Quantum ‘curvature’ warps electron flow, hinting at new electronics possibilities
Optical image of two patterned Hall bar devices oriented along orthogonal directions on the SrTiO3 surface. The green…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
Rare oceanic plate delamination may explain Portugal’s mysterious earthquakes
A delaminating block could reproduce the structure observed in the tomography model. The serpentinized layer decouples the crustal…
Habitable planet potential increases in the outer galaxy
Longstanding model of the galactic habitable zone, which is estimated to exist between 7-9 kiloparsecs from the center…
Radio emission observations reveal delayed outflow from a tidal disruption event
Radio light curves of WTP 14adeqka in selected frequencies from archival and targeted VLA observations (main panel) along…
Quantum entanglement lasts 600 times longer in elusive dark states, study finds
Cavity coupled QDs and detuning. a A schematic of an air-suspended hole-CBG cavity in InAs/GaAs membrane and photon…
Program brings greater understanding to star and galaxy formation
“One of the goals of the Webb telescope is to find the first stars, the first galaxies,” Danilo…
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…
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…
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…