Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the test
At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar.…
We could use neutrino detectors as giant particle colliders
The IceCube building in Antartica. Credit: Cmichel67/Wikimedia Commons There is a limit to how big we can build…
Thin-film strontium titanate sets electro-optic performance record at cryogenic temperatures
(a) Thin-film 200-mm strontium titanate (SrTiO3) grown on silicon wafer. (b) Transmission electron microscope image highlighting the crystallinity…
Physicists achieve high precision in measuring strontium atoms using rubidium neighbor
Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium…
Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices
A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…
Picture of universe getting clearer—but much remains unknown
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a…
Pink sea anemone that ‘builds a home’ for hermit crabs discovered off Japan’s deep-sea coast
Paracalliactis tsukisome, a newly discovered sea anemone living in symbiosis with hermit crabs on the deep-sea floor off…
Radiocarbon analysis of turfgrasses can help cities measure greenhouse gas emissions
The sun sets over an expanse of greater Los Angeles that is occupied by one of the region’s…
Photoinduced non-reciprocal magnetism effectively violates Newton’s third law
A non-reciprocal phase transition to a many-body, time-dependent chiral phase occurs in layered ferromagnets. Credit: Institute of Science…
AI-generated wildlife videos generate confusion and threaten conservation efforts
A snapshot from an AI-generated wildlife video A video is circulating on social media in which a leopard…
AC instead of DC unlocks nano-LEDs for VR headsets and near-eye displays
Optical and scanning electron microscope images of a nano-LED device that uses AC power instead of DC power,…
CERN’s electrostatic trap ‘recycles’ anions to illuminate the heaviest elements
Illustration of the ion trap used by the ISOLDE team to measure the electron affinity of chlorine. In…