The US just got a new X-ray laser toolkit to study nature’s mysteries
Georgi Dakovski, SLAC lead scientist and qRIXS instrument lead, stands beside the qRIXS instrument. SLAC researchers have introduced…
Organic molecule achieves both strong light emission and absorption for displays and imaging
This image depicts the structure of the proposed organic molecule, alongside the energy level diagrams of two-photon absorption…
North Atlantic faces more hurricane clusters as climate warms
This image from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite on September 14, 2020, shows five tropical systems spinning in the Atlantic…
New theory may solve quantum ‘jigsaw puzzle’ for controlling chemical reactions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other chemical ways to…
Physicists capture elusive instability and exotic vortices
The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI).…
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…