What’s the lifetime of a Dyson megaswarm?
Artist’s depiction of a Dyson swarm. Credit: Vedexent at Wikipedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0…
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…
Hot, hot gold; mechanisms of face recognition; first pathway of gut-brain communication
Researchers at SLAC’s Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument used a laser to superheat a sample of gold.…
World’s smallest snake makes big comeback
The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados. A snake so small…
Researchers create safer nonstick surface, cutting use of ‘forever chemicals’
This piece of fabric is coated with the new non-stick material made via the nanoscale fletching technique. The…
New AI tool accelerates mRNA-based treatments for viruses, cancers, genetic disorders
Subtle differences in an mRNA sequence enables a ribosome to produce more or less of a certain protein.…
Theory-guided strategy expands the scope of measurable quantum interactions
Illustration diagram of the ANUBIS setup with the polarized neutron scattering technique. Credit: arXiv: DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2403.13990 A new…
Rare intermediate-mass black hole caught devouring star in distant galaxy
A Hubble Space Telescope image of a pair of galaxies: NGC 6099 (lower left) and NGC 6098 (upper…
Spin waves observed directly at nanoscale for first time
Artistic depiction of a spin wave. Credit: Demie Kepaptsoglou. For the first time, spin waves, also known as…
First direct images reveal atomic thermal vibrations in quantum materials
Illustration of experimental measurement of thermal vibrations in a single atom. Credit: Yichao Zhang et al. Researchers investigating…
Heliostats could be used to detect asteroids, says researcher
Scientist John Sandusky stands in the field of heliostats at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. John conducted…
Metasurfaces could be the next quantum information processors
Artistic representation of metasurface quantum graphs. Credit: Joshua Mornhinweg In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks,…