Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin
Merging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. Credit: SXS, CC BY-ND Black holes are massive,…
Scientists capture real-time melting of 2D skyrmion lattices using magnetic fields
Snapshots of the skyrmion lattice during the melting: an ordered skyrmion lattice on the left while the lattice…
Physicists discover particles that accelerate when crowded
Hundreds of 1mm metal beads are placed between two glass plates of 15 x 15 cm. Credit: Leiden…
Scientists produce quantum entanglement-like results without entangled particles in new experiment
Four-photon FI. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr1794 In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in…
Scientists shrink the genetic code of E. coli to contain only 57 of its usual 64 codons
Bacteria with a synthetic genome. Credit: Larissa Ulisko The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many…
Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field
An area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes. Most are circles or…
Single-photon source created using defective tungsten diselenide
Magnetic field enhanced single-photon emission from defects in two-dimensional semiconductors. Credit: Kyoto U / Matsuda lab As the…
IceCube neutrino search sets first constraints on proton fraction of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays
In this artistic rendering, based on a real image of the IceCube Lab, a high-energy starting event is…
Distorted sound of the early universe suggests we are living in a giant void
Baryon acoustic oscillations represent the sound of the Big Bang. Credit: Gabriela Secara, Perimeter Institute, CC BY-SA Looking…
Primordial black holes could act as seeds for quasars
Infographic describing the best current theory on the evolution of PBHs. Credit: NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center Plenty of…
Hybrid crystal-glass materials from meteorites transform heat control
The article discusses how increasing disorder in the atomic structure of materials influences macroscopic heat conduction—a critical property…
Physicists show tensor mesons play important role in light-on-light scattering
Light is scattered by light—via virtual particles. Credit: Vienna University of Technology Usually, light waves can pass through…