Discovery of Planckian time limit opens doors to novel quantum technologies
Image of heavy electrons with quantum entanglement on CeRhSn. Credit: Takuto Nakamura and Shin-ichi Kimura A joint research…
Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast
Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk distorted by a shock front created by an expanding bubble. Credit: ALMA…
New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean
An iceberg spotted near the most southern point of the research cruise’s transect highlights some of the challenges…
Scientists uncover 75,000-year-old Arctic animal remains in Norwegian cave
Cave contents. Credit: Trond Klungseth Lødøen Scientists have uncovered the remains of a vast animal community that lived…
Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. Credit: SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive,…
Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields
Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice…
Physicists discover particles that accelerate when crowded
Hundreds of 1mm metal beads are placed between two glass plates of 15 x 15 cm. Credit: Leiden…
Scientists produce quantum entanglement-like results without entangled particles in new experiment
Four-photon FI. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr1794 In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in…
Scientists shrink the genetic code of E. coli to contain only 57 of its usual 64 codons
Bacteria with a synthetic genome. Credit: Larissa Ulisko The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many…
Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field
An area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes. Most are circles or…
Single-photon source created using defective tungsten diselenide
Magnetic field enhanced single-photon emission from defects in two-dimensional semiconductors. Credit: Kyoto U / Matsuda lab As the…
IceCube neutrino search sets first constraints on proton fraction of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab, a high-energy starting event is…