Nearby pulsar offers insights into emission physics near the death line
Pulse stacks of PSR J2129+4119 observed on September 29, 2024, showing three distinct behaviors: steady drifting (left), intermittent…
A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole…
Simulations suggest the early universe helped black holes grow big, but not in the long run
Illustration of a black hole growing at an extremely fast (super-Eddington) rate. Credit: NOIRLab/AURA/NSF/P. Marenfeld At the heart…
Paradox of rotating turbulence finally tamed with ‘hurricane-in-a-lab’
By rehabilitating Taylor-Couette flows with Kolmogorov’s small-scale universality, researchers have created a powerful baseline for the study of…
Are the cosmic voids truly empty?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain If we take out all the matter, neutrinos, dark matter, cosmic rays, and radiation…
Plasma lens can focus attosecond pulses across different ranges of XUV light
a, An attosecond pulse enters a capillary, where a strong electrical pulse generates a hydrogen plasma. As the…
Two independent quantum networks successfully fused into one
Scheme of quantum network fusion, network architecture and operation principle. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01792-0 Many quantum…
Superconducting qubit that lasts for over 1 millisecond is primed for industrial scaling
A Princeton team has reported their new qubit lasts for over 1 millisecond, three times longer than the…
Are there different types of black holes? New method puts Einstein to the test
At the current resolution of telescopes, black holes predicted by different theories of gravity still look very similar.…
Scientists produce powerhouse pigment behind octopus camouflage
An octopus camouflages itself with the seafloor. Credit: Charlotte Seid Scientists at UC San Diego have moved one…
Thin-film strontium titanate sets electro-optic performance record at cryogenic temperatures
(a) Thin-film 200-mm strontium titanate (SrTiO3) grown on silicon wafer. (b) Transmission electron microscope image highlighting the crystallinity…
Pink sea anemone that ‘builds a home’ for hermit crabs discovered off Japan’s deep-sea coast
Paracalliactis tsukisome, a newly discovered sea anemone living in symbiosis with hermit crabs on the deep-sea floor off…