/ 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. 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 Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 22 May 2025 09:50:25 EDT news667126215 An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The newfound GEMS, designated TOI-5573 b, is comparable in size to Saturn and its mass is estimated to be 0.35 Jupiter masses. The findings were detailed in a research paper published May 13 on the arXiv preprint server. /news/2025-05-gems-world-astronomers-saturn-exoplanet.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 22 May 2025 08:10:02 EDT news667063296 The clean energy transition requires new means to transport energy that are less reliant on burning fossil fuels. This requires new materials to catalyze reactions to store and extract energy from chemical energy carriers without combustion. /news/2025-05-tool-stable-metal-frameworks-energy.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 21 May 2025 14:54:04 EDT news667058042 As core components for generating coherent tunable radiation sources in all-solid-state lasers, second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals have demonstrated significant technical advantages in many fields. Metal chalcogenides with tetrahedral cluster (Tn) as the structural unit are regarded as candidate systems for NLO materials of the mid- and far-infrared bands due to their potential strong second-harmonic-generation (SHG) response and wide infrared transmission range. /news/2025-05-inorganic-polycations-widening-infrared-transparency.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 21 May 2025 14:37:03 EDT news667057022 With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used the high-performance laser DIPOLE 100-X at the European XFEL for the first time in 2023. With spectacular results: In this initial experiment they managed to study liquid carbon—an unprecedented achievement as the researchers report in the journal Nature. /news/2025-05-liquid-carbon.html Plasma Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 21 May 2025 14:17:04 EDT news667055822 Polyethylene and polypropylene account for two-thirds of the world's plastics. But the polymers' popularity has an equally large downside. Because they have similar densities and physical properties, the polymers are difficult—and expensive—to separate when mechanically recycled together. What results is a weak, degraded material that really isn't good for anything. /news/2025-05-happy-peroxide-incompatible-polymers-recycling.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Tue, 20 May 2025 12:52:28 EDT news666964343 Researchers have improved upon techniques that use thin films to compress infrared light, demonstrating three advantages that make the films more useful for practical applications. The researchers have proven that the "squeezed" infrared light can propagate at least four times farther than previously shown; that the technology can "squeeze" a wider range of infrared wavelengths than previously demonstrated; and that the thin films can be integrated onto a variety of substrate materials and shapes. /news/2025-05-infrared-wavelengths-thin.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 19 May 2025 13:33:04 EDT news666880381 Conventional MRI scans, familiar to us from hospitals, have a resolution of about one-tenth of a millimeter, which allows them to image incredibly thin slices of our bodies from head to toe, helping physicians diagnose a variety of medical conditions. Even this ultra-high resolution, however, is insufficient for researchers who want to study the structure of individual molecules. /news/2025-05-mri-nano-sized.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 19 May 2025 11:17:04 EDT news666872221 Tracking the sources of photons is a hobby of many astrophysicists. Some types of photons are tied so closely to particular phenomena that tracking their sources would help answer some larger questions in astrophysics itself. /news/2025-05-tracking-annihilation-photons-unique-binary.html Astronomy Planetary Sciences Fri, 16 May 2025 11:54:03 EDT news666615241 This year 80 people put on their waders, grabbed buckets and quadrats (square metal frames), and splashed through the clear shallow waters. Once they reached one of the many sampling locations, marked by miniature floats, they threw their quadrats into the shallow water, ready to collect all the sea life that landed inside their quadrats. /news/2025-05-denmark-oysters-foodies-citizen-scientists.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 16 May 2025 06:37:05 EDT news666596222 Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new approach that directly combats the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). /news/2025-05-sugar-coated-nanotherapy-neuron-survival.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 14 May 2025 08:00:04 EDT news666347288 As industries seek innovative solutions for carbon capture, scientists have turned to advanced materials that efficiently trap and store carbon dioxide (COâ‚‚) from industrial emissions. /news/2025-05-carbon-physical-probing-material.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 13 May 2025 11:20:04 EDT news666353430 The architecture of northern Iran exhibits an extroverted quality. Buildings are designed to let in the sounds of rain, birds and rustling trees, as well as scents of nature. /news/2025-05-extroverted-north-introverted-south-climate.html Environment Tue, 13 May 2025 09:04:04 EDT news666345841 Sphalerite is a very cool mineral. It is a beautiful, complex and diverse zinc sulfide (ZnS) mineral that also hosts a treasure trove of other critical elements. These include manganese, cadmium, mercury, indium, thallium, gallium, germanium, antimony, tin, lead, silver and cobalt. /news/2025-05-sphalerite-treasure-trove-critical-elements.html Earth Sciences Tue, 13 May 2025 08:46:04 EDT news666344762 Researchers led by the University of Glasgow in Scotland have identified a Late Upper Paleolithic site in the far north of the Isle of Skye, marking the most northerly evidence of Ahrensburgian culture in Britain. /news/2025-05-discovery-ancient-culture-remote-scottish.html Archaeology Mon, 12 May 2025 09:10:02 EDT news666259594 X-ray imaging is indispensable in medical diagnostics and material characterization. To generate an image, a detector converts X-rays that pass through the object into electrical signals. Higher detector sensitivity enables lower radiation doses, which is particularly important in medical applications. /news/2025-05-bismuth-based-hybrid-materials-enable.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Fri, 09 May 2025 13:31:03 EDT news666016261 Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image—has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics. The phenomenon is sometimes called "handedness," because it refers to an object possessing a distinct left- or right-handed form. It is a universal quality that is found across various scales of nature, from molecules and amino acids to the famed double-helix of DNA and the spiraling patterns of snail shells. /news/2025-05-physicists-unusual-chiral-quantum-state.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 07 May 2025 16:46:04 EDT news665855161 What do chickens and people with a common reproductive disorder have in common? More than one might think—and a widely-used diabetes medication might just be the surprising link. /news/2025-05-common-diabetes-drug-aging-hens.html Veterinary medicine Agriculture Wed, 07 May 2025 15:57:04 EDT news665852221 Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have uncovered an unexpected interface layer that may be hindering the performance of superconducting qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers. /news/2025-05-scientists-reveal-hidden-interface-superconducting.html Superconductivity Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 06 May 2025 10:00:04 EDT news665743815 An international team has succeeded at BESSY II for the first time to elucidate how ultrafast spin-polarized current pulses can be characterized by measuring the ultrafast demagnetization in a magnetic layer system within the first hundreds of femtoseconds. /news/2025-05-ultrafast-polarized-current-pulses-magnetic.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Mon, 05 May 2025 11:50:03 EDT news665664601 Origami—the Japanese art of folding paper—could be the next frontier in innovative materials. Practiced in Japan since the early 1600s, origami involves combining simple folding techniques to create intricate designs. Now, Georgia Tech researchers are leveraging the technique as the foundation for next-generation materials that can both act as a solid and predictably deform, "folding" under the right forces. The research could lead to innovations in everything from heart stents to airplane wings and running shoes. /news/2025-05-class-materials-origami.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 05 May 2025 11:15:59 EDT news665662549 Swarms of earthquakes have been jolting southern Italy with increasing intensity since 2022, threatening hundreds of thousands of people living atop a volcanic area known as Campi Flegrei, where the land experiences slow vertical movements. /news/2025-05-scientists-key-earthquake-italy-campi.html Earth Sciences Fri, 02 May 2025 14:00:01 EDT news665394181 A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) Freixial Formation in the Ulsa quarry, Portugal. /news/2025-05-jurassic-mammalian-fossil-unusual-tooth.html Paleontology & Fossils Thu, 01 May 2025 10:10:06 EDT news665312066 A research team at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR) has developed a new technique to rapidly and accurately determine the charge state of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots—fundamental components of quantum computing systems. The method is based on Bayesian inference, a statistical framework that estimates the most likely state of a system using observed data. /news/2025-05-bayesian-inference-enables-rapid-quantum.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 01 May 2025 09:52:03 EDT news665311921 A study published in Science Advances by Professor Janusz LewiÅ„ski's research group at the Institute of Â鶹ÒùÔºical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Warsaw University of Technology unveils a transformative strategy for stabilizing and analyzing highly reactive organozinc compounds—offering a safer, more practical approach for chemists worldwide. /news/2025-04-encapsulating-organometallic-compounds-crystalline-sponge.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:40:22 EDT news665246413 Magnetars are among the rarest—and weirdest—denizens of the galactic zoo. They have powerful magnetic fields and may be the source of fast radio bursts (FRBs). A team of astronomers led by European Space Agency researcher Ashley Chrimes recently used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to track one of these monsters called SGR 0501+4516 (SGR0501, for short, and SGR stands for Soft Gamma Repeater). It's whipping through the Milky Way at a rate as high as 65 kilometers per second. The big challenge was to find its birthplace and figure out its origin. /news/2025-04-hubble-magnetar-milky.html Astronomy Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:18:03 EDT news665245081 Photocatalytic hydrogen production technology represents one of the most significant approaches for addressing the energy crisis and environmental pollution. Cadmium sulfide (CdS), with its appropriate bandgap and adjustable surface structure, has been extensively utilized in photocatalytic hydrogen production. /news/2025-04-scheme-heterojunction-photocatalytic-hydrogen-evolution.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:58:03 EDT news665243881 Wurtzite-structured crystals, characterized by their hexagonal symmetry, are widely valued for their unique electronic and piezoelectric properties—their ability to generate an electric charge when subjected to mechanical stress. Among these, gallium nitride (GaN), a key material in blue light-emitting diodes, and aluminum nitride (AlN), used in high-frequency radio frequency (RF) filters in smartphones, are prominent examples. These materials play a crucial role in advanced semiconductors, sensors, and actuators. /news/2025-04-wurtzite-mgsin-thin-electronic-properties.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:17:04 EDT news665241421 Viruses are microscopic pathogens composed of genetic material housed within a protective protein shell. While they carry the blueprint required for producing additional viral proteins, they lack the equipment needed for the same. For this, they hijack host cells and rely on their machinery for multiplication. /news/2025-04-herpesvirus-protein-mimics-host-enzyme.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:06:03 EDT news665240761 Recently, a research team achieved real-time tracking of electronic/magnetic structure evolution in Li-rich Mn-based materials during the initial cycling through the self-developed operando magnetism characterization device. /news/2025-04-real-magnetic-tracking-reveals-oxygen.html Condensed Matter Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:30:01 EDT news665227322