Tuning Into Quantum Sounds – www.caltech.edu
When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the…
The dominance of turbulence over magnetism in the formation of massive star cluster seeds
Beuther, H., Kuiper, R. & Tafalla, M. Star formation from low to high mass: a comparative view. Annu.…
Probing the quantum metric of 3D topological insulators
Hasan, M. Z. & Kane, C. L. Colloquium: Topological insulators. Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045–3067 (2010). Article CAS …
Supermassive Black Holes Can Render Exoplanets Uninhabitable at Great Distances
The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet’s distance from its star. Too close, and…
Is Dust the Best Thing in the Universe? Part 3: Tiny Chemistry Labs
(This is Part 3 of a series on cosmic dust. Read Part 1 and Part 2 first.) But…
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core
A mysterious galaxy defies science: astronomers stunned by its motionless core – Futura-Sciences May 22, 2026 4 min…
Oxygen-centred planar orbitals in the electronic structure and spin-density-wave reconstruction of multilayer nickelates
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B…
Hi-res microscopes give biologists petabytes of data. Scientists are creating an AI assistant to make sense of it.
In a cramped, windowless room on the University of California, Berkeley campus, two bespoke microscopes — each a…
Negative time could be real as light appears to exit atoms before entry
Physicists have just uncovered fresh evidence for a bizarre quantum phenomenon called negative time, where photons appear to…
New quantum sensor could count individual photons and hunt dark matter
Researchers in Finland have achieved a major advance in ultra-sensitive measurement technology by detecting an amount of energy…
Quantum Dynamics Advance Overturns Claim of ‘Quantum Supremacy,’ Opens New Research Directions
Insider Brief Researchers at the Simons Foundation’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics and collaborators at Boston University reported…
The lives of black holes, from birth to death
Of all the strange and spectacular things in outer space, nothing is stranger or more spectacular than black…