Ultrafast electron diffraction captures atomic layers twisting in response to light
Experimental scheme and representative diffraction images. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09707-3 A pulse of light sets the tempo…
Material system enhances superconducting qubits
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 12 November 2025 In the development of large-scale quantum processors, material improvements yield rapid progress because…
Ultrafast light-driven electron slide discovered
NILES. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03093-3 When an intense laser pulse hits a stationary electron, it performs…
I have Einstein, Bohr and Feynman in my pocket
How’s this for an academic dream team? Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Richard Feynman. The three physicists and…
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…