Nuclear clocks are finally ticking
The world’s most precise clocks currently keep time using electrons. A laser excites electrons between two energy…
Scientists Push Molecules on a Surface to the Ultimate Quantum Limit
Artistic representation of an optically excited molecule on a surface of a crystal. Credit: MPL, Alexey Shkarin An…
Three Supermassive Black Holes Found in a Galaxy From the Dawn of the Universe
An AI-generated visualization of a distant galaxy, containing, besides dust, gas, and young stars, three massive, active black…
Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
An illustration of how researchers used state-of-the-art photoelectron spectroscopy (left-hand side) with a lab-based soft-X-ray light source that…
World’s First Photonic Time Crystal Can Reshape Light in Trillionths of a Second
A THz electromagnetic wave induces strong, fast temporal modulations that realize a photonic time crystal: a crystal lattice…
Scientists Watch Chemistry Unfold Atom by Atom
A UV pulse (purple beam) excites 3-fluoropyridine, while a delayed X-ray pulse (white beam) probes the nitrogen atom…
Europe’s First TES Spectrometer Makes Previously Impossible X-Ray Experiments Possible
The superconducting sensors need a temperature below 25 milli Kelvin. This is achieved by using a He4-He3 dilution…
COUNTESS I: A Uniformly Vetted Catalog of Known and New Transiting Exoplanets in the TESS Northern Continuous Viewing Zone
The distribution of planetary radius and orbital period of TOIs and new false positives and planet candidates. COUNTESS…
Quantifying Surface Heterogeneity Across Asteroid (101955) Bennu using Candidate Site Remote Sensing Data
Locations of the four candidate sites across a 2D map projection of Bennu’s surface captured by the OSIRIS-REx…
Breakthrough Technique Reveals Atomic Secrets of Record-Breaking Superconductors
Artistic representation of the interior of a diamond anvil cell. A copper-colored, multi-stage Lenz lens is placed on…
Scientists uncover why genome guardian p53 protein is uniquely prone to collapse
The protein p53 is often called the guardian of the genome for its central role in preventing cancer.…
In The Heart Of Planetary Nebula Tc 1, A Buckyball Of Buckyballs
The planetary nebula Tc 1, as observed by JWST’s MIRI mid-infrared instrument, uses a combination of nine filters…