/ en-us ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics, ÃÈÃÃÉçÇø, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. 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 Axions, hypothetical subatomic particles that were first proposed by theoretical physicists in the late 1970s, remain among the most promising dark matter candidates. 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The research could lead to innovations in everything from heart stents to airplane wings and running shoes. /news/2025-05-class-materials-origami.html General ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Mon, 05 May 2025 11:15:59 EDT news665662549 Exosomes, secreted by most cells, carry biological information and proteins that serve as noninvasive biomarkers for diagnosing and predicting disease progression and metastasis. However, the rapid isolation of high-purity exosomes from various biofluids, such as undiluted whole blood, plasma and serum, remains a challenge. /news/2025-04-oscillating-microbubbles-exosomes-blood-minutes.html Bio & Medicine Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:27:03 EDT news665062021 The Earth's magnetic field quietly supports life on the planet and now, for the first time, its invisible powers have been used to create new nanoparticles and materials. /news/2025-04-earth-magnetic-field-impact-fluid.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:10:06 EDT news663931964 Twisted moiré photonic crystals—an advanced type of optical metamaterial—have shown enormous potential in the race to engineer smaller, more capable and more powerful optical systems. How do they work? /news/2025-04-crystals-door-smaller-powerful-sensors.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:08:04 EDT news662904481 In a leap forward for materials science, a multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a pioneering method of 3D printing cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs), enabling complex, color-changing responsive materials and paving the way for novel applications like smart textiles and advanced robotics. /news/2025-03-3d-method-materials-smart-textiles.html Materials Science Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:53:04 EDT news662651581 When materials are created on a nanometer scale—just a handful of atoms thick—even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ripples affect the mechanical properties of these thin materials can limit their use in electronics and other key systems. /news/2025-03-nanoscale-ripples-key-thin-material.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:05:03 EDT news662303101 A flower-shaped structure only a few micrometers in size made of a nickel-iron alloy can concentrate and locally enhance magnetic fields. The size of the effect can be controlled by varying the geometry and number of "petals." /news/2025-03-magnetic-microflowers-local-fields.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:21:03 EDT news662127662 What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely packed atoms? At EPFL, you get a metamaterial, an engineered material that exhibits exotic properties. /news/2025-03-quantum-atoms-acoustics.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Tue, 25 Mar 2025 12:57:57 EDT news662126269 Terahertz (THz) waves are located between microwaves and infrared light in the electromagnetic spectrum. They can pass through many materials without causing damage, making them useful for security scanning, medical imaging, and high-speed wireless communication. Unlike visible light or radio waves, THz waves can reveal structural details of biological molecules and penetrate nonmetallic objects like clothing and paper. /news/2025-03-patterned-spintronic-emitter-enables-room.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:30:04 EDT news662045402 Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have unveiled a new optical technology that enables precise focusing of light—only in one direction. This novel unidirectional focusing design uses structured diffractive layers that are optimized using deep learning to transmit light efficiently in the forward direction of operation while effectively suppressing unwanted backward focusing of light. /news/2025-03-unveil-unidirectional-focusing-diffractive-optics.html Optics & Photonics Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:10:13 EDT news662026202 Quantum entanglement is a fundamental phenomenon in nature and one of the most intriguing aspects of quantum mechanics. It describes a correlation between two particles, such that measuring the properties of one instantly reveals those of the other, no matter how far apart they are. This unique property has been harnessed in applications such as quantum computing and quantum communication. /news/2025-03-quantum-holograms-metasurfaces-entangle.html Optics & Photonics Quantum ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:52:09 EDT news661017124 For the first time, researchers have used high-speed laser writing to create lines spaced just 100 nm apart on a glass substrate. The optimized printing approach could enable super-resolution 3D direct laser writing (DLW) of microlenses, photonics crystals, micro-optical devices, metamaterials and more. /news/2025-02-optimized-approach-enables-super-resolution.html Optics & Photonics Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:41:03 EST news659889661 For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays—without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. /news/2025-02-atomic-arrays-enable-negative-refraction.html Optics & Photonics Wed, 12 Feb 2025 05:00:04 EST news658488842 Quantum computers have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some optimization and computational tasks. Compared to classical systems, however, quantum systems are more prone to errors, as they are more sensitive to noise and prone to so-called decoherence. /news/2025-01-phononic-bandgap-materials-suppress-decoherence.html Condensed Matter Quantum ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:50:06 EST news657383993 The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft "invisible" to radar. /news/2025-01-electromagnetic-material-shifting-chameleon.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:27:19 EST news656764027 A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has developed innovative methods to enhance frequency conversion of terahertz (THz) waves in graphene-based structures, unlocking new potential for faster, more efficient technologies in wireless communication and signal processing. /news/2025-01-harnessing-electromagnetic-quantum-materials-wireless.html Optics & Photonics Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:27:04 EST news656699221 A team of UConn College of Engineering (CoE) researchers have achieved a major milestone in the field of phononics with the first experimental demonstration of an all-flat phononic band structure (AFB). Phononics concerns the study of sound and heat control. /news/2025-01-flat-phononic-band-vibrations-energy.html General ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Condensed Matter Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:37:03 EST news656077021 In a new publication in Nature Communications, Israeli and Palestinian engineers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem pioneered the use of metamaterials to create whole cuts of meat. The work leverages cutting-edge materials science to overcome the long-standing challenges of replicating the texture and structure of traditional meat while offering a scalable and cost-effective production method that surpasses 3D printing technology. /news/2025-01-crafting-meat-metamaterials-mimic-muscle.html Biochemistry Materials Science Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:20:24 EST news655564816 Dipole toroidal modes are a unique set of excitations that are predicted to occur in various physical systems, ranging from atomic nuclei to metamaterials. What characterizes these excitations, or modes, is a toroidal distribution of currents, which results in the formation of vortex-like structures. /news/2025-01-nickel-nucleus-host-elusive-toroidal.html General ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøics Tue, 07 Jan 2025 08:00:02 EST news655395881 Acoustic metamaterials—architected materials that have tailored geometries designed to control the propagation of acoustic or elastic waves through a medium—have been studied extensively through computational and theoretical methods. ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøical realizations of these materials to date have been restricted to large sizes and low frequencies. /news/2024-11-framework-tunable-ultrasound-propagation-microscale.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:51:42 EST news651401494 Metamaterials are artificial materials that do not occur in nature. Their components function like atoms in conventional materials but have special optical, electrical and magnetic properties. Interaction between the components is crucial to a metamaterial's functionality. /news/2024-11-mechanical-metamaterial-enables-distance-component.html Condensed Matter Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:09:15 EST news650887751 Researchers have taken a novel approach to studying the interaction between certain topological metamaterials and sound wave propagation. /news/2024-11-macroscopic-propagation-topological-metamaterials.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:22:03 EST news650636521 In the context of sensory modalities, eyes work like tiny antennae, picking up light, electromagnetic waves traveling at blistering speeds. When humans look at the world, their eyes catch these waves and convert them into signals the brain reads as colors, shapes, and movement. It's a seamless process, that allows people to see details clearly even when there's a lot happening around them. /news/2024-10-klein-tunneling-acoustic-filtration.html Nanophysics Nanomaterials Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:00:41 EDT news648478837 In recent years, researchers have synthesized various new materials that could be used to develop more advanced robotic systems, devices and human-machine interfaces. These materials include graphene aerogels, ultralight, porous and graphene-based materials comprised of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a 2D honeycomb lattice. /news/2024-10-fabrication-strategy-graphene-aerogel-sensitivity.html Nanomaterials Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:10:01 EDT news648444831 A new software package developed by researchers at Macquarie University can accurately model the way waves—sound, water or light—are scattered when they meet complex configurations of particles. /news/2024-09-simulation-potential-metamaterials.html Condensed Matter Optics & Photonics Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:30:28 EDT news645355817 Scientists from the Department of ÃÈÃÃÉçÇøical Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have made a significant discovery in the field of nanotechnology, as detailed in their latest publication in Advanced Materials. Their paper, titled "Spectroscopic and Interferometric Sum-Frequency Imaging of Strongly Coupled Phonon Polaritons in SiC Metasurfaces," introduces a novel microscopy method that allows for the unprecedented visualization of nanostructures and their optical properties. /news/2024-08-advanced-microscopy-method-reveals-hidden.html Nanomaterials Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:14:02 EDT news642788041 Society relies heavily on diverse fluidic technologies. The ability to precisely capture and release various chemical and biological fluids plays a fundamental role in many fields. A long-standing challenge is to design a platform that enables the switchable capture and release of liquids with precise spatial and temporal control and accurate volumes of the fluid. /news/2024-08-versatile-fluidic-platform-programmable-liquid.html Analytical Chemistry Thu, 08 Aug 2024 07:40:02 EDT news642320568 Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Chemnitz, TU Dresden and Forschungszentrum Jülich have been the first to demonstrate that not just individual bits, but entire bit sequences can be stored in cylindrical domains: tiny, cylindrical areas measuring just around 100 nanometers. /news/2024-07-metamaterials-highway-concept-potential-efficient.html Condensed Matter Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:30:01 EDT news640343994