Machine Learning Discovers Quasars Acting as Lenses
Quasars acting as strong gravitational lenses are among the rarest finds in astronomy. Out of nearly 300,000 quasars…
HD⁺ ions cooled to 18 mK yield most precise vibrational-rotational spectra to date
Synergistically cooled Be⁺-HD⁺ ion crystal and molecular dynamics simulation. Credit: APM A research team from the Innovation Academy…
An Explanation For The JWST’s Puzzling Early Galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope didn’t need much time to show us how wrong we were about the…
Higher CO₂ levels are making our food more calorific and less nutritious
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain More CO2 in the atmosphere is making food crops more caloric, less nutritious and…
Electrical control of spin currents in graphene via ferroelectric switching achieved
Characteristics of the graphene/In2Se3 heterostructure transport device that shows the spin chirality switch. Credit: Martin Gmitra from the…
Physicists Discover Our Solar System May Be Breaking the Cosmic Speed Limit
Credit: Unsplash/Greg Rakozy. Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental…
ALMA resolves close companion orbiting giant red star
Hydrodynamic simulation of the accretion disk around companion π1 Gru C. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02697-2 Close…
Controlling triple quantum dots in a zinc oxide semiconductor
(a) The schematic of the fabricated ZnO device. Two-dimensional electron gas is formed between (Mg, Zn)O and ZnO.…
Decoupling structural molecular dynamics from excited state lifetimes using few-femtosecond ultraviolet resonant dispersive waves
It can be seen from the transient analysis presented in Fig. 3 that two exponential decay pathways play a…
Unraveling the mysteries of radio relics
Arc-like shock waves travel outwards during a galaxy cluster merger, converting an enormous amount of energy into heat.…
The Standard Cosmological Model Is The Simplest Model Of The Universe, But Not The Only One
So if the standard model of cosmology is wrong, what alternative is there? For the past couple of…
Lead from Ancient Rome Used to Shield Sensitive Physics Experiments
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site’s best, funniest,…