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A new purple cooling fabric developed by Chinese and Australian researchers could offer a way to stay cooler in intense summer heat without relying on traditional white clothing. The study published in the journal 'Small,' describes that the material is designed to reflect sunlight while allowing heat to escape from the fabric.

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Freezing liquid inside an optical fibre has helped scientists create an unusual environment where light and sound can interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than they do in ordinary optical fibres.

For some cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, touching something cold or stepping into a cold room can trigger pain. Scientists from IISc and TCG-CREST's Centre for High Impact Neuroscience and Translational Applications (CHINTA), Kolkata, have found a pathway in the brain that appears to turn an otherwise harmless drop in temperature into a painful experience after chemotherapy.

Scientists have long struggled to reliably detect nerve agents used in chemical warfare, not just because they are highly toxic, but because many sensors produce the same yellow colour as the chemicals they are trying to identify, making the signal easy to miss or misread.

Rain that falls miles beyond the national park can sink into the ground through sinkholes, travel through hidden underground passages and eventually emerge within the Mammoth Cave system. A major groundwater-tracing programme helped scientists uncover this hidden connection, mapping the cave's underground plumbing and revealing that much of the water flowing into it originates beyond the park's protected boundaries.

Imagine, what if a protein's complex 3-D structure could be converted into a simple string of numbers--and that string could help scientists understand what the protein does? That's the premise of an innovative AI model developed by 17-year-old Jerry Xu of Lexington, Massachusetts, who earned $90,000 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search for his research, states an online report by the Society for Science.

For years, environmental groups and residents near Lahaina, Maui, suspected that treated wastewater pumped underground was somehow finding its way into the Pacific Ocean, a concern later confirmed by a University of Hawaii tracer study that Earthjustice and other groups cited in their legal campaign against Maui County's disposal practices. Divers had documented unusual submarine springs bubbling up off Kahekili Beach Park as early as 2007, and elevated nitrogen isotope readings in nearby macroalgae hinted that these springs carried something other than ordinary groundwater, according to USGS-led research on nearshore groundwater discharge at the site.

A newly described snake from the forests of New Guinea has been given a name familiar to rock fans around the world. Scientists have named the non-venomous species Lielaphis slashi, or Slash's groundsnake, after Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, whose real name is Saul Hudson.

Scientists at IIT Madras have built the IntelliSeat, a smart driver's seat that senses fatigue from the way a person sits and warns them before a crash. Here is how the wireless seat works, the science of muscle fatigue behind it, and why it could make India's roads safer.