Euclid’s First Data Release Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution
The ESA’s Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the…
Scientists solve the mystery of ‘impossible’ merger of ‘forbidden’ black holes
Scientists have gotten to the bottom of the mystery of an “impossible” merger between black holes that was…
Non-harmonic two-color femtosecond lasers achieve 1,000-fold enhancement of white-light output in water
Experimental demonstration that non-harmonic two-color femtosecond excitation produces a ~1,000× stronger supercontinuum in water compared to conventional single-color…
Astronomers reveal what happened less than a second after the Big Bang
Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime…
AI helps predict and understand viscous fingering
Viscous fingering during the displacement of a more viscous fluid (dark color) by a less viscous fluid (yellow…
Photoinduced twist and untwist of moiré superlattices
Cao, Y. et al. Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 556, 80–84 (2018). Article …
Optimal scaling for magic state distillation in quantum computing achieved
Comparison of distillation protocols. The existing protocol exploits a distillation procedure using a fixed code to convert noisy…
Astronomers discover new pulsating ultraluminous X-ray source
Combined XMM-Newton EPIC image of NGC 4631 in the 0.3–10 keV band from the July 2025 observation. The…
Mathematicians Just Made a Huge Breakthrough in Wave Prediction
Questions? Just ask math! Photo: Unsplash Since mathematicians became a thing in Babylonia somewhere around 2000 BC, number…
scientists are trying new ways to verify the idea that could unite all of physics
In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture…
Exotic ‘time crystals’ could be used as memory in quantum computers, promising research finds
Time crystals could help create quantum computing data storage that lasts minutes, new research shows — a huge…
New Proofs Probe Soap-Film Singularities
They started by re-proving Hardt and Simon’s decades-old result in eight dimensions, this time using a different method…