/ 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. Picture this: You're on a Zoom call, Slack is buzzing, three spreadsheets are open and your inbox pings. In that moment of divided attention, you miss the tiny red flag in an email. That's how phishing sneaks through, and with 3.4 billion malicious emails sent daily, the stakes couldn't be higher. /news/2025-10-multitasking-fall-phishing-emails.html Economics & Business Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:30:01 EDT news679289088 New research from the University of Kansas asks if mental health issues like depression and anxiety are associated with specific charges faced by juveniles incarcerated in the United States. /news/2025-10-criminal-mental-health-incarcerated-youth.html Social Sciences Political science Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:17:04 EDT news679144622 Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures composed of small structures that spontaneously arrange themselves following specific patterns. Some of these architectures are based on so-called icosahedral shells, structures with 20 different triangular faces that are symmetrically organized. /news/2025-10-algorithm-reveals-magic-sizes-programmable.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:30:02 EDT news679054911 Imagine tiny machines, smaller than a virus, spinning inside cancer cells and rewiring their behavior from within. No surgery, no harsh chemicals, just precision at the molecular level. /news/2025-10-molecular-motors-invasive-cancer-therapies.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:00:03 EDT news678973439 A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living robots may one day be able to traverse through the body's complex environments to deliver desired therapeutic or mechanical interventions, once greater control is achieved over their motility patterns. In new research published in Science Advances, the group provides a novel tissue engineering platform capable of achieving customizable motility in AggreBots by actively controlling their structural parameters. /news/2025-09-aggrebots-tiny-robots-lung-cells.html Biotechnology Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:17:40 EDT news678176253 The yeast fungus Candida albicans not only uses the toxin candidalysin to cause infections, but also to colonize the oral mucosa inconspicuously—but only in finely balanced amounts. Too little toxin prevents oral colonization, too much triggers the immune system and leads to an inflammatory defense reaction, as an international research team from Zurich, Jena, and Paris discovered. /news/2025-09-finely-fungal-toxin-production-albicans.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:17:04 EDT news678104221 Many Canadians over the age of 40 likely remember spending their childhoods playing on the street and moving around their communities on their own or with friends. And, according to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 11, cities should in fact be places where all residents, including children, can thrive—they have as much right to occupy and use urban streets as motorists do. /news/2025-09-cars-kids-resistance-limits-children.html Social Sciences Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:30:01 EDT news678032200 A research team has successfully developed a self-locked Raman-electro-optic (REO) microcomb on a single lithium niobate chip. By synergistically harnessing the electro-optic (EO), Kerr, and Raman effects within one microresonator, the microcomb has a spectral width exceeding 300 nm and a repetition rate of 26.03 GHz, without the need for external electronic feedback. /news/2025-09-microcomb-chip-raman-broad-spectrum.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:55:19 EDT news677861716 A team of researchers from the Soft Robotics for Human Cooperation and Rehabilitation Lab at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) in Genova has conceived and developed Frasky, a new robotic prototype able to navigate and perform operations autonomously within vineyards. /news/2025-09-robot-vineyard-applications.html Biotechnology Agriculture Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:16:05 EDT news677409361 University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Engineering researchers are exploring a surprising ally in the fight against toxic "forever chemicals." Scientists in the labs of Rajib Saha and Nirupam Aich have discovered that a common photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, can interact with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), one of the most persistent types of PFAS chemicals. /news/2025-09-team-potential-bacterial-solution-chemicals.html Biochemistry Materials Science Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:11:03 EDT news676887061 A new study finds that auditors of financial statements are less likely to follow up on "red flags" identified by data analytics if the auditors did not play a role in developing the relevant analytical tests. The researchers also identified a low-cost intervention that significantly improves auditor performance when using auditing tools they did not help develop. /news/2025-09-auditors-tech-based-fraud.html Economics & Business Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:41:04 EDT news676809662 Despite their importance to water security and their legal protection, diffuse seeps—which are primarily responsible for the formation of wetlands in Brazil's Cerrado savanna biome—continue to be systematically neglected by public policies, environmental consultants, rural landowners, and regulatory agencies. A group of Brazilian researchers points to the disconnect between technical and legal language as one of the main causes of this institutional invisibility. /news/2025-09-cerrado-wetlands-legally-neglected.html Ecology Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:04:04 EDT news676656241 Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to "maximize extraction" of the UK's oil and gas from the North Sea as a "common sense" energy policy. /news/2025-09-politicians-climate-pragmatism-delay-action.html Environment Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:00:01 EDT news676284913 Autophagy—meaning "self-eating" in Greek—is a fundamental cellular mechanism that preserves cell health by recycling and degrading worn-out or dysfunctional components. Serving as an essential housekeeping process, autophagy also plays a key role in strengthening immunity, mobilizing when cells encounter stressors such as starvation or infection to eliminate bacteria, viruses, and other threats. /news/2025-09-uncovering-cells-picky-eaters-team.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:07:04 EDT news676224421 The notion of a phased array was initially articulated by Nobel Prize recipient K. F. Braun. Phased arrays have subsequently evolved into a formidable mechanism for wave manipulation. This assertion holds particularly true in the realm of ultrasound, wherein arrays composed of ultrasound-generating transducers are employed in various applications, including therapeutic ultrasound, tissue engineering, and particle manipulation. /news/2025-09-programmable-dynamic-ultrasound-wavefront.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:20:03 EDT news676109640 What if plants could speak when they were thirsty? Agriculture, in essence, is a dialog among crops, soil and climate. Yet drought, the most insidious stressor, remains largely silent until its damage is visible. /news/2025-08-ai-simple-images-early-drought.html Biotechnology Agriculture Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:53:40 EDT news675680013 Mortalities at poisoned carcasses significantly contribute to the population decline of many vulture species. As vultures employ social strategies and follow each other in their search for food, one poisoned carcass can kill hundreds of individuals of endangered species such as the white-backed vulture. /news/2025-08-tagging-vultures-reveal-carcass-poisoning.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:15:05 EDT news675443701 A new Arizona State University study reveals the extent to which sewage pollution threatens the fragile coral reef ecosystems of west HawaiÊ»i Island. /news/2025-08-airborne-field-sampling-expose-sewage.html Environment Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:10:01 EDT news675442885 Summer is the time for sunshine, but Americans have been getting a surplus of heat this summer, with millions of people across the Southeast recently facing a blistering heat wave with heat indexes, or feels-like temperatures, reaching into triple digits. /news/2025-08-science-homeowners-extreme-weather.html Environment Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:36:57 EDT news675419809 Early in his eight-year tenure, in 2017, then Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo declared a moratorium on all small-scale gold mining. He established an inter-ministerial committee on illegal mining and a joint military-police taskforce—Operation Vanguard—to enforce the ban. /news/2025-08-ghana-war-illegal.html Environment Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:50:02 EDT news674736585 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 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 It's summer, and it's been hot, even in northern cities such as Boston. But not everyone is hit with the heat in the same way, even within the same neighborhood. /news/2025-08-urban-island-street-hotter-neighbor.html Environment Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:29:31 EDT news674144964 In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or improved functions is crucial, but current methods are often slow and laborious. Now, Scripps Research scientists have developed a synthetic biology platform that accelerates evolution itself—enabling researchers to evolve proteins with useful, new properties thousands of times faster than nature. /news/2025-08-scientists-evolution-rapidly-reprogram-proteins.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:27:05 EDT news673860421 A new study co-written by a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign expert who studies occupational stress and employee well-being sheds light on the different profiles of intervention behaviors bystanders may exhibit when they witness workplace sexual harassment. /news/2025-08-clusters-bystander-interventions-workplace-sexual.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:39:30 EDT news673789165 Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) is a stealthy threat. It infects more than 500,000 people in the United States each year, and kills up to 30,000. It is a leading cause of health-care-associated infections, particularly in hospitals and long-term care facilities. But not everyone who harbors C. diff gets sick—as many as 30–40% of the population carries this bug in their guts. /news/2025-08-hidden-killer-diff.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:00:15 EDT news673602961 A smartphone-controlled ingestible capsule that can control and allow for two-way communication with gut bacteria in pigs is reported in Nature Microbiology. The findings could lay the foundation for new diagnostic and treatment strategies for diseases such as colitis. /news/2025-07-gut-bugs-app.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 29 Jul 2025 16:04:28 EDT news673023834 Florida's Avon Park bombing range is teeming with life. Over 40 at-risk species occupy this 106,000-acre expanse used by the U.S. Air Force for training exercises. /news/2025-07-translocated-woodpeckers-florida-range-boosting.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:10:01 EDT news672937296 Quantum batteries (QBs) are energy storage devices that could serve as an alternative to classical batteries, potentially charging faster and enabling the extraction of more energy. In contrast with existing batteries, these batteries leverage effects rooted in quantum mechanics, such as entanglement and superposition. /news/2025-07-scheme-mitigates-discharging-quantum-batteries.html Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:00:01 EDT news672491889 Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's underground mycorrhizal fungal communities. /news/2025-07-underground-reveal-mycorrhizal-fungal-biodiversity.html Plants & Animals Ecology Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:00:11 EDT news672467737