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…
Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf’s atmosphere
Artist’s impression of white dwarf WD 1647+375 accreting icy planetary fragments from a pluto-like world, creating the chemical…
Space-time doesn’t exist, but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions…
Golden lion tamarins and sloths become unlikely roommates at Palm Beach Zoo
A Hoffman’s two-toed sloth is seen eating inside its new habitat at the Palm Beach Zoo Conservation Society…
Researchers cut the time for a learning task from 20 million years to 15 minutes
The squeezer—an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that uses a nonlinear crystal inside an optical cavity to manipulate the…
New adaptive optics system promises sharper gravitational-wave observations
Credit: University of California – Riverside Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks…
‘Rosetta stone’ of code allows scientists to run core quantum computing operations
Artist’s impression of the entangled logic gate built by University of Sydney quantum scientists. Credit: Emma Hyde/University of…
Non-detection of persistent radio source places tightest constraints yet on non-repeating fast radio burst origins
VLA images demonstrating the non-detection of persistent radio emission at the FRB 20250316A position across different bands and…
Light-driven thermal barriers control fluid flow in three dimensions
Generation of a localized optofluidic barrier. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01731-z Scientists at the Department of Applied…