Nanotech

Study reveals wild chimpanzees learn how to communicate from relatives on mom's side, not dad's

August 6, 2025

A chimpanzee offspring of the Kanyawara community. Credit: Ray Donovan (CC-BY 4.0, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Young chimpanzees learn their communication…

SScience

Scientists create gold hydride by combining gold and hydrogen under extreme conditions

August 5, 2025

Illustration of intense pulses from an X-ray free-electron laser (left) heating compressed samples of hydrocarbons to extreme conditions,…

PPhysics

Astronomers observe a giant outburst of X-ray binary RX J0440.9+4431

August 5, 2025

The long term Swift/BAT light curve of RX J0440.9+4431 in 15-50 keV covering the 2022-2023 giant outburst duration.…

PPhysics

New measurement of free neutron lifetime achieves world-record precision

August 5, 2025

Student researcher Katherine Zine from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Nathan Washecheck from North Carolina State University and…

PPhysics

Ultrathin metallic films show tunable, directional charge flow using light at room temperature

August 5, 2025

Epitaxial strain control of electronic anisotropy in the RuO2/TiO2 (110) heterostructure. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw7125 In…

PPhysics

Discovery of Planckian time limit opens doors to novel quantum technologies

August 5, 2025

Image of heavy electrons with quantum entanglement on CeRhSn. Credit: Takuto Nakamura and Shin-ichi Kimura A joint research…

PPhysics

Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast

August 5, 2025

Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk distorted by a shock front created by an expanding bubble. Credit: ALMA…

EEnvironment

New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean

August 5, 2025

An iceberg spotted near the most southern point of the research cruise’s transect highlights some of the challenges…

SScience

Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave

August 5, 2025

Cave contents. Credit: Trond Klungseth Lødøen Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived…

PPhysics

Meet 'lite intermediate black holes,' the supermassive black hole's smaller, much more mysterious cousin

August 5, 2025

Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. Credit: SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive,…

PPhysics

Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields

August 5, 2025

Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice…

PPhysics

Physicists discover particles that accelerate when crowded

August 4, 2025

Hundreds of 1mm metal beads are placed between two glass plates of 15 x 15 cm. Credit: Leiden…

Study reveals wild chimpanzees learn how to communicate from relatives on mom’s side, not dad’s

Scientists create gold hydride by combining gold and hydrogen under extreme conditions

Astronomers observe a giant outburst of X-ray binary RX J0440.9+4431

New measurement of free neutron lifetime achieves world-record precision

Ultrathin metallic films show tunable, directional charge flow using light at room temperature

Discovery of Planckian time limit opens doors to novel quantum technologies

Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast

New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean

Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave

Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin

Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields

Physicists discover particles that accelerate when crowded