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,…
Newly derived optical formula shines a light on organic crystal altermagnet candidate
Composite image showing the experimental setup and sample details. Credit: Satoshi Iguchi et al Researchers have uncovered the…
Cicadas sing in perfect sync with pre-dawn light
Power spectra of dawn choruses at location I. Colored thin lines are raw power spectral densities of the…
Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day
Captured at a location called Falbreen, on May 26, 2025, 96 images were stitched together to create this…