/ 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. Spintronics is an emerging field that leverages the spin, or the intrinsic angular momentum, of electrons. By harnessing this quantum-relativistic property, researchers aim to develop devices that store and transmit information faster, more efficiently, and at higher data densities, potentially making devices much smaller than what is possible today. These advances could drive next-generation memory, sensors, and even quantum technologies. /news/2025-09-advanced-ray-technique-enables-magnon.html Condensed Matter Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:39:06 EDT news676726742 A new study from Aarhus University shows that our cells' ability to clean out old protein clumps, known as aggregates, also includes a—up till now unknown—partnership with an engine that breaks down bigger pieces into smaller before "taking it to the trash." An important find for future treatments of diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS and Huntington's, which are all characterized by the accumulation of protein in the brain. /news/2025-09-newly-cell-machinery-protein-aggregates.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:20:03 EDT news676653601 Metal oxides are abundant in nature and central to technologies such as photocatalysis and photovoltaics. Yet, many suffer from poor electrical conduction, caused by strong repulsion between electrons in neighboring metal atoms. /news/2025-09-insulators-pulses-unfreeze-electrons.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:19:03 EDT news676556341 Researchers at National Taiwan University designed a graphene oxide biochar TiO2 nanocomposite that combines adsorption capacity with superior photocatalytic activity. With strong material characterization and optoelectronic properties, it offers a novel and sustainable solution for antibiotic removal from livestock wastewater. /news/2025-09-reusable-nanocomposite-adsorption-photocatalysis-advanced.html Nanomaterials Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:16:03 EDT news676552561 Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (MATBG) is a material created by stacking two sheets of graphene onto each other, with a small twist angle of about 1.1°. At this "magic angle," electrons move very slowly, which can lead to the emergence of highly correlated electron states. /news/2025-09-hofstadter-butterfly-bilayer-graphene-reveals.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:20:07 EDT news676548681 Seventy years ago, in Osmond Laboratory on Penn State's University Park campus, Erwin W. Müller, Evan Pugh Research Professor of Â鶹ÒùÔºics, became the first person to "see" an atom. In doing so, Müller cemented his legacy, not only at Penn State, but also as a pioneer in the world of physics and beyond. /news/2025-09-atoms-ja-physics-key-microscopy.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:50:01 EDT news676297442 Two-dimensional nanomaterials only a few atoms thick are being explored for a range of critical applications in biomedicine, electronics, nanodevices, energy storage and other areas, especially to enhance performance in extreme environments and ultra-demanding conditions. /news/2025-09-2d-nanomaterials-metals-extreme-conditions.html Nanomaterials Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:19:04 EDT news676297138 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Â鶹ÒùÔºics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are exploring a new approach to producing food on demand with unconventional materials. Through the Feedstocks for Food Production (FFP) project, APL is investigating ways to grow edible microbial food by harnessing nonpotable water. /news/2025-09-provisions-pond-leverage-biomanufacturing-food.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:30:03 EDT news676214856 Abiotic organic synthesis during geological processes has long drawn scientific interest, as it is believed to have laid both the material and energetic groundwork for the emergence of early life on Earth. /news/2025-09-iron-laden-fluids-abiotic-synthesis.html Earth Sciences Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:10:04 EDT news676206145 What do we know about the last hunter-gatherers who lived in West Africa? While these prehistoric populations have been extensively studied in Europe and Asia, their presence in this vast region—covering 6 million square kilometers, more than ten times the size of France—remains poorly documented. /news/2025-09-discovery-year-hunter-tools-senegal.html Archaeology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:47:04 EDT news676198021 Just one year after NREL materials science researchers Matthew Hautzinger and Sage Bauers met to exchange notes on underexplored materials in nanotechnology, their synthesis of promising Zintl-phase quantum dots is attracting attention with its bright photoluminescent glow, chemical stability, and Earth-abundant ingredients. /news/2025-09-built-brilliance-zintl-phase-quantum.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:14:04 EDT news676196041 For the first time, a study maps safe areas that can practically be used for underground carbon storage, and estimates that using them all would only cut warming by 0.7°C. The result is almost ten times lower than previous estimates of around 6°C, which considered the total global potential for geological storage, including in risky zones, where storing carbon could trigger earthquakes and contaminate drinking water supplies. The researchers say the study shows that geological storage is a scarce, finite resource, and warn that countries must use it in a highly targeted way. /news/2025-09-safe-underground-carbon-storage-07c.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:24 EDT news676047302 The spread of the Slavs stands as one of the most formative yet least understood events in European history. Starting in the 6th century CE, Slavic groups began to appear in the written records of Byzantine and Western sources, settling lands from the Baltic to the Balkans, and from the Elbe to the Volga. Yet, in stark contrast to the famous migrations of Germanic tribes like the Goths or Langobards or the legendary conquests of the Huns, the Slavic story has long been a difficult puzzle for historians of the European Middle Ages. /news/2025-09-slavic-migration-reshaped-central-eastern.html Archaeology Wed, 03 Sep 2025 11:00:20 EDT news675958384 Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel framework for understanding and controlling the flow behavior of granular hydrogels—a class of material made up of densely packed, microscopic gel particles with promising applications in medicine, 3D bioprinting, and tissue repair. /news/2025-09-advanced-granular-hydrogel-mechanics-biomedical.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:18:04 EDT news676052281 Researchers from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have collaborated with the SILVACX project group at Heidelberg University to develop a therapeutic vaccination concept that can mobilize the immune system to target cancer cells. The team showed that virus peptides coupled to silica nanoparticles can elicit effective T-cell responses against HPV-related tumors. In a mouse model, the nanoparticle-based vaccine was able to partially or completely suppress HPV-related tumors. /news/2025-09-therapeutic-vaccination-hpv-tumors-nanoparticles.html Bio & Medicine Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:33:37 EDT news676042413 How can data be processed at lightning speed, or electricity conducted without loss? To achieve this, scientists and industry alike are turning to quantum materials, governed by the laws of the infinitesimal. Designing such materials requires a detailed understanding of atomic phenomena, much of which remains unexplored. /news/2025-09-quantum-curvature-warps-electron-hinting.html Condensed Matter Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:37:18 EDT news676024629 Like bees breathing life into gardens, providing pollen and making flowers blossom, little cellular machines called mitochondria breathe life into our bodies, buzzing with energy as they produce the fuel that powers each of our cells. Maintaining mitochondrial metabolism requires input from many molecules and proteins—some of which have yet to be discovered. /news/2025-08-microprotein-metabolic-health-mouse-fat.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:07:06 EDT news675778017 Some 14,000 years ago, algal blooms in the Southern Ocean helped to massively reduce the global carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere—as has now been revealed by new analyses of ancient DNA published by a team from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in the journal Nature Geoscience. In the ocean around the Antarctic continent, these algal blooms had a significant impact on global carbon dynamics. The current and expected future decline in sea ice in this region now poses a serious threat to these algae, which could incur global consequences. /news/2025-08-microalgae-significant-co8322-absorption-southern.html Earth Sciences Environment Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:56:04 EDT news675694561 In their quest to explore and characterize high-temperature superconductors, physicists have mostly focused on a material that is not the absolute highest. That's because that crystal is much easier to split into uniform, easily measurable samples. But in 2024, researchers found a way to grow good crystals that are very similar to the highest temperature superconductor. /news/2025-08-uncovering-mysteries-high-temperature-cuprate.html Superconductivity Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:52:45 EDT news675679960 The sun will someday die. This will happen when it runs out of hydrogen fuel in its core and can no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion as it does now. The death of the sun is often thought of as the end of the solar system. But in reality, it may be the beginning of a new phase of life for all the objects living in the solar system. /news/2025-08-earth-size-stars-alien-oceans.html Astrobiology Planetary Sciences Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:46:04 EDT news675614761 Components of a NASA technology that could one day help crew and cargo enter harsh planetary environments, like that of Mars, are taking an extended trip to space courtesy of the United States Space Force. /news/2025-08-nasa-aeroshell-material-space.html Space Exploration Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:06:03 EDT news675597961 Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild, according to an international team of researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientist. The critically endangered primates outshine modern humans in avoiding obesity through their balanced choices of food and exercise, the scientists found. /news/2025-08-feast-famine-orangutans-flexible-diets.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:00:20 EDT news675502261 Reactions are typically driven by heat. However, in recent years, light has also established itself as an energy source, as it allows chemical reactions to be controlled with exceptional precision. This process is known as photochemistry. /news/2025-08-common-metal-unusual-power-manganese.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:50:03 EDT news675514201 The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts. /news/2025-08-metals-martian-dirt.html Space Exploration Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:58:05 EDT news675406682 In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from those samples were studied at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), revealing new details into the asteroid's composition and origin. This insight could ultimately help answer big questions about how water and organic matter came to exist on early Earth, forming the building blocks of life. /news/2025-08-ryugu-asteroid-reveals-mineral-history.html Astrobiology Planetary Sciences Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:41:42 EDT news675348096 The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been involved as part of an international collaboration that has identified a way to completely suppress superconductivity in superconducting and ferromagnetic junctions. The results published in Nature Communications are key to the development of non-volatile superconducting random access memories and could enable more energy-efficient information and communication technologies. /news/2025-08-absolute-superconducting-magnetic-device.html Condensed Matter Superconductivity Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:30:01 EDT news675345591 Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots—semiconductor nanoparticles critical for next-generation displays, solar cells, LEDs and quantum-engineering technologies. /news/2025-08-rainbow-multi-robot-lab-quantum.html Nanomaterials Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:13:03 EDT news675335581 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet—comparable to a grain of sand—and containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. /news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine-1.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:11 EDT news674983864 Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely miniaturized nanodroplets with a volume of only 200 nanoliters per droplet—comparable to a grain of sand—and containing only 300 cells per test can be arranged. /news/2025-08-nanodroplets-medicine.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:31:07 EDT news674983861 Researchers can use a metric called the particle number concentration (PNC) to calculate the number of particles in a sample, such as the number of marbles in a jar. /news/2025-08-formula-accuracy-particle-diverse-samples.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:57:34 EDT news674960249