New research reveals surprising ancestry
‘Tanzania’ variety of sweetpotato. Credit: Benard Yada at National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Uganda The sweet potato…
Chitons offer blueprint for advanced dental and industrial materials
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan’s Okayama and Toho universities have…
New study reveals surprising clues about the beginning of subduction on Earth
Olivine cumulate from the Weltevreden Formation showing that although these cumulates are significantly altered, they still contain preserved…
Scientists discover way to pause ultrafast melting in silicon using precisely timed laser pulses
Excitation scheme. Credit: Tobias Zier A team of physicists has discovered a method to temporarily halt the ultrafast…
Researchers overcome long-standing bottleneck in single photon detection with twisted 2D materials
Homogeneity of the devices. Credit: Science (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adu5329 The ability to detect single photons (the smallest energy…
Giant seas are just the ocean’s ‘bad day’
A size comparison of the “Draupner Wave” to 3 school buses stacked horizontally on top of one another.…
Shedding light on ‘the cosmic grapes’
An artist’s impression of the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy, composed of at least 15 massive star forming clumps—far more…
Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms
Ultrashort, high-intensity X-ray laser pulses trigger controlled explosions of molecules—making it possible to capture high-resolution images of molecular…
Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy harbors what may be the most massive black hole ever detected
Another image of the Cosmic Horseshoe, but with the pair of images of a second background source highlighted.…
Ultrafast light switch achieved with asymmetric silicon metasurfaces in nanophotonics
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In nanophotonics, tiny structures are used to control light at the nanoscale and render…
Strange dwarf pulsars proposed as source of ultra-long-period radio transients
The death valley of strange dwarf pulsars in the magnetic-field—period diagram. Credit: ZHOU Xia Researchers led by Prof.…
Cloud–cloud collision sparks active star formation in Milky Way
The distribution of the two colliding molecular clouds (with blue and red indicating the blue-shifted and red-shifted clouds,…