New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean
An iceberg spotted near the most southern point of the research cruise’s transect highlights some of the challenges…
“Our Replication Leaves No Doubt” Physicists Uncover Long-Forgotten Experiment That Could Shatter Energy Limits Forever
IN A NUTSHELL 🌟 Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully revived a forgotten 1938 experiment on…
Giant, free-floating planets may form their own planetary systems
AI generated image of a young free floating planetary-mass object surrounded by a dusty disk. Credit: University of…
Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields
Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice…
Scientists Discovered a Way to Reverse Time—and Possibly Erase Mistakes
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In the physical world, time marches in one direction,…
Physicists finally unveil what lightning really hides
Lightning, with its spectacular flash, carries more than just legends. Throughout the centuries, it has fascinated and frightened,…
Quantum framework offers new approach to analyzing complex network data
QTSP, which is at the core of ranking algorithms, processes higher-order data. This data is represented as graphs…
Scientists just recreated the universe’s first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmos
For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe’s first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the…
Gaussian processes provide a new path toward quantum machine learning
Schematic of the main results. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02883-z Neural networks revolutionized machine learning for classical…
Biodiversity matters in every forest, but even more in wetter ones
Researchers used data from 15 tree diversity experimental sites—like this one in Putuo, China—to find that richer diversity…
The First Molecule in the Universe Was Just Recreated
In a monumental breakthrough, scientists have recreated the universe’s first molecule, helium hydride (HeH⁺), solving a puzzle that…
A new open-source program for quantum physics helps researchers obtain results in record time
Schematic of the RK4 steps. Dark green objects mark real or complex buffers while blue objects mark the…