/ en-us 萌妹社区 internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: 萌妹社区ics, 萌妹社区, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new NASA study reveals a surprising way planetary cores may have formed鈥攐ne that could reshape how scientists understand the early evolution of rocky planets like Mars. /news/2025-05-3d-visualizations-reveal-molten-sulfide.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 22 May 2025 16:03:04 EDT news667148581 Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water鈥攐r so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists is challenging this century-old assumption. /news/2025-05-newly-superconductor-magnet.html Superconductivity Thu, 22 May 2025 15:43:05 EDT news667147382 Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and UCL have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained and lost genes in the process. /news/2025-05-ancient-dna-evolution-fever-bacteria.html Evolution Cell & Microbiology Thu, 22 May 2025 14:00:01 EDT news667121581 Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are a significant step toward future precise gene therapy for the brain that could safely control errant brain activity with high precision. In contrast, current therapies for brain disorders mostly treat only symptoms. /news/2025-05-scientists-gene-delivery-cells-brain.html Biotechnology Molecular & Computational biology Thu, 22 May 2025 13:11:37 EDT news667138289 Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have developed an interface that creates "virtual sorting nanomachines" without the need to manufacture actual devices. /news/2025-05-scientists-virtual-nanomachines-electron-graphene.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 22 May 2025 11:55:03 EDT news667133701 An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant exoplanet around an M-dwarf star (GEMS). The newfound GEMS, designated TOI-5573 b, is comparable in size to Saturn and its mass is estimated to be 0.35 Jupiter masses. The findings were detailed in a research paper published May 13 on the arXiv preprint server. /news/2025-05-gems-world-astronomers-saturn-exoplanet.html Planetary Sciences Thu, 22 May 2025 08:10:02 EDT news667063296 The indoor environment contains multiple sources of chemical compounds. These include continuous emissions from housing materials such as furniture, floors and furnishings, but also periodic intense emissions from human activities such as cooking, smoking, and cleaning. /news/2025-05-fragrance-lotion-radicals-skin-affecting.html Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Wed, 21 May 2025 17:25:04 EDT news667067101 Rutgers University鈥揘ew Brunswick researchers have discovered a new class of materials鈥攃alled intercrystals鈥攚ith unique electronic properties that could power future technologies. /news/2025-05-intercrystals-pave-greener-electronics-quantum.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Wed, 21 May 2025 17:17:04 EDT news667066621 Plasma鈥攖he electrically charged fourth state of matter鈥攊s at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. /news/2025-05-faster-stable-plasma-simulations-advance.html Plasma 萌妹社区ics Wed, 21 May 2025 17:14:04 EDT news667066441 The clean energy transition requires new means to transport energy that are less reliant on burning fossil fuels. This requires new materials to catalyze reactions to store and extract energy from chemical energy carriers without combustion. /news/2025-05-tool-stable-metal-frameworks-energy.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Wed, 21 May 2025 14:54:04 EDT news667058042 With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used the high-performance laser DIPOLE 100-X at the European XFEL for the first time in 2023. With spectacular results: In this initial experiment they managed to study liquid carbon鈥攁n unprecedented achievement as the researchers report in the journal Nature. /news/2025-05-liquid-carbon.html Plasma 萌妹社区ics Wed, 21 May 2025 14:17:04 EDT news667055822 Songbirds who make the arduous flight from their nesting sites in northern boreal forests to warm, southern climates in the winter may be rewarded for their journey with greater genetic diversity, according to a University of Michigan study. /news/2025-05-songbirds-great-results-genetic-reward.html Evolution Ecology Wed, 21 May 2025 10:17:05 EDT news667041421 Scientists studying a promising quantum material have stumbled upon a surprise: within its crystal structure, the material naturally forms one of the world's thinnest semiconductor junctions鈥攁 building block of most modern electronics. The junction is just 3.3 nanometers thick, about 25,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. /news/2025-05-scientists-world-thinnest-semiconductor-junctions.html Condensed Matter Quantum 萌妹社区ics Tue, 20 May 2025 17:18:03 EDT news666980281 Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell鈥攚ithout damaging it. Researchers at the University of Missouri have made this discovery using an unexpected combination of tools: frozen ethanol, electron beams and purple-tinted microbes. /news/2025-05-cool-science-craft-tiny-biological.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 20 May 2025 12:26:04 EDT news666962762 The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists at Forschungszentrum J眉lich have now discovered that in certain materials it is not only preserved but can even be actively controlled. This is due to a property of the crystal structure called chirality, which also influences many other processes in nature. /news/2025-05-overlooked-electron-property-avenues-orbitronics.html Condensed Matter Quantum 萌妹社区ics Tue, 20 May 2025 12:19:03 EDT news666962341 Sharks have been evolving for more than 450 million years, developing skeletons not from bone, but from a tough, mineralized form of cartilage. These creatures are more than just fast swimmers鈥攖hey're built for efficiency. Their spines act like natural springs, storing and releasing energy with each tailbeat, allowing them to move through the water with smooth, powerful grace. /news/2025-05-sharkitecture-nanoscale-blacktip-shark-skeleton.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Tue, 20 May 2025 11:01:04 EDT news666957661 As the world's energy needs for computing and artificial intelligence continue to increase, developing alternative low-power solutions to traditional computing becomes crucial. Devices that reliably generate randomness, or stochasticity, are vital for many computing applications. /news/2025-05-randomness-visualize-decision-nanomagnetic.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 20 May 2025 09:35:04 EDT news666952502 What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible. /news/2025-05-world-petahertz-phototransistor-ambient-conditions.html Optics & Photonics Quantum 萌妹社区ics Mon, 19 May 2025 16:15:04 EDT news666890101 Nanoplastics are everywhere. These fragments are so tiny they can accumulate on bacteria and be taken up by plant roots; they're in our food, our water, and our bodies. Scientists don't know the full extent of their impact on our health, but new research from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign food scientists suggests certain nanoplastics may make foodborne pathogens more virulent. /news/2025-05-positively-nanoplastics-coli-virulence.html Bio & Medicine Nanomaterials Mon, 19 May 2025 13:42:03 EDT news666880921 If you've ever watched a flock of birds move in perfect unison or seen ripples travel across a pond, you've witnessed nature's remarkable ability to coordinate motion. Recently, a team of scientists and engineers at Rice University discovered a similar phenomenon on a microscopic scale, where tiny magnetic particles driven by rotating fields spontaneously move along the edges of clusters driven by invisible "edge currents" that follow the rules of an unexpected branch of physics. /news/2025-05-invisible-currents-edge-magnetic-particles.html General 萌妹社区ics Condensed Matter Mon, 19 May 2025 13:36:04 EDT news666880562 Cornell researchers are demonstrating how artificial intelligence鈥攑articularly deep learning and generative modeling鈥攃an accelerate the design of new molecules and materials, and even function as an autonomous research assistant. /news/2025-05-smarter-faster-ai-explored-molecular.html Analytical Chemistry Materials Science Mon, 19 May 2025 13:14:03 EDT news666879241 Quantum computers hold the potential to revolutionize the possibilities for solving difficult computational problems that would take classical computers many years to resolve. But for those computers to meet their potential, they need working quantum bits, or qubits. The hunt for a better qubit is a major project of researchers around the world, who are trying different materials and methods in their search. /news/2025-05-electrons-quantum-fluids-solids-route.html Quantum 萌妹社区ics Mon, 19 May 2025 13:07:04 EDT news666878821 The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically. Until now, that is. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have cracked the last part of a code that science has struggled with for 30 years. The breakthrough could halve the price of the drug and make production far more sustainable. /news/2025-05-biosynthetic-advance-halve-widely-cancer.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Mon, 19 May 2025 11:48:48 EDT news666874124 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have solved a long-standing mystery behind the drainage of liquid from foams. Standard physics models wildly overestimate the height of foams required for liquid to drain out the bottom. Through careful observation, the team found that the limits are set by the pressure required to rearrange bubbles, not simply push liquid through a static set of obstacles. /news/2025-05-scientists-mystery-foams-leakier.html Soft Matter Mon, 19 May 2025 11:38:03 EDT news666873481 Conventional MRI scans, familiar to us from hospitals, have a resolution of about one-tenth of a millimeter, which allows them to image incredibly thin slices of our bodies from head to toe, helping physicians diagnose a variety of medical conditions. Even this ultra-high resolution, however, is insufficient for researchers who want to study the structure of individual molecules. /news/2025-05-mri-nano-sized.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Mon, 19 May 2025 11:17:04 EDT news666872221 Earth鈥攐ur tiny blue dot in the galaxy鈥攊s approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues about how stars are born, how energy moves through our galaxy, and maybe even some details about dark matter. /news/2025-05-clearer-3d-galactic-center.html Astronomy Mon, 19 May 2025 10:34:08 EDT news666869640 Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new way to identify genetic changes that help tiny oxygen-producing microbes survive in extreme environments. The findings outline a new experimental approach for learning how microbes and other types of cells, including human cells, respond and adapt to environmental stress. /news/2025-05-ocean-microbes-clues-environmental-resilience.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 16 May 2025 14:26:22 EDT news666624378 Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And despite their relative simplicity, they deploy remarkably savvy defensive strategies against viral invaders. The most well-known is CRISPR-Cas9, adapted for human use as the first FDA-approved genetic editing technique. /news/2025-05-scientists-defense-mechanism-crispr.html Cell & Microbiology Biotechnology Fri, 16 May 2025 10:07:03 EDT news666608821 Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many meteorites are made of crystalline materials, formed under exotic conditions that cannot be replicated on Earth. The stiffness of the crystals that make up these materials has historically been difficult to measure and normally this requires scientists to grow a special single crystal, which in this case is not possible. /news/2025-05-laser-ultrasound-reveal-elasticity-space.html Planetary Sciences Fri, 16 May 2025 09:30:04 EDT news666606602 A new study by University of Kentucky researchers is helping change how scientists understand and control magnetic energy鈥攁nd it could lead to faster, more efficient electronic devices. /news/2025-05-reveals-magnons-efficient-electronics.html General 萌妹社区ics Condensed Matter Thu, 15 May 2025 13:27:43 EDT news666534459