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…
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…
First full simulation of 50-qubit universal quantum computer achieved
View between the racks of JUPITER. Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / Sascha Kreklau A research team at the Jülich…
Never mind rogue planets—their rogue moons could support life
An artist’s illustration of an Earth-mass rogue planet drifting through space. New research shows that rogue planets sent…
How to spot life in the clouds on other worlds
Artist concept of a cloudy Earth-like exoplanet with colorful biota in the clouds. Credit: Adam B. Langeveld/Carl Sagan…
Neanderthal DNA helps explain how faces form
Model of increased Neanderthal enhancer activity and the hypothesized impact on jaw development. Credit: Development (2025). DOI: 10.1242/dev.204779…
Euclid has eight extra years of fuel—a scientist has a brilliant plan to use it
Artist’s depiction of Euclid in space. Credit: ESA/C. Carreau It’s almost become expected that many space telescopes and…
Scientists miniaturize quantum optics to boost next-gen processors
Germany has taken another major step toward realizing scalable quantum computers with the launch of SmaraQ, a collaborative…
New AI framework can uncover space physics equations in raw data
The overall PhyE2E framework. Top: the training dataset was augmented with a large-scale synthetic dataset generated by an…
Scientists observe a new form of temporal order
Artistic visualization of a “time rondeau crystal,” where driven 13 carbon nuclear spins in diamond display both order…
New quantum sensing method measures three light properties at once with high precision
Experimental scheme for simultaneous estimation of three parameters. Credit: The European Physical Journal Plus (2025). DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06805-z A…