SSpace Read More Many mini-Neptunes once thought to be lava worlds may actually have solid surfacesNovember 5, 2025 A new study finds that many “mini-Neptunes”—perhaps the most common planets in the galaxy—are under so much pressure…
PPhysics Read More Parabolic flight experiment highlights flame dynamics in microgravityNovember 5, 2025 Credit: J. van Loon Casting a swirling shadow, a glowing candle flame sways eerily before flaring up once…
SScience Read More Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the testNovember 5, 2025 At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar.…
PPhysics Read More Superconducting qubit that lasts for over 1 millisecond is primed for industrial scalingNovember 5, 2025 A Princeton team has reported their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond, three times longer than the…
PPhysics Read More Thin-film strontium titanate sets electro-optic performance record at cryogenic temperaturesNovember 5, 2025 (a) Thin-film 200-mm strontium titanate (SrTiO3) grown on silicon wafer. (b) Transmission electron microscope image highlighting the crystallinity…
SScience Read More Scientists produce powerhouse pigment behind octopus camouflageNovember 5, 2025 An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor. Credit: Charlotte Seid Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one…
SSpace Read More Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long runNovember 5, 2025 Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld At the heart…
PPhysics Read More Physicists achieve high precision in measuring strontium atoms using rubidium neighborNovember 5, 2025 Small clouds of strontium atoms (blue) and rubidium atoms (red) are trapped together. The well-known properties of rubidium…
WWildlife Read More Pink sea anemone that ‘builds a home’ for hermit crabs discovered off Japan’s deep-sea coastNovember 5, 2025 Paracalliactis tsukisome, a newly discovered sea anemone living in symbiosis with hermit crabs on the deep-sea floor off…
PPhysics Read More Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devicesNovember 5, 2025 A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…
PPhysics Read More Picture of universe getting clearer—but much remains unknownNovember 5, 2025 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Even though we can explore the universe with great precision, there is still a…
SSpace Read More International Space Station nears its end. Inside NASA’s planNovember 5, 2025 Plans are underway to determine how best in the years ahead to retire and deorbit the aging International…