Agriculture’s impact on soil erosion goes back earlier than thought
Tropical rivers carry large amounts of eroded soils into the sea every year. Credit: Johanna Ciella, CC BY-SA…
A quantum gas that refuses to heat—physicists observe many-body dynamical localization
Despite being continually kicked and strongly interacting, the atoms no longer absorb energy. The system localizes in momentum…
How chaetognaths got their unique body plan
Microphotographs of whole-mount in situ hybridization staining for selected markers in juvenile stages. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09403-2…
Money as the dark matter of the universe
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Researchers observe evidence of hyperbolic exciton polaritons
Hyperbolic region in chromium sulfur bromide (CrSBr): a) The metallized tapping tip of a scattering-type scanning near-field optical…
Coffee fortified with iron—new microparticles can be added to food and beverages to fight malnutrition
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Around the world, about 2 billion people suffer from iron deficiency, which can lead…
Luis Walter Alvarez’s eclectic career
Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium…
What happens when you cross the point of no return?
Black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel and collapse under their own gravity. This collapse…
Energy-efficient ultracompact laser reduces light loss in all directions
The chip with the hexagon-shaped laser cavities. Credit: NTU Singapore An international team of scientists led by Nanyang…
An impossible signal detected in the vacuum of the universe—a discovery that could rewrite the laws of physics, according to astronomers
A mystery signal in space has shocked scientists, what could have been? Imagine listening to the universe, yes,…
Scientists achieve first observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals
The phonon AM-induced mechanical rotation and torque. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02952-3 In a new study published…
The cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist — 66-billion-sun monster breaks the rules
To a lot of enthusiasts, the figure 66 billion might seem out of reach, but for seasoned astronomers,…