Terahertz spectroscopy reveals how plant leaves manage water through stomatal openings
Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20219-y How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny…
Electrically tunable metasurface unlocks real-time THz holography
The proposed ‘microladder’ metasurface has a THz response that can be electrically controlled, making it ideal for holographic…
Quantum error correction codes enable efficient scaling to hundreds of thousands of qubits
The proposed error-correction codes are scalable to hundreds of thousands of qubits and are highly efficient, serving as…
High-order analysis reveals more signs of phase-change ‘turbulence’ in nuclear matter
The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Members of the…
Uranian moon Ariel’s surface features point to a past ocean over 100 miles deep
New research suggests that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, might have once harbored an ocean about 100 miles…
World’s most sensitive detector tightens the net on on elusive dark matter
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment. Credit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory Determining the nature…
Quantum computer exhibit at O’Hare seeks to make the technology tangible
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of…
Key genes identified in insect death triggered by extreme stress
Credit: Egor Kamelev from Pexels Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified genes and signaling pathways that trigger…
Life’s building blocks may not be stable—just really, really long-lived
Proton decay chain. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/cxvm-p412 Although the building blocks of life such as…
Scientists achieve electrically driven perovskite laser using dual-cavity design
A schematic of the dual-cavity electrically driven perovskite laser. Credit: C. Zou et al./Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09457-2. In a recent…
Spin may resolve century-old puzzle of light’s momentum in matter
by Adam B. Cahaya When light enters a medium like water or glass, it bends, raising the long-standing…
Information could be a fundamental part of the universe, and may explain dark energy and dark matter
Credit: CC0 Public Domain For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s…