Falling water forms beautiful fluted films
Using hollow tubes of varying diameters and high-speed imaging, KAUST researchers captured the hidden shapes of the thin…
Optical signatures of interlayer electron coherence in a bilayer semiconductor
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors that can host optically bright excitons corresponding to Coulomb-bound electron–hole pairs. Due…
Streams of gas might lead to the rapid formation of high-mass stars
The dust emission of the high-mass star forming region G336.018-00.827 ALMA1 at radio wavelengths. The star symbol indicates…
Watching Electron Dynamics Shape Chemical Reactions
Haiwang YongDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, US August 20, 2025•…
Realization of a doped quantum antiferromagnet in a Rydberg tweezer array
Lee, P. A., Nagaosa, N. & Wen, X.-G. Doping a Mott insulator: physics of high-temperature superconductivity. Rev. Mod.…
A New Model for Early Black Hole Formation Could Revolutionize Cosmologicy
When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) commenced operations, it provided the first views of the period known…
Scientists program cells to create biological qubit in multidisciplinary research
Researchers have designed protein qubits that can be produced by cells naturally, opening possibilities for precision measurements of…
Simple additive method leads to record-setting perovskite laser performance
Suppressing Auger recombination for high-performance perovskite VCSELs. Credit: Xingliang Dai / Zhejiang University For years, engineers have sought…
Astronomers have glimpsed the core of a dying star – confirming theories of how atoms are made
Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called…
Summer students shine at CERN
CERN’s 2025 Summer Student programmes welcomed 341 young scientists and engineers from more than 100 nations to experience…
Single quantum device that measures amperes, volts and ohms could revolutionize how we measure electricity
Illustration of a current measurement with the unified system. Credit: Nature Electronics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41928-025-01421-2 A team of…
Physics flipped upside down — Scientists manage to create negative mass
Negative mass was something physicists never thought they would find – let alone create. For more than a…