What Lies Within? New Image From a Mysterious Galaxy Asks Big Questions
A new image of galaxy OJ 287 reveals for the first time the sharply curved, ribbon-like structure of…
Designing nonlinearity in a current-starved ring oscillator for reservoir computing hardware
Jaeger, H. & Haas, H. Harnessing nonlinearity: predicting chaotic systems and saving energy in wireless communication. Science 304…
Astronomers determine new origins of double-peaked emission lines in galactic centers
Simulating the full band light emitted by a binary supermassive black hole system in a transparent medium, observed…
Physicists solve mystery of loop current switching in kagome metals
Permanent nanoscale loop electrical currents in kagome metals. Credit: Kano Okada, Nagoya University Quantum metals are metals where…
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…
James Webb Space Telescope’s First Look at an Atmosphere on Habitable Zone Exoplanet
An illustration of a habitable zone planet orbiting the star called TRAPPIST – credit NASA, ESA, CSA, J.…
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…