scientists and engineers have developed a custom large language model (LLM) to accelerate drug design and discovery. /news/2025-08-chemistry-llm-faster-drug-discovery.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:06:05 EDT news674402760 Artificial intelligence (AI) promised to revolutionize the field of education. But how, and how much, is it actually being used by students and teachers today? Our recent article sought to answer this question by analyzing AI's integration into universities from two perspectives: scientific (how it is actually being used) and social (perceptions of its use). /news/2025-08-ai-isnt-impact-university.html Education Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:14:57 EDT news674392488 Researchers have captured the first clear view of the hidden architecture that helps shape a simple multicellular organism, showing how cells work together to build complex life forms. /news/2025-08-algae-reveal-geometry-life.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:09:03 EDT news674392141 With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). /news/2025-08-generative-ai-compounds-drug-resistant.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:00:12 EDT news674293562 Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small whole organism at once. The ability to image 3D changes in real time over a large field of view could lead to new insights in developmental biology and neuroscience. /news/2025-08-multifocus-microscope-limits-fast-3d.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:01 EDT news674382481 Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an explanation for one of the strangest stellar explosions ever seen. /news/2025-08-astronomers-supernova-triggered-black-hole.html Astronomy Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:59:16 EDT news674380752 In the world of nanotechnology, seeing clearly isn't easy. It's even harder when you're trying to understand how a material's properties relate to its structure at the nanoscale. Tools like piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) help scientists peer into the nanoscale functionality of materials, revealing how they respond to electric fields. But those signals are often buried in noise, especially in instances where the most interesting physics happens. /news/2025-08-clarity-noise-approach-recovers-hidden.html Nanomaterials Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:58:05 EDT news674315881 Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, with the simple chemical formula Al2O3, occurs frequently in Earth's crust in the form of the mineral corundum and its well-known color variants sapphires and rubies—and is used for a wide variety of purposes, whether in electronics, the chemical industry, or technical ceramics. /news/2025-08-machine-reveals-mysteries-amorphous-alumina.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:13:03 EDT news674309581 A public‑private partnership between Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma �鶹��Ժics Laboratory (PPPL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has led to a new artificial intelligence (AI) approach that is faster at finding what's known as "magnetic shadows" in a fusion vessel: safe havens protected from the intense heat of the plasma. /news/2025-08-shadows-fusion-faster-ai.html Plasma �鶹��Ժics Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:14:04 EDT news674298842 From its olive groves to its coastal cities, the Mediterranean depends on a delicate balance of rain and sun, but climate change is tipping the scales. /news/2025-08-mediterranean-climate-future-droughts-downpours.html Earth Sciences Environment Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:26:03 EDT news674231161 Collecting and analyzing the amount of toxic micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) in water is comparatively easy: Fill a bucket from your source, evaporate the water, and count and characterize the plastics that are left behind. But what if you want to know how many MNPs are in that apple you're about to eat, the tree in your backyard, or even in your brain? /news/2025-08-bad-micro-nanoplastics-health.html Environment Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:49:00 EDT news674228928 Many writers, actors and other creatives are currently experiencing a small wave of panic about artificial intelligence (AI) taking over their jobs. /news/2025-08-ai-creative-job-human-intervention.html Economics & Business Education Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:38:04 EDT news674228281 Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a mix of drones and AI can help farmers measure the health of their corn more efficiently. /news/2025-08-drones-efficiently-health-corn.html Biotechnology Agriculture Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:13:12 EDT news674226790 Plan a route, grab some snacks, and fuel up. Engineers and scientists have been sending massive magnets from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national labs on cross-country road trips. /news/2025-08-massive-magnets-repurposing-electromagnets.html General �鶹��Ժics Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:03:59 EDT news674226234 A research team headed by the University of Zurich has developed a powerful new method to precisely edit DNA by combining cutting-edge genetic engineering with artificial intelligence. The work has been published in Nature Biotechnology. /news/2025-08-ai-crispr-precise-gene.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:23:04 EDT news674216581 A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa is making it easier for scientists to explore complex geoscience data—from tracking sea levels on Earth to analyzing atmospheric conditions on Mars. /news/2025-08-idea-ai-geoscientists-explore-earth.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:55:05 EDT news674207702 An international team of scientists working with Queensland Museum's CoralBank have made groundbreaking findings that rewrite the family tree of one of the world's most iconic coral groups and described five new-to-science species. /news/2025-08-coral-reveals-species-hidden-plain.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 12 Aug 2025 08:08:56 EDT news674204925 Despite the fact that much of the current research in paleontology focuses on trying to find traces of organic remains in fossils, dinosaur DNA has unfortunately never been recovered. /news/2025-08-physicist-blood-vessels-world-largest.html Paleontology & Fossils Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:54:03 EDT news674146441 Photosynthesis is nature's way of turning sunlight into chemical energy. /news/2025-08-harness-nature-era-green-chemistry.html Biochemistry Materials Science Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:29:47 EDT news674144974 In recent decades, the use of video datasets such as wildlife cameras or lab videos has become one of the most important tools for the study of animal behavior. These datasets help researchers make behavioral observations by capturing detailed and real-time data that can be analyzed repeatedly, allowing for quantitative analyses of movements, interactions and patterns, tracking, and behavioral classifications. /news/2025-08-mice-lockbox-puzzle-captured-multi.html Plants & Animals Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:32:03 EDT news674141521 One-third of shark species are at risk of extinction, yet scientists still lack basic data on their habitats, populations, and trends. To solve this, researchers at Virginia Tech, Stanford University, and others are building the world's largest open database of shark sightings using online photos called sharkPulse. /news/2025-08-ai-citizen-science-combine-sharks.html Ecology Biotechnology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:20:30 EDT news674133624 Researchers from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and the U.S. have reconstructed the composition of phytoplankton communities around Antarctica over nearly three decades, the most comprehensive study of its kind to date. /news/2025-08-shifting-foundations-antarctic-food-web.html Ecology Cell & Microbiology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:23:07 EDT news674126581 After enduring centuries of hunting, habitat loss, and disease, North American beavers (Castor canadensis) are making a comeback—and bringing benefits for both humans and nature with them. /news/2025-08-strategically-beavers-healthy-climate-resilient.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:11:05 EDT news674122262 Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) models, learn to make accurate predictions by analyzing large amounts of data. 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