Scientists discover limits to information erasure in viscous fluids
In viscous fluids like honey, where turbulence is absent, true mixing is challenging as it requires an interplay…
Probing stress and magnetism at high pressures with two-dimensional quantum sensors
Doherty, M. W. et al. Electronic properties and metrology applications of the diamond NV-center under pressure. Phys. Rev.…
Graphene reveals electrons that behave like frictionless fluid and break textbook rules
Top Left: 3D atomistic model of the graphene device. Bottom Left: Top view of the actual device, as…
Experiment demonstrates ultrafast light control of ferroelectric properties
Photoinduced structural dynamics and time evolution of strain. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63045-6 Ferroelectrics are seen as…
Scientists decode new black hole behavior from gravitational wave data – news.cgtn.com
Scientists decode new black hole behavior from gravitational wave data news.cgtn.comLIGO, facing threats of closure, more than doubles its…
Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
Worlds Largest Neutrino Detector Is Collecting Data In China
To say that neutrinos aren’t the easiest particles to study would be a bit of an understatement. Outside…
Humans could finally have found a way to defy Earth’s gravity
Gravity is a key component to human life on Earth – but can this powerful force be defied?…
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records
Predicted phenotypic differences between AMHs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI:…
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most…
Dark energy may have caused the universe to expand rather than contract
For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the…
Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction
Characterization of NbOI2 nanocrystals Figure 1 a shows the crystal lattice of NbOI2. The lattice constants of NbOI2 are…