Virtual reality can help people understand and care about distant communities
A study participant in front of an image of a city. Credit: Jeremy Bailenson / Stanford For many…
Hidden ‘Planet-Killer’ Asteroid Found in Sun’s Glare Exposes Dangerous Blind Spot
“Twilight” discovery: Astronomers have spotted a 700-meter-wide asteroid lurking in the sun’s glare, designated 2025 SC79, which orbits…
Artificial light is drowning out the Moon: here is what city bright lights are doing to humans and other species
Many city slickers may find it hard to comprehend, but the moon used to be the brightest source…
The world needs a better way to share genetic information
Biology is in the middle of a transformation. Over the past five years new sequencing techniques have made…
Amplifying collective light emission with atomic interactions
Visualization of atoms placed in an optical cavity, interacting with each other as well as with the light…
Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure
From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering; Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor…
Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
Schematic representation of intermolecular coulombic decay and proton transfer in liquid water. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61912-w…
Astronomers detect radio signals from a black hole tearing apart a star—outside a galactic center
Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the…
Gaia provides a deep look into the galactic open cluster NGC 2506
Proper motion density distribution of stars in the NGC 2506 field, based on Gaia DR3 data. Credit: arXiv…
A rare variety of wheat with three ovaries—gene discovery could triple production
A representative MOV-wheat spikelet (a) and spike (b) showing the effect of the Mov-1 locus on grain number.…
A new attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe
by Birgit Kinkeldey, Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM) Expansion of the universe. Credit: Christian Pfeifer (AI-assisted)…
3D-printed metamaterials harness complex geometry to dampen mechanical vibrations
This 3-D printed kagome tube can passively isolate vibrations using its complex, but deliberate, structure. Credit: James McInerney,…