‘We want more people to know about our priceless Albert Einstein blackboard’
Malia CartyBBC News, Nottingham BBC The blackboard used by Albert Einstein is the only one believed to be…
Macaws learn by watching interactions of others, a skill never seen in animals before
Credit: Springer Nature One of the most effective ways we learn is through third-party imitation, where we observe…
Chance sighting during tiger survey leads to first-of-their-kind photos in India of the smooth-coated otter
Photographs of Smooth-coated Otters captured in Nandhaur range, Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand, India. Credit: Journal of Threatened Taxa…
Scientists Watch an Atom’s Nucleus Flip in Real Time for the First Time
Artist’s impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
Graphene Electrons Violate Fundamental Law of Physics
Scientists have detected a “Dirac fluid” in graphene, where electrons flow like a nearly perfect liquid and defy…
These Strange Stars Could Reveal the True Nature of Dark Matter
A newly proposed type of stellar object, called a dark dwarf, may be hiding in the heart of…
Scientists discover needle-shaped quantum clusters
When most people think of gold, they picture jewelry or treasure. However, at the atomic scale, gold behaves…
There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought
A female jumps towards the carbon pole to cross a body of water during a Fierljeppen competition in…
Pressure induced superconductivity in hybrid Ruddlesden‒Popper La5Ni3O11 single crystals
Bednorz, J. G. & Müller, K. A. Possible high Tc superconductivity in the Ba–La–Cu–O system. Z. Phys. B:…
Friedel oscillations and chiral superconductivity in monolayer NbSe2
We consider the low-energy Hamiltonian for the metallic bands of monolayer NbSe2 $$\hat{H}={\sum} _{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\xi }_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }{\hat{c}}_{{{\bf{k}}},\sigma }^{{\dagger}…
Transient domain boundary drives ultrafast magnetisation reversal
Time-resolved magnetic soft-X-ray spectroscopy We investigate a typical nanometre-scale heterostructure consisting of an amorphous ferrimagnetic Gd25Co75 alloy with…
3D-printed micro ion traps could solve quantum tech’s miniaturization problem
Comparison of ion trap variants. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09474-1 The existing bottleneck in efficiently miniaturizing components for…