Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two-oscillator quantum engine. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw8462 Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven…
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell…
Framework models light-matter interactions in nonlinear optical microscopy to determine atomic structure
From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering; Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor…
Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer
Schematic representation of intermolecular coulombic decay and proton transfer in liquid water. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61912-w…
Ancient lead exposure may have shaped evolution of human brain
Infographic shows lead exposure to humans in modern times versus our ancestors; how teeth fossil and brain tissue…
Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice, researchers say
NASA’s Phoenix mission in 2008 was the first to excavate down and capture photos of ice, pictured here,…
Record-breaking gamma ray burst seems to be caused by a black hole engulfed by a bloated star
The combined, background-subtracted gamma-ray lightcurve of GRBÂ 250702B. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.22792 On July 2, 2025, NASA’s Fermi…
Astronomers detect radio signals from a black hole tearing apart a star—outside a galactic center
Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the…
Gaia provides a deep look into the galactic open cluster NGC 2506
Proper motion density distribution of stars in the NGC 2506 field, based on Gaia DR3 data. Credit: arXiv…
A new attempt to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe
by Birgit Kinkeldey, Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM) Expansion of the universe. Credit: Christian Pfeifer (AI-assisted)…
Exploring the hidden rings of the Milky Way
The MeerKAT radio telescopes. Credit: Square Kilometer Array Organization (SKAO) / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) Radio…
Researchers achieve atomic-scale control of quantum interference
Electric control of the energy detuning of a single Ti spin. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64022-9 In…