Cosmic ray puzzle resolved as scientists link ‘knee’ formation to black holes
LHAASO experiment. Credit: LHAASO Collaboration Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on…
Humans have sensitive hands; solar system travels 3 times faster than predicted
Lesser yellowlegs. Credit: Russ, Wikimedia Commons, CC license attribution It’s the third of a generous five Saturdays in…
If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension
An illustration showing how Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) expand with the universe. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute CC-BY-4.0…
Raman quantum memory demonstrates near-unity performance
The team’s experimental setup. Credit: APS, Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/kbwj-md9n. Over the past decades, quantum physicists…
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot whales eat resolved
An aerial view of Hawai’i short-finned pilot whales at the surface. Credit: HIMB Marine Mammal Research Program How…
When space junk comes home
Deployment of Starlink Satellites by SpaceX. Credit: SpaceX Early one February morning in 2025, Adam Borucki discovered something…
Demand for JWST’s observational time hits a new peak
Artist’s depiction of potential observational targets for JWST. Credit: STScI Getting time on the James Webb Space Telescope…
ESA pinpoints 3I/ATLAS’s path with data from Mars
Between 1 and 7 October, our Mars orbiters Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observed the comet…
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…
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…
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…