Magnetic ‘switchback’ detected near Earth for the first time
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, which consists of four spacecraft, is gathering information about magnetic reconnection around Earth. Credit:…
Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color
Illustration of the working principle and capabilities of a programmable nonlinear waveguide. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09620-9 Cornell…
Antarctic Ocean of the last ice age reveals how a critical process of COâ‚‚ storage may slow again
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and,…
Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer
The evolution of a single spin under coherent driving and spontaneous decay. TWA (solid lines) shows strong agreement…
Gravity reshapes magnetic fields in star clusters
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a star formation region in molecular cloud NGC 6334, also…
Some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labor in food supply chains
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many Americans choose food based on cost and nutrition, but personal values, such as…
Astronomers discover the most ‘pristine’ star in the known universe
Kinematic properties. The past orbit of J0715 − 7334 and the LMC in Galactic coordinates on-sky, overlaid on…
Quantum uncertainty captured in real time using femtosecond light pulses
Mohammed Hassan, associate professor of physics and optical sciences, is the corresponding author on a paper which explains…
Researchers integrate waveguide physics into metasurfaces for advanced light control
Researchers have now achieved high-Q photonic flatbands that span the entire k-space of nonlocal metasurfaces and can be…
The world’s snow leopards are very similar genetically—findings suggest that doesn’t bode well for their future
A snow leopard from Ladakh, India. Credit: Koustubh Sharma There are relatively few snow leopards in the world,…
General relativity could make life possible on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Parameter space showing the effect of GR on eccentricity oscillations due to an exterior planetary companion for a…
Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip
This schematic illustration shows the diffractive element in the high-power microcomb source separating comb lines spectrally. Credit: Michal…