Structured light manipulates material properties and reveals atomic changes in nanocrystals
Visualization of strain and cracking in a bismuth tungstate nanoparticle under various environmental conditions. Credit: Advanced Materials (2025).…
Astronomers catch supermassive black hole in the act of ‘waking up’
Top panel: the cluster of galaxies (white/violet) and its hot gaseous atmosphere (blue); bottom right panel: NSF VLBA…
Massive magnets are on the move: Repurposing electromagnets for research
Left to right: The BaBar solenoid magnet at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before its move to Brookhaven. (SLAC)…
Next-level pixel-particle analogy uses quantum-inspired math to clarify noisy medical images
A medical image denoising method based on principles of quantum mechanics outperform machine learning, statistical methods, and neural…
‘Pop III.1’ model explains origins of black holes and early cosmic ionization
Computer simulation of the ionized bubble around a Population III.1 supermassive star, progenitor of a supermassive black hole,…
Researchers discover all-new antifungal drug candidate in campus greenhouse
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans under attack by a new drug candidate discovered at McMaster University. The new…
Scientists find 74-million-year-old mammal fossil in Chile
This illustration by Mauricio Alvarez depicts ‘Yeutherium pressor,’ a tiny mammal that lived in the time of the…
Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst, just 3 billion years after Big Bang
Dynamic spectrum and polarization profile of FRB 20240304B. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.01648 Using the MeerKAT radio telescope,…
New 3D topological phase of matter exhibits anomalous symmetry at non-zero temperatures
Image depicting the phase transition that occurs in our model as a function of the temperature. The model…
Fresh fossil finds in Africa shed light on the era before Earth’s largest mass extinction
Jacqueline Lungmus, an assistant professor of geosciences at the University of Oklahoma and UW undergraduate alum; Kenneth Angielczyk,…
New research reveals surprising ancestry
‘Tanzania’ variety of sweetpotato. Credit: Benard Yada at National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Uganda The sweet potato…
Ultra-metal-poor star discovered in Milky Way’s halo
On-sky location of GDR3_526285, Small Magellanic Cloud, and Large Magellanic Cloud in Galactic coordinates. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal…