/ 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. In the world of professional ballet, every movement is scrutinized, every line of the body judged. For many dancers, the pursuit of perfection is not just a goal, it's also a survival strategy. But what happens when that pursuit becomes a trap? /news/2025-06-pirouettes-pressure-ballet-perfectionism-problem.html Social Sciences Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:00:01 EDT news669386185 At the end of a week when President Donald Trump sent Marines and the California National Guard to Los Angeles to quell protests, Americans across the country turned out in huge numbers to protest Trump's attempts to expand his power. In rallies on June 14, 2025, organized under the banner "No Kings," millions of protesters decried Trump's immigration roundups, cuts to government programs and what many described as his growing authoritarianism. /news/2025-06-millions-rally-authoritarianism-trump-portrays.html Political science Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:48:05 EDT news669289682 New research from Adelaide Business School at the University of Adelaide provides a framework for understanding the growing consumer interest in no, low and mid (NLM) alcohol wines. /news/2025-06-framework-consumer-demand-mid-alcohol.html Economics & Business Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:10:01 EDT news668947538 Imagine being tasked with baking a soufflé, except the only instruction provided is an ingredient list without any measurements or temperatures. /news/2025-06-chemical-storm-fronts-framework-enables.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:14:04 EDT news668880841 The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo's Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration from the European Space Agency, it unites African Union (AU) member states to harness space technology for development. This is in line with the AU's Agenda 2063, aimed at advancing Africa into a prosperous future. /news/2025-06-benefits-africa-space-agency.html Space Exploration Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:45:05 EDT news668789102 Coordinated behaviors like swarming—from ant colonies to schools of fish—are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have given a nod to nature with a next-generation robot system that's capable of movement, exploration, transport and cooperation. /news/2025-06-link-bots-explore-cooperate.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:40:01 EDT news668774523 Whether it's electric vehicles, drones, or spacecraft, a common technical challenge for future transportation is lightweighting. /news/2025-06-carbon-nanotubes-metal-ultra-lightweight.html Nanomaterials Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:42:03 EDT news668770921 Living forever has become the wellness and marketing trend of the 2020s. But cheating death—or at least delaying it—will come at a price. /news/2025-06-immortality-price-delaying-death-consumer.html Economics & Business Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:06:04 EDT news668682362 Social media influencers have become cultural powerhouses, setting trends, shaping lifestyles and even swaying political views. As their influence grows, so do ethical debates about them: are they villains exploiting their audiences, victims of an unregulated industry or champions driving positive change? /news/2025-06-villains-victims-champions-reality-complex.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:22:05 EDT news668251322 Several studies show that burnout is more about depressive stress in everyday life than specifically about work. /news/2025-06-burnout-factors-unrelated.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:30:02 EDT news668186527 Researchers from the University of Rochester and University of California, Santa Barbara, engineered a laser device smaller than a penny that they say could power everything from the LiDAR systems used in self-driving vehicles to gravitational wave detection, one of the most delicate experiments in existence to observe and understand our universe. /news/2025-06-laser-smaller-penny-ultrafast.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:07:03 EDT news668074021 Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin, which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The paper is published in the journal Science. /news/2025-05-electrons-lithium-tin-factor-billion.html General Â鶹ÒùÔºics Quantum Â鶹ÒùÔºics Thu, 29 May 2025 14:00:12 EDT news667649881 Life on Earth possesses an exceptional ability to self-reproduce, which, even on a simple cellular level, is driven by complex biochemistry. But can self-reproduction exist in a biochemistry-free environment? /news/2025-05-artificial-cell-mimic-reproduction-polymeric.html Biochemistry Polymers Thu, 29 May 2025 09:23:07 EDT news667729383 Extensive industrial catalytic applications have shown that the confined nano-channels of zeolites can precisely regulate molecular diffusion and metal cluster migration, effectively enhancing catalyst activity, selectivity, and stability. /news/2025-05-zeolite-nanopore-links-crystal-size.html Nanomaterials Wed, 28 May 2025 14:38:03 EDT news667661881 New research finds that the more compassionate people are, the better able they are to deal with broken promises in the workplace. Specifically, the study suggests that compassion makes employees tougher: more emotionally resilient, higher performing, and less likely to seek new work when they feel their employer has broken a promise to them. /news/2025-05-compassion-employees-resilient-employers-badly.html Social Sciences Economics & Business Wed, 28 May 2025 11:17:04 EDT news667649821 The idea of "lived experience"—knowledge gained through direct, personal experience—is now central in activism, academia and politics. Popularized by feminist thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir and concepts like standpoint theory, it makes sense that people see the world differently based on what they've been through. And movements like #MeToo showed how sharing personal stories, particularly for oppressed, marginalized or victimized groups, can drive real change. /news/2025-05-valued-good.html Social Sciences Tue, 27 May 2025 12:52:04 EDT news667569122 In biology, enzymes have evolved over millions of years to drive chemical reactions. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have now derived universal rules to enable the de novo design of optimal enzymes. /news/2025-05-enzymes-universal-optimal-enzyme.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Mon, 26 May 2025 08:56:03 EDT news667468561 Soft-bodied robots are unlocking a new era of adaptive machines that can safely interact with the human body, squeeze through tight spaces, and propel themselves autonomously. /news/2025-05-pneumatic-soft-robot-mimics-rotating.html Biotechnology Thu, 22 May 2025 09:51:05 EDT news667126258 Just 100 corporations are behind a fifth of the documented extractive conflicts worldwide, exposing how companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological harms are imposed on the Global South, according to a recent study by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB). /news/2025-05-corporations-global-conflicts-reveals.html Environment Tue, 20 May 2025 16:31:05 EDT news666977462 Public protests are on the rise globally, from climate marches and university occupations to roadblocks and mass political demonstrations. These actions may sometimes include confrontational tactics such as civil disobedience, disruption and, at times, violent resistance. /news/2025-05-protestors-disruptive-tactics-theyre-resort.html Social Sciences Political science Tue, 20 May 2025 13:39:04 EDT news666967141 The pressure of decarbonizing industrial sectors is weighing on workers. /news/2025-05-net-strains-uk-workforce-mental.html Social Sciences Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:02 EDT news666885640 Natural enzymes are remarkable molecular machines that enable all sorts of essential biochemical reactions. For decades, scientists have sought to create artificial versions of these catalysts for industrial and biomedical applications. However, they have struggled to match nature's efficiency and simplicity. This, in turn, has hindered the development of environmentally friendly catalysts for sustainable chemistry. /news/2025-05-efficient-artificial-enzymes-protein-cages.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Mon, 19 May 2025 12:43:04 EDT news666877382 Materials with self-adaptive mechanical responses have long been sought after in material science. Using computer simulations, researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad, now show how such adaptive behavior can emerge in active glasses, which are widely used as models for biological tissues. /news/2025-05-uncover-mechanism-enabling-glasses-brittleness.html Soft Matter Mon, 19 May 2025 10:34:13 EDT news666869646 Around 98% of Australian 15-year-olds use social media. Platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram are where young people connect with friends and online communities, explore and express their identities, seek information, and find support for mental health struggles. /news/2025-05-young-people-social-media-silver.html Social Sciences Fri, 16 May 2025 06:46:04 EDT news666596761 In Biology 101, we learn that RNA is a single, ribbon-like strand of base pairs that is copied from our DNA and then read like a recipe to build a protein. But there's more to the story. Some RNA strands fold into complex shapes that allow them to drive cellular processes like gene regulation and protein synthesis, or catalyze biochemical reactions. /news/2025-05-sequence-fast-track-rna.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Tue, 13 May 2025 15:30:05 EDT news666368540 The majority of RNAs in each of our cells don't code for any of the thousands of proteins that make up our bodies. Instead, noncoding RNAs have critical roles in many biological processes—such as gene expression—making them ideal targets for a variety of ailments, including cancers. Despite that, the first RNA-targeting therapeutic in the market was launched only five years ago, and the vast majority of all Food and Drug Administration–approved drugs target proteins. /news/2025-05-qa-ai-rna-drugs-therapeutic.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Mon, 12 May 2025 11:40:05 EDT news666268801 Research into chemical discovery, testing optimization and analysis can be a labor-intensive and time-consuming process. With many of the stages requiring manual preparation, sampling, and analysis, this can lead to increased time scales, higher costs and the potential for human error, and can limit the scope of exploration. /news/2025-05-labs-enable-faster-smarter-polymer.html Polymers Analytical Chemistry Mon, 12 May 2025 10:14:04 EDT news666263641 Overconfident chief executives and their risky behaviors can be partly restrained through credit ratings, new research finds. /news/2025-05-credit-key-ceo-overconfidence-corporate.html Economics & Business Mon, 12 May 2025 08:54:09 EDT news666258842 When a species reproduces, typically, each parent passes on one of their two versions (alleles) of a given gene to their offspring. But not all alleles play fair in their quest to be passed onto future generations. /news/2025-05-selfish-gene-skews-sex-ratio.html Cell & Microbiology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 08 May 2025 14:40:04 EDT news665934001 As fast fashion continues to fill wardrobes and landfills at a staggering pace, new research from the University of Portsmouth suggests that the future of fashion might lie not in fabric, but in pixels. /news/2025-05-virtual-couture-emerges-sustainable-alternative.html Environment Wed, 07 May 2025 09:35:03 EDT news665829301