Room-temperature reactor uses electrochemistry to boost nuclear fusion rates
The Thunderbird Reactor is a custom-made, bench-top-sized particle accelerator and electrochemical reactor built by an interdisciplinary team at…
Deep beneath the French Alps, scientists hunt for dark matter
A DAMIC-M detector module with four CCDs. The module is enclosed in a high-purity copper frame for installation…
Where are the interstellar objects 1I/’Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/Atlas headed now?
Artist’s impression of Ê»Oumuamua. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs)…
Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old
This speleothem is covered by younger layers, the youngest of which is dated to 228 ± 1 ka…
Accidental double zoom reveals millimeter waves around supermassive black hole
Artist’s rendering of the corona around a black hole. Credit: RIKEN An international team of astronomers led by…
Grimm classics may counter negative effects of internet browsing
Classic fairy tales may shield people from the negative impact of internet browsing, new study finds. Credit: JMIR…
Transforming the tip of a mechanical pencil lead into a high-quality electron beam source
Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated that graphitizing the fractured surface of a mechanical pencil lead enables…
Theoretical study reveals failure of key quark-gluon plasma probe in low-energy region
Scaling of hadronic elliptic flow as a function of center-of-mass energy in heavy-ion collisions. The top (bottom) panels show…
Mathematical model reveals how collapsing matter and expanding voids shape universe’s evolution
The plot represents the new model with the x-axis and the y-axis showing the minimum sizes of collapsing…
Ultra-thin materials twist light into optical vortices for faster data transmission
Passing circularly-polarized light through certain van der Waals materials causing the beam to spiral. Credit: Jaegang Jo et…
Scientists discover new phenomenon in chiral symmetry breaking
Novel spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking with in a single crystal. Credit: Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a single…
Physicists create stable, ‘breathing’ solitons in settings without energy conservation
Breathing nonreciprocal soliton. Credit: Physical Review X (2025). DOI: 10.1103/nrv2-9h8z Solitonic waves—waves that keep their shape and direction…