/ 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. For years we've been warned that technological advances and artificial intelligence (AI) are set to sweep people out of work. But when we think about whose jobs are really under threat, the answer isn't quite so simple. /news/2025-10-class-young-men-age-automation.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:39:04 EDT news679153142 Combing through 20 years of images from the European Space Agency's Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, scientists have tracked 1,039 tornado-like whirlwinds to reveal how dust is lifted into the air and swept around Mars's surface. /news/2025-10-mars-devils-revealing-faster.html Planetary Sciences Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:00:05 EDT news678988921 A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might sound like science fiction, researchers are taking a closer look at the biological and technological possibilities behind enhancing canine communication. /news/2025-10-dogs-science-ethics-evolution.html Evolution Biotechnology Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:59:03 EDT news679147141 The China National Space Administration's (CNSA) Tianwen-2 probe is currently at a distance of about 43 million km (26.7 million mi) from Earth. This places it in a stable geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and almost halfway between its first destination, the near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 469219 Kamo'oalewa, which is still 45 million km (~28 million mi) away. As is customary for interplanetary missions, its controllers are using the flight phase to test the spacecraft's instruments and make sure they are in working order. /news/2025-10-tianwen-probe-selfie-earth-china.html Space Exploration Planetary Sciences Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:03:03 EDT news679136582 Toy dolls are having a Halloween moment. And it's anything but pretty or cute. /news/2025-10-annabelle-chucky-dolls-general.html Social Sciences Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:19:04 EDT news679133941 A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky—such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing apart a passing star, a fast-moving asteroid, or a brief stellar flare from a compact star system—and explain its reasoning, without the need for complex training. /news/2025-10-ai-advance-astronomers-cosmic-events.html Astronomy Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:00:05 EDT news678984481 We have all been in that situation: The moving boxes are large and heavy, but we are determined to carry them all in one trip, even if that means we can't see where we're going. In the tropics, some leafcutter ants face a similar challenge: carrying a load that is several times their body weight. To make matters even more difficult, carrying oversized weights may create "blind spots" when leafcutter ants transport material on a trail. /news/2025-10-leafcutter-ants-truck-drivers.html Plants & Animals Ecology Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:27:04 EDT news679066022 We all need some space sometimes—but it's harder to find than you might think. How far into our universe do we have to go to reach somewhere truly empty? /news/2025-10-space-planet.html Space Exploration Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:47:03 EDT news679049221 Crews used large nets, water-filled containers and box trucks to relocate hundreds of river otters, sea turtles, manatees, penguins and sharks to their new home: Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium. /news/2025-10-florida-mote-marine-laboratory-relocates.html Ecology Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:41:52 EDT news679030901 Researchers have designed and demonstrated stretchable waveguides that maintain efficient, stable signal transmission of surface plasmon polaritons even when bent, twisted or stretched. These plasmonic waveguides could make it possible to seamlessly embed advanced sensing, communication and health monitoring functions into everyday wearable materials. /news/2025-10-stretchable-waveguides-stable-transmission-bent.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:28:03 EDT news678979681 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 Scientists at Heriot-Watt University have unlocked the secret behind how female sawflies make specific cuts to plants—a discovery that could revolutionize surgical instruments and dramatically reduce the cutting of healthy tissue during operations. /news/2025-10-smart-female-sawflies-surgery-patient.html Plants & Animals Ecology Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:08:05 EDT news678964081 From using moon rovers that encourage predators to hunt and forage in packs, to applying state-of-the-art algorithms to try and understand the facial expressions of Sumatran orangutans, artificial intelligence and robotics are giving zookeepers and researchers new insights into animal welfare. /news/2025-10-zoo-animals-wild-ai.html Plants & Animals Veterinary medicine Mon, 06 Oct 2025 09:52:04 EDT news678963122 New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the deep sea and hamper the ocean's ability to buffer against climate change. /news/2025-10-marine-reshape-ocean-food-webs.html Earth Sciences Environment Mon, 06 Oct 2025 05:00:05 EDT news678704462 Trawling restrictions not only benefit fish and shellfish; anemones and corals are also becoming more common, according to a new study from the University of Gothenburg. Twenty-six years of underwater videos from the depths of the Koster Sea also show long-term changes in the ecosystem as the water becomes warmer. /news/2025-10-unique-videos-trawling-restrictions-life.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:20:15 EDT news678701997 Imagine a farm in 2050. It's summer and solar radiation and humidity are peaking. Fruit picking machines hum and cooling mist sprays overhead. In the haze, a robot stands among the rows of fruit. It scans two strawberries—one red and ripe, the other still green. It hovers, hesitates, then makes its pick. /news/2025-10-hot-harvest-threatens-farm-labor.html Ecology Agriculture Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:28:07 EDT news678695281 As people embrace ChatGPT and other large language models, University of Michigan anthropologist Webb Keane says it's easy for people to imbue AI with a human, or even god-like, authority. /news/2025-10-anthropologist-artificial-intelligence-authority.html Social Sciences Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:06:04 EDT news678693961 The 2008 film Wall-E depicted Earth as a post-apocalyptic wasteland with nothing on it but the abandoned remnants of human society and a forlorn, trash-compacting robot. The titular robot's only living company is a surprisingly adorable pet cockroach named Hal, Pixar's nod to the popular myth that cockroaches will outlive us all. /news/2025-10-cockroaches-survive-nuclear-apocalypse.html Plants & Animals Ecology Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:02:06 EDT news678693722 Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN have highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and verified via remote telescopes before confirmation. Another recent find also shows what's possible, as devoted amateur astronomer Filipp Romanov has accomplished an amazing feat, and discovered a supernova in a remote galaxy. /news/2025-10-dedicated-amateur-supernova-remote-galaxy.html Astronomy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:10:07 EDT news678553453 Though it might seem like science fiction, scientists are working to build nanoscale molecular machines that can be designed for myriad applications, such as "smart" medicines and materials. But like all machines, these tiny devices need a source of power, the way electronic appliances use electricity or living cells use ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the universal biological energy source). /news/2025-10-rechargeable-powers-nanoscale-molecular-machines.html Bio & Medicine Nanophysics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:40:04 EDT news678552001 Innovation helps spur rural economies, but a new study led by researchers at Penn State found that while firms incorporating innovation into their business model had higher credit application rates, they were less successful in receiving loans, especially in rural areas. /news/2025-10-businesses-credit-loans.html Economics & Business Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:27:04 EDT news678536821 Researchers from the Skoltech Engineering Center's Hierarchically Structured Materials Laboratory, in collaboration with colleagues from MISIS University and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, have for the first time observed nanoscale transformations in ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene—a material possessing a shape memory effect—in real time. /news/2025-10-scientists-memory-smart-plastic.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:18:03 EDT news678529081 Imagine watching a favorite movie when suddenly the sound stops. The data representing the audio is missing. All that's left are images. What if artificial intelligence (AI) could analyze each frame of the video and provide the audio automatically based on the pictures, reading lips and noting each time a foot hits the ground? /news/2025-10-ai-view-fusion-energy.html Plasma Â鶹ÒùÔºics Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:16:05 EDT news678528962 In the 17th century, astronomers Christiaan Huygens and Giovanni Cassini trained their telescopes on Saturn and uncovered a startling truth: the planet's luminous bands were not solid appendages, but vast, separate rings composed of countless nested arcs. /news/2025-09-simulations-saturn-moon-enceladus-ice.html Planetary Sciences Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:52:04 EDT news678466322 The seemingly unpredictable, and thereby uncontrollable, dynamics of living organisms have perplexed and fascinated scientists for a long time. While these dynamics can be represented by reaction networks, which can model a variety of biological systems, taming and therefore controlling these dynamics can be challenging. /news/2025-09-secret-survival-strategy-life-revealed.html Mathematics Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:17:03 EDT news678442621 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 Researchers at Seoul National University and Kyung Hee University report a framework to control collective motions, such as ring, clumps, mill, flock, by training a physics-informed AI to learn the local rules that govern interactions among individuals. /news/2025-09-physics-ai-local-flocking-motion.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:46:03 EDT news678109561 Polymer-based conductive nanocomposites, particularly those incorporating carbon nanotubes, are highly promising for the development of flexible electronics, soft robotics and wearable devices. However, CNTs are difficult to work with as they tend to agglomerate, making it hard to obtain a uniform dispersion. Moreover, conventional methods limit control over CNT distribution and shape. /news/2025-09-3d-carbon-nanotube-sensors-potential.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:43:03 EDT news678105781 Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables. Compare that with human scientists who work in a collaborative environment and consider experimental results, the broader scientific literature, imaging and structural analysis, personal experience or intuition, and input from colleagues and peer reviewers. /news/2025-09-ai-driven-blends-literature-robotics.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:34:05 EDT news678029641 How can you get ahead in your career and still enjoy the ride? /news/2025-09-funny.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:18:04 EDT news678025081