New catalog compiles more than 100 ‘spider’ pulsars that consume stellar partners
The comparably tiny spider pulsar blasts its much bigger neighboring star with so much energy that the side…
Gravitational wave detectors affected by daylight savings time
Aerial view of the LIGO observatory in Hanford, Washington. Credit: LIGO Observatory Interference from human activity has always…
Bridge recombinases, optimized for human cells, enable massive programmable DNA rearrangements
How bridge recombinases have a dual targeting capability that enable these systems to insert new genetic material, delete…
3D particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate first true steady state in turbulent plasma
Electric currents spatial distribution in a steady-state turbulence. Credit: PRL (2025), DOI: 10.1103/3777-z37m Plasma is a state of…
How diamond fails under extreme electrical fields
Credit: Cell Reports Physical Science (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2025.102843 A research team from the University of Chinese Academy of…
JWST searches for stars in a glowing gas cloud
Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s…
Why the East Antarctic interior is warming faster and earlier than its coastal areas
Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive…
Supermassive black holes shrouded by dust in the early universe
An artist’s impression of a dust-shrouded quasar in the early universe. Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered “dust-shrouded supermassive…
First-ever complete measurement of a black-hole recoil achieved thanks to gravitational waves
Illustration of the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves they generate. Credit: Galician Institute of…
Physicists demonstrate controlled expansion of quantum wavepacket in a levitated nanoparticle
Picture showing a nanoparticle with a fuzzy contour—somehow an artistic impression of delocalization. The noisy trajectories on the…
Sharks now roam the open ocean. But for 200 million years, they only lived near the sea floor
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When you picture a shark, you probably think of a large, powerful predator cruising…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
Comparison of the SR and ordinary fluorescence decay rates in 86Rb. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/l3c1-yg2l…