Astronomers catch supermassive black hole in the act of ‘waking up’
Top panel: the cluster of galaxies (white/violet) and its hot gaseous atmosphere (blue); bottom right panel: NSF VLBA…
Experimental device demonstrates how electron beams reconfigure plasma structure
Changes in MHD equilibrium before and after flux rope merging. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09345-9 In a scientific…
Milli-Tesla quantization enabled by tuneable Coulomb screening in large-angle twisted graphene
Figure 1a shows one of our large-angle twisted bilayer graphene (LATBG) devices with a twist angle of \(\theta \sim…
Dancing dwarf galaxies predict the Milky Way’s future
A high-resolution color image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the…
Angle-tuned Gross-Neveu quantum criticality in twisted bilayer graphene
Continuum model of TBG The schematic twist of graphene Brillouin zone and the consequent moiré Brillouin zone are…
New research reveals surprising ancestry
‘Tanzania’ variety of sweetpotato. Credit: Benard Yada at National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Uganda The sweet potato…
Scientists measure quantum distance in a solid for the first time ever
For decades, physicists have talked about quantum distance, a way of measuring how similar or different two quantum…
Scientists capture the secret quantum dance of atoms for the first time
Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world: According to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it’s like…
Laser power stabilization using conservation law in acoustic optic modulator
Our experimental setup is depicted in Fig. 1. The photoelectric control system is shown in Fig. 1a. A…
Scientists use perfectly timed lasers pulses to pause silicon melting
A team of researchers from University of California and the University of Kassel in Germany has developed a…
Using geometry and physics to explain feature learning in deep neural networks
A handmade folding ruler analogy, which the team found could be used to model DNN training in different…
What would space sound like if we could hear it?
Our universe is filled with floating nebulae, spinning planets and black holes. But if we closed our eyes…