/ 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. 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 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 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 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 Marine cone snails are host to a family of dangerous neurotoxins. Very little is known about how those toxins interact with the human body, making this an area of interest for medical drug research and an area of concern in national security spaces. For the first time, a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully trained a machine learning model that predicts how alpha conotoxins bind to specific human receptor subtypes, which could help researchers develop lifesaving anti-toxins. /news/2025-08-machine-scientists-deadly-cone-snail.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:30:01 EDT news673615475 Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have reimagined the capabilities of atomic force microscopy, or AFM, transforming it from a tool for imaging nanoscale features into one that also captures large-scale biological architecture. Often called a "touching microscope," AFM uses a fine probe to feel surfaces at resolutions down to a billionth of a meter. Although powerful, traditional AFM has been limited by its narrow field of view, making it difficult to understand how individual features fit into larger organizational structures. /news/2025-08-automated-atomic-microscopy-reveals-view.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:40:03 EDT news673526287 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 Carbon emissions continue to increase at record levels, fueling climate instability and worsening air quality conditions for billions in cities worldwide. Yet despite global commitments to carbon neutrality, urban policymakers still struggle to implement effective mitigation strategies at the city scale. /news/2025-07-smarter-tools-policymakers-urban-carbon.html Environment Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:15:18 EDT news671728512 For decades, scientists have looked to light as a way to speed up computing. Photonic neural networks—systems that use light instead of electricity to process information—promise faster speeds and lower energy use than traditional electronics. /news/2025-07-multisynapse-optical-network-outperforms-digital.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:05:19 EDT news671288716 Cornell researchers have found a new and potentially more accurate way to see what proteins are doing inside living cells—using the cells' own components as built-in sensors. /news/2025-07-built-protein-sensors-noninvasive-tracking.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:05:15 EDT news670604708 Imagine a computer that does not rely only on electronics but uses light to perform tasks faster and more efficiently. A collaboration between two research teams from Tampere University in Finland and Université Marie et Louis Pasteur in France have now demonstrated a novel way of processing information using light and optical fibers, opening up the possibility of building ultra-fast computers. The studies are published in Optics Letters and on the arXiv preprint server. /news/2025-06-based-optical-fibers-potential-ultra.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:33:04 EDT news669465182 In the world of particle physics, where scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making waves with how they're increasing understanding of the most fundamental particles. Central to this exploration are parton distribution functions (PDFs). These complex mathematical models are crucial for predicting outcomes of high energy physics experiments that test the Standard Model of particle physics. /news/2025-06-decoding-high-energy-physics-ai.html General �鶹��Ժics Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:50:03 EDT news669040613 A research team led by Prof. Xie Pinhua from the Hefei Institutes of �鶹��Ժical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a novel prediction model for surface ozone concentration in the North China Plain (NCP) and Yangtze River Delta (YRD) regions. The model leverages a sequential convolutional long short-term memory network framework (CNN-LSTM) to integrate spatiotemporal meteorological features, addressing key limitations in existing forecasting methods. /news/2025-06-ai-powered-ozone-pollution.html Environment Fri, 13 Jun 2025 03:44:36 EDT news669005063 Research at the Quantum Systems Accelerator has been steadily breaking new ground, quickening the pace toward flexible, stable quantum computers with capabilities well beyond those of today's classical machines. /news/2025-06-ion-advances-ground-quantum.html Quantum �鶹��Ժics Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:33:05 EDT news668961181 One of the current hot research topics is the combination of two of the most recent technological breakthroughs: machine learning and quantum computing. /news/2025-06-quantum-machine-small-scale-photonic.html Optics & Photonics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 11:21:04 EDT news668686862 Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a machine learning framework that can predict with quantum-level accuracy how materials respond to electric fields, up to the scale of a million atoms—vastly accelerating simulations beyond quantum mechanical methods, which can model only a few hundred atoms at a time. /news/2025-06-electric-response-materials-million-atoms.html Condensed Matter Quantum �鶹��Ժics Mon, 09 Jun 2025 08:54:04 EDT news668678042 A research team from Skoltech, AIRI, Tomsk Polytechnic University, and Sber has proposed and tested an approach to predicting the modification of material properties. Artificial intelligence models that were pre-trained on a small amount of data enabled a significant increase in the calculation of the formation energies in possible configurations of higher tungsten boride doped with other metals. /news/2025-06-ai-metal-doped-compounds-mechanical.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:05:04 EDT news668336701 In a landscape full of clear blue lakes and deep green forests, it is the old redbrick buildings that tell the story of Tampere's industrial heritage. Former factories, which once housed machine and linen production, still dominate the architecture of this Finnish region. /news/2025-05-circles-europe-cities-regions-green.html Environment Fri, 30 May 2025 14:03:05 EDT news667832581 When children are dropped off at a school or daycare for the first time, there can be a lot of feelings and sometimes meltdowns caused by being separated from parents, meeting new people, and hearing new noises. Could the architecture of the room help to soothe at least some of the children's concerns? /news/2025-05-insulation-tiles-school-calm-crying.html Education Fri, 23 May 2025 14:40:01 EDT news667204082 When two-dimensional electron systems are subjected to magnetic fields at low temperatures, they can exhibit interesting states of matter, such as fractional quantum Hall liquids. These are exotic states of matter characterized by fractionalized excitations and the emergence of interesting topological phenomena. /news/2025-05-fermionic-neural-network-ground-state.html Condensed Matter Quantum �鶹��Ժics Thu, 22 May 2025 09:50:25 EDT news667126215 A new study introduces choice engineering—a powerful new way to guide decisions using math instead of guesswork. By applying carefully designed mathematical models, researchers found they could influence people's choices more effectively than relying on gut instincts or even traditional psychology. This discovery could pave the way for smarter, more ethical tools to improve decision-making in areas like education, health, and everyday life. /news/2025-05-intuition-mathematical-behavior.html Mathematics Social Sciences Mon, 19 May 2025 10:58:03 EDT news666871081 In the natural world—where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity—animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an underlying architecture that orders the movements of animals as they go about their very different lives. And it's more widespread than previously imagined. /news/2025-05-mammals-behavior-hints-underlying-architecture.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 16 May 2025 14:07:04 EDT news666623222 How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance mapping and imaging methods on other planets? This is what a study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a lone researcher investigated using machine learning models to enhance mapping and imaging capabilities from orbital images obtained from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX), which is currently orbiting Mars. /news/2025-05-advancing-martian-geology-machine-tools.html Planetary Sciences Fri, 16 May 2025 11:44:04 EDT news666614641 Ribonucleic acid, also called RNA, is a molecule present in all living cells. It plays a critical role in transmitting genetic instructions from DNA and creating proteins. With the power to execute a plethora of functions, the little RNA "messenger" has led to important innovations across therapeutics, diagnostics, and vaccines, and made us rethink our understanding of life itself. /news/2025-05-qa-generative-ai-technique-rna.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 14 May 2025 16:26:05 EDT news666458762 How can nanosatellites help advance lunar exploration and settlement? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a team of researchers from Grahaa Space in India investigated the pros, cons, and applications for using nanosatellites on the moon. This study has the potential to help scientists, engineers, mission planners, and future lunar astronauts develop and test new technologies for advancing lunar exploration, and possibly beyond the moon. /news/2025-05-harnessing-nanosatellite-technology-lunar-infrastructure.html Space Exploration Thu, 01 May 2025 09:38:04 EDT news665311082 In the future, quantum computers could rapidly simulate new materials or help scientists develop faster machine‐learning models, opening the door to many new possibilities. /news/2025-04-advance-fault-tolerant-quantum.html Optics & Photonics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:00:01 EDT news665134397 Artificial intelligence is driving a seismic shift in how we approach weather forecasting, with a flurry of new AI weather prediction models debuting in recent years that have a number of potential advantages over traditional models. These include faster speeds, reduced demand for computing resources, and improved forecast performance for some weather phenomena, especially over longer time periods. /news/2025-04-platform-barriers-artificial-intelligence-weather.html Environment Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:09:05 EDT news665143741 In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, color-changing responsive materials and paving the way for novel applications like smart textiles and advanced robotics. /news/2025-03-3d-method-materials-smart-textiles.html Materials Science Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:53:04 EDT news662651581 Researchers from São Paulo State University (UNESP), at its Tupã campus in Brazil, have developed and tested a new geospatial intelligence methodology that can contribute more quickly and accurately to land use management and territorial planning projects. /news/2025-03-geospatial-intelligence-methodology-accurate-faster.html Biotechnology Agriculture Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:48:04 EDT news662305681