Slowly spinning dark matter halos may explain mysterious ‘little red dots’ in the early universe
Distant galaxies appear scattered across the night sky in this deep field image from the James Webb Space…
How we did it and why it’s historic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A major breakthrough in quantum technology was achieved in October 2024: the first-ever quantum…
Powerful form of quantum interference paves the way for phonon-based technologies
Rendering of a two-dimensional metal (middle layer) intercalated between a layer of graphene (top) and silicon carbide (bottom).…
Quantum dot technique improves multi-photon state generation
The new approach uses a purely optical technique called stimulated two-photon excitation to generate streams of photons in…
Experimental device demonstrates how electron beams reconfigure plasma structure
Changes in MHD equilibrium before and after flux rope merging. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09345-9 In a scientific…
Dancing dwarf galaxies predict the Milky Way’s future
A high-resolution color image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the…
A giant virus wags its tail
Tail attachment. Scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron micrographs of the Pelagodinium PelV1 system at the early stages…
A ‘mysterious giant’ behind binary black holes? Astronomers uncover first evidence of a third compact object
Gravitational wave events released by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. Credit: SHAO The binary black holes in the universe are…
Some young suns align with their planet-forming disks, others are born tilted
Artist’s rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.…
Archaeologists find oldest evidence of humans on ‘Hobbit’s’ island neighbor—who they were remains a mystery
Stone tools were excavated from Calio, Sulawesi, and dated to over 1.04 million years ago. The scale bars…
Ocean sediments might support theory that comet impact triggered Younger Dryas cool-off
Examples of Fe-rich and silica-rich impact microspherules (a and b) and metallic dust particles (MDPs; c and d)…
A new open-source program for quantum physics helps researchers obtain results in record time
Schematic of the RK4 steps. Dark green objects mark real or complex buffers while blue objects mark the…