Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old ‘proto Earth’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which…
Ultrafast topological control | Nature Physics
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Software solution can correct image blurring by James Webb Space Telescope
Before and after the image sharpening process. Credit: Max Charles/University of Sydney A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students…
Tidal forces heat white dwarfs to unexpected temperatures in tight binary orbits
Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow)…
Nodal hybridization in a two-dimensional heavy-fermion material
Andres, K., Graebner, J. E. & Ott, H. R. 4f-virtual-bound-state formation in CeAl3 at low temperatures. Phys. Rev.…
The first eight | Nature Physics
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Inside the 2025 Nobel Prize in physics
This illustration shows, from left to right: John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis. Credit: Niklas Elmehed, Nobel…
Gravity vs magnetism: Star-forming interaction revealed
This image, taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, shows a portion of molecular cloud NGC 6334, popularly known…
Levitation Breakthrough: Scientists Create Levitating Disk That Requires No External Power
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have achieved a levitation breakthrough by creating a virtually frictionless,…
Island spider sheds half its genome, defying evolutionary expectations
The sequencing of the genomes of a spider from the mainland (Dysdera catalonica, left) and one from the…
Direct evidence of universal anyon tunneling in a chiral Luttinger liquid revealed in edge-mode experiment
Image showing the actual device measured in the experiment. The GaAs chip is mounted on a PCB board…
Hunting for Pairs of Monster Black Holes
When galaxies collide, it’s not a gentle affair but it does take millions of years. Over this time…