Bacteria use sugar-fueled currents and molecular gearboxes to move without flagella
Bacteria can effectively travel even without their propeller-like flagella — by “swashing” across moist surfaces using chemical currents,…
Blue Origin to launch giant New Glenn rocket again. How to watch
On the eve of the scheduled launch window opening up, here’s how to watch a livestream as the…
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles
Nonlocality seems to be enchanted into such a fundamental property of our universe as the indistinguishability of quantum…
Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200X the distance
New research from University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) Asst. Prof. Tian Zhong could…
The JWST puts Io’s volcanic nature in the spotlight
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Near Infrared Spectrograph captured emissions of heat, sulfur dioxide, and sulfur from…
Nearby pulsar offers insights into emission physics near the death line
Pulse stacks of PSR J2129+4119 observed on September 29, 2024, showing three distinct behaviors: steady drifting (left), intermittent…
A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole…
Chasing and splashing molecules create resilient order from apparent chaos, study shows
Non-reciprocal interactions drive large-scale collective motion, where one species chases the other forming spatiotemporal patterns. Credit: Max Planck…
Should we build an optical interferometer on the moon?
This image from the report shows permanently shadowed regions on the lunar South Pole. These regions could be…
Trying to find baby planets swaddled in dust
These are high-resolution ALMA images showing dust in protostellar disks, including some circumbinary disks. All of the disks…
Are the cosmic voids truly empty?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If we take out all the matter, neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays, and radiation…
Plasma lens can focus attosecond pulses across different ranges of XUV light
a, An attosecond pulse enters a capillary, where a strong electrical pulse generates a hydrogen plasma. As the…