A light-programmable, dynamic ultrasound wavefront
Fig. 1. Optically Programmable Array of Transducers (OPAT) uses light to shape ultrasonic fields. Credit: Rahul Goyal, from…
Crystalline material conducts heat even worse than glass and water—and that’s promising
Postdoc Peter Skjøtt Thorup from Aarhus University holds a small sample of the crystalline material AgGaGe3Se8, which he…
Particle detector proves precision as it prepares to probe properties of quark-gluon plasma
Caption:The sPHENIX detector is the newest experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and is…
New modeling indicates 100-year-old geological theory on the Himalayas may have been wrong all along
Model-data comparison. Credit: Tectonics (2025). DOI: 10.1029/2025TC009057 For the last century, Émile Argand’s theory on the formation and…
10% drop in COâ‚‚ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave
Sea surface temperatures on 29 October 2023. The colors show how much the monthly temperature deviates from the…
Quantum emitter discovery in diamonds enables a new type of coupling
An NV-hosting nanodiamond on an AFM tip probes a topological waveguide. Suppressing RCP emission at 710 nm reveals…
After viral video of giant manta ray capture, bipartisan Florida lawmakers want change
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Earlier this summer, a viral video ignited a wave of outrage across Florida: Five…
Solar flares may be 6.5 times hotter than previously thought
A solar limb flare with a comparatable scale of Earth. Credit: Created by Alexander Russell (University of Andrews)…
Physicists pinpoint boundary where nuclear shell model breaks down
The ISOLDE facility at CERN. Credit: CERN An experiment carried out at CERN’s ISOLDE facility has determined the…
Explaining a quantum oddity with five atoms 
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov…
Quantum researchers observe real-time switching of magnet in heart of single atom
Artist impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Magnetic fields in infant universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet
Credit: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of…