/ 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. In a first for the field, researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported a photopumped lasing from a buried dielectric photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser emitting at room temperature and an eye-safe wavelength. Their findings, published in IEEE Photonics Journal, improve upon current laser design and open new avenues for defense applications. /news/2025-07-room-temperature-lasing-photonic-crystal.html Optics & Photonics Sat, 12 Jul 2025 06:21:58 EDT news671520111 Cleaning products, candles, cribs, and cosmetics are just a few of the common household items that emit formaldehyde, a colorless, odorless chemical that, when present in the air at levels higher than 0.1 parts per million, has been found to be a risk to human health. /news/2025-07-polymer-coating-life-mxene-based.html Nanomaterials Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:00:01 EDT news671278376 New research has found increasing levels of artificial sweeteners in wastewater treatment plants, with downstream impacts on the environment. /news/2025-07-artificial-sweeteners-bitter-aftertaste-environment.html Environment Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:31:35 EDT news671448689 Coordination nanosheets are a unique class of two-dimensional (2D) materials that are formed by coordination bonds between planar organic ligands and metal ions. These 2D nanomaterials are increasingly utilized in energy storage, electronic devices, and as electrode-based catalysts due to their excellent electronic, optical, redox properties, and catalytic activity. /news/2025-07-heterometallic-nanosheets-multiple-metal-ions.html Nanomaterials Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:40:13 EDT news671444466 A multinational research team, including engineers from the University of Cambridge and Zhejiang University, has developed a breakthrough in miniaturized spectrometer technology that could dramatically expand the accessibility and functionality of spectral imaging in everyday devices. /news/2025-07-plastic-based-spectrometers-compact-solution.html Optics & Photonics Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:15:51 EDT news671444135 Imagine going through a surgery where the doctor proposes the use of a temporary implant that dissolves by itself with time in the human body, thereby avoiding a painful second surgery. As great as that would sound, the challenges are plenty when it comes to designing an implant that has mechanical properties close to that of the human bone, is biocompatible and degrades at an appreciable rate till the bone heals. /news/2025-07-retarding-corrosion-magnesium-alloy-polymer.html Polymers Materials Science Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:07:42 EDT news671443656 A new palladium-loaded amorphous InGaZnOx (a-IGZO) catalyst achieved over 91% selectivity when converting carbon dioxide to methanol, report researchers from Japan. /news/2025-07-semiconductor-catalyst-high-carbon-dioxide.html Materials Science Fri, 11 Jul 2025 06:09:20 EDT news671432953 Over just two hours, the Guadalupe River at Comfort, Texas, rose from hip-height to three stories tall, sending water weighing as much as the Empire State building downstream roughly every minute it remained at its crest. /news/2025-07-texas.html Environment Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:10:49 EDT news671425844 A new coating for glass developed by Rice University researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially during the cold season, by preventing heat-loss from leaky windows. The material—a transparent film made by weaving carbon into the atomic lattice of boron nitride—forms a thin, tough layer that reflects heat, resists scratches and shrugs off moisture, UV light and temperature swings. /news/2025-07-boron-nitride-coating-glass-loss.html Materials Science Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:37:19 EDT news671384233 A charcoal-like material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors could be a cheap, sustainable way to keep pollution from washing off roadways and into Georgia's lakes and rivers. /news/2025-07-biochar-naturally-pollution-georgia-roads.html Environment Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:50:07 EDT news671381310 Researchers have developed a wireless implantable drug delivery system that enables anticancer drugs to penetrate deep into solid tumors—without harming surrounding healthy tissue. The multidisciplinary team, led by experts in materials science, bioelectronics, and pharmaceutical engineering, offers a new strategy to enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy while minimizing side effects. /news/2025-07-wireless-implant-chemotherapy-deep-tumors.html Bio & Medicine Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:10:04 EDT news671373460 Catastrophic floods can be difficult to prepare for. Sometimes evacuation is the right call, but if it's too late the best bet is to find higher ground nearby. The stakes can be high, because a flash flood may give those in its path only minutes or seconds to react. /news/2025-07-major.html Environment Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:10:01 EDT news671374589 Researchers at NYU Tandon have developed a new method for synthesizing metallic glass nanoparticles that offers refined control over size, composition, and atomic structure—features long sought in the design of advanced catalytic materials used in chemical reactions key to advancements in sustainability and other fields. /news/2025-07-tunable-metallic-glass-nanoparticles-catalysis.html Nanomaterials Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:37:17 EDT news671373433 Caltech scientists have found a fast and efficient way to add up large numbers of Feynman diagrams, the simple drawings physicists use to represent particle interactions. The new method has already enabled the researchers to solve a longstanding problem in the materials science and physics worlds known as the polaron problem, giving scientists and engineers a way to predict how electrons will flow in certain materials, both conventional and quantum. /news/2025-07-adding-feynman-diagrams-real-materials.html General �鶹��Ժics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:32:55 EDT news671373170 Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That's larger than the width of a U.K. soccer field and nearly eight times wider than the James Webb Space Telescope. Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space. This might sound like science fiction, but it's the cutting-edge concept behind the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE), a joint NASA-Technion project that could revolutionize how we explore the universe. /news/2025-07-giant-liquid-mirrors-revolutionize-habitable.html Astronomy Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:40:03 EDT news671365288 A new real-time monitoring system captures minute-by-minute changes in toxic metals resulting from traffic pollution. Research indicates that non-exhaust sources, including brake wear, significantly contribute to urban health risks. /news/2025-07-real-reveals-hidden-urban-air.html Earth Sciences Environment Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:19:35 EDT news671365171 The announcement that New Zealand's moa nunui (giant moa) is the next "de-extinction" target for Colossal Biosciences, in partnership with Canterbury Museum, the Ngāi Tahu Research Center and filmmaker Peter Jackson, caused widespread alarm among scientists. /news/2025-07-dire-wolf-nz-giant-moa.html Plants & Animals Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:19:21 EDT news671365156 A study published in npj Computational Materials presents a new AI system that uses computer vision and language processing to interpret complex polymer–solvent interactions such as swelling, gelation and dispersion from images and videos. /news/2025-07-ai-decode-polymersolvent-interactions-materials.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Thu, 10 Jul 2025 04:50:04 EDT news671341793 The graphite found in your favorite pencil could have instead been the diamond your mother always wears. What made the difference? Researchers are finding out. /news/2025-07-molecular-simulations-uncover-graphite-emerges.html Materials Science Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:57:56 EDT news671295472 With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports. /news/2025-07-room-temperature-maser-technology.html Optics & Photonics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 14:10:04 EDT news671288763 Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating entirely new phases of matter through simple geometric manipulation. The term "moiré" may sound familiar—it describes the strange rippling patterns you sometimes see when photographing striped shirts or screens; in physics, the same underlying principle applies at the atomic scale. Imagine taking two atomically thin sheets of either the same or different materials, stacking them up together, and rotating one layer slightly relative to the other. /news/2025-07-axis-platform-path-quantum-simulation.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:49:15 EDT news671284150 A research team led by Prof. Tian-Bao Ma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University has proposed a novel strategy to reduce friction and wear by inducing dynamic electronic density redistribution through the application of an alternating electric current. /news/2025-07-alternating-current-friction-redistributing-electronic.html General �鶹��Ժics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:49:00 EDT news671284130 Leiden researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps bacteria feed on everyday plastics. This common enzyme could play a crucial role in future research and eventually in addressing the global plastic crisis. The study is published in Nature Communications. /news/2025-07-newly-enzyme-play-crucial-role.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:54:04 EDT news671277242 Groundwater is declining across Eastern Washington's complex, interconnected aquifer system, as people draw on it for irrigation, drinking and other uses at a pace that threatens its sustainability, according to a new study by a Washington State University researcher. /news/2025-07-aquifer-decline-multiple-regions.html Earth Sciences Environment Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:40:04 EDT news671272802 New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue coloration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential capacity for color change. /news/2025-07-nanostructures-blue-sharks-reveal-remarkable.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Jul 2025 08:50:01 EDT news671267534 When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual element combining to become, for 40 years, the world's tallest building. Uptown at Columbia, Oleg Gang and his chemical engineering lab aren't building Art Deco architecture; their landmarks are incredibly small devices built from nanoscopic building blocks that arrange themselves. /news/2025-07-3d-material-dna.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:48:05 EDT news671262482 For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in various matter systems. These techniques allow for the controlled and reversible mapping of light particles called photons onto long-lived states of matter. But storing light for long periods without compromising its retrieval efficiency is a difficult task. /news/2025-07-stoichiometric-crystal-quantum-memory.html Optics & Photonics Quantum �鶹��Ժics Wed, 09 Jul 2025 06:36:03 EDT news671261761 Haozhe "Harry" Wang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at Duke University and an expert in developing new methods for manufacturing materials, continues to push the boundaries in MXene research. /news/2025-07-mxenes-gain-flexibility-precise-plasma.html Nanomaterials Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:29:14 EDT news671254146 In a hunt for more sustainable technologies, researchers are looking further into enabling two-dimensional materials in renewable energy that could lead to sustainable production of chemicals such as ammonia, which is used in fertilizer. /news/2025-07-mxenes-sustainable-ammonia-production.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:18:04 EDT news671210281 Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in billions of years. A research team has become the first in the world to successfully expand the range of ring-shaped backbones in proteins using ribosomes, which have traditionally only produced linear backbones. /news/2025-07-ribosomal-synthesis-cyclic-peptides-avenues.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:15:04 EDT news671210101