Lightning strikes 12 times per minute on fusion engineering test platform
Century is Zap Energy’s fusion engineering test platform. Credit: Zap Energy Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion…
Nanoscale slots enable room-temperature hybrid states of matter in perovskite
The perovskite–nanoslot hybrid system in the ultrastrong coupling regime. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63810-7 Atoms in crystalline…
Signal Hidden in a Gamma-Ray Burst Could Be a Strange Newborn’s First Heartbeat : ScienceAlert
Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of…
Spatiotemporal dynamics of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Microscopic model We study the spatiotemporal moiré exciton dynamics in a twisted TMD heterostructure in the low excitation…
Absence of orbital current torque in Ta/ferromagnet bilayers
Liu, L. et al. Spin-torque switching with the giant spin Hall effect of tantalum. Science 336, 555 (2012).…
Tunable unconventional spin orbit torque magnetization dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures
We investigated TaIrTe4/Fe3GaTe2 vdW heterostructures (Fig. 1a)19 due to their promising properties, anticipating that their combination could yield contemporary…
Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
“The UCSB Physics Department has a long history of devising searches for dark matter, starting with one of the…
Nobelist George Smoot, whose satellite experiments validated the Big Bang theory, dies at 80
Physicist George Smoot told a packed press conference in 1992, “If you’re religious, it’s like seeing God.” He…
Scientists Unlock New Way To Control Exotic Light Waves in 2D Materials
Illustrative scenario of propagation of DPP, at Terahertz frequencies, induced by the tip of a s-SNOM microscope in…
Towards terahertz nanomechanics | Nature Communications
Pawar, A. Y., Sonawane, D. D., Erande, K. B. & Derle, D. V. Terahertz technology and its applications.…
Collective Bloch oscillations observed in 1D Bose gas system
Motion of magnetic soliton in an atomic ring and creation of superfluid currents. Credit: G. Brochier. Bloch oscillations…
Long-term radio observations track the evolution of a tidal disruption event
2.25, 5.5, 9, and 15.5 GHz light curve of AT2019azh. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.17525 Astronomers from Curtin…