Scientists stunned by record-breaking, watermelon-shaped nucleus
For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been…
Using lasers to bring crystal vibrations to their quantum ground state
Schematic of the cavity optomechanical system. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02989-4 Using new techniques, Yale researchers have…
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said…
Study finds viruses rely on diverse RNA traits to pack their genomes with precision
By scrambling MS2’s genome, the researchers were able to observe a variety of viral packaging outcomes. The red…
New co-assembly strategy unlocks robust circularly polarized luminescence across the color spectrum
A universal strategy for creating full-color, highly efficient CPL-active materials through hierarchical chiral supramolecular assemblies. Credit: Science (2025).…
Scientists looked for axions in galaxy clusters, and it worked
Dark matter has remained one of the biggest riddles in modern physics. Astronomers know it must be there…
Rare catfish species filmed climbing waterfalls
Fish migration at the margins of Sossego waterfall in the Aquidauana River, Paraguay river basin, Mato Grosso do…
‘Mysterious Giant’ Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary : ScienceAlert
A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the…
Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first…
Entanglement and the density matrix renormalization group in the generalized Landau paradigm
Dualities We explain here how to obtain the models dual to equation (1) considered in the main text.…
Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses
The laser system is 11 meters long and generates extremely short laser pulses. Credit: Mattias Pettersson, Umea University…
100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. 100 years ago this summer, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote…