Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps
Microlightning between bubbles containing air and methane. Credit: Yu Xia For centuries, people have described strange blue balls…
Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts
Diagram of analysis workflow building maps of probability ridges from GPS tracking data (A–D) and sample maps showing…
Terahertz spectroscopy reveals how plant leaves manage water through stomatal openings
Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-20219-y How do plants breathe? When do they open and close the tiny…
Electrically tunable metasurface unlocks real-time THz holography
The proposed ‘microladder’ metasurface has a THz response that can be electrically controlled, making it ideal for holographic…
Quantum computer exhibit at O’Hare seeks to make the technology tangible
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Chicago has quickly emerged as a hub for quantum computing, with the state of…
Quantum error correction codes enable efficient scaling to hundreds of thousands of qubits
The proposed error-correction codes are scalable to hundreds of thousands of qubits and are highly efficient, serving as…
Study reveals three possible outcomes
Two possible compositions of ejecta from quark star collisions: (i) a gas of quark nuggets with a small…
High-order analysis reveals more signs of phase-change ‘turbulence’ in nuclear matter
The STAR detector at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Members of the…
World’s most sensitive detector tightens the net on on elusive dark matter
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment. Credit: Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory Determining the nature…
Key genes identified in insect death triggered by extreme stress
Credit: Egor Kamelev from Pexels Researchers at University of Tsukuba have identified genes and signaling pathways that trigger…
Physicists realize time-varying strong coupling in a magnonic system
Image represents the control of strongly coupled magnons using time slits instead of spatial ones, which creates double-slit…
Life’s building blocks may not be stable—just really, really long-lived
Proton decay chain. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/cxvm-p412 Although the building blocks of life such as…