SScience Read More Astronomers discover the most ‘pristine’ star in the known universeOctober 8, 2025 Kinematic properties. The past orbit of J0715 − 7334 and the LMC in Galactic coordinates on-sky, overlaid on…
PPhysics Read More Quantum uncertainty captured in real time using femtosecond light pulsesOctober 8, 2025 Mohammed Hassan, associate professor of physics and optical sciences, is the corresponding author on a paper which explains…
PPhysics Read More Researchers integrate waveguide physics into metasurfaces for advanced light controlOctober 8, 2025 Researchers have now achieved high-Q photonic flatbands that span the entire k-space of nonlocal metasurfaces and can be…
WWildlife Read More The world’s snow leopards are very similar genetically—findings suggest that doesn’t bode well for their futureOctober 8, 2025 A snow leopard from Ladakh, India. Credit: Koustubh Sharma There are relatively few snow leopards in the world,…
SScience Read More General relativity could make life possible on planets orbiting white dwarfsOctober 8, 2025 Parameter space showing the effect of GR on eccentricity oscillations due to an exterior planetary companion for a…
PPhysics Read More Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chipOctober 8, 2025 This schematic illustration shows the diffractive element in the high-power microcomb source separating comb lines spectrally. Credit: Michal…
PPhysics Read More Gravitational lenses imaged by Webb during its first runOctober 8, 2025 A collage of eight Webb images of gravitational lensing, each showing various distorted galaxies in the center of…
PPhysics Read More New study rules out binary hardening as cause of Dimorphos’s orbital period dropOctober 8, 2025 Gravitational scattering of ejecta cannot explain the observed period drop of Dimorphos. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL A new…
PPhysics Read More Plasma rampdown prediction model could improve reliability of fusion power plantsOctober 8, 2025 A shot-by-shot breakdown of every shot in the experiment. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63917-x Tokamaks are machines…
PPhysics Read More Physicists develop new quantum sensor at the atomic lattice scaleOctober 8, 2025 Working principle of the quantum electrometer. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61839-2 From computer chips to quantum dots—technological…
PPhysics Read More First device based on ‘optical thermodynamics’ can route light without switchesOctober 8, 2025 Credit: Yunxuan Wei at USC. A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer…
SScience Read More Rare intersex spider among new species discovered in ThailandOctober 8, 2025 Credit: Zootaxa (2025). DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5696.3.6 A new species of spider was recently discovered near a forested area in…