New work shows fluid in a curved pipe can undergo discontinuous transition
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Turbulence is everywhere, yet much about the nature of turbulence remains unknown. During the…
Southeast Pacific sediment cores are an 8-million-year-old climate archive of temperature effects on the ocean
Inside the sediment core laboratory of the research vessel JOIDES Resolution, which in 2019 recovered the core in…
Proposed approach could bridge gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics
A circulating fluxon–antifluxon pair in coupled annular Josephson junctions behaves as a detector. The pair decays due to…
A new view of the proton and its excited states
Model of the CLAS12 detector highlighting the forward detector used for detection of the scattered electron and the…
QROCODILE experiment advances search for dark matter using superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
The QROCODILE experiment. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/4hb6-f6jl Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide…
The physics of speed and size
Droplet Bouncing. Credit: Anton Souslov When a droplet of liquid the size of a grain of icing sugar…
Astronomers confirm wandering black hole in nearby dwarf galaxy
Artistic illustration (Image generated by ChatGPT). Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences Traditionally, black holes are usually thought to…
Simulations solve centuries-old cosmic mystery—and discover new class of ancient star systems
A globular cluster (white concentration of stars) naturally emerges in the high resolution EDGE simulations. These simulations also…
An exploding black hole could reveal the foundations of the universe
This artist’s concept takes a fanciful approach to imagining small primordial black holes. In reality, such tiny black…
A hungry star is eating its cosmic twin at a rate never seen before
Double star V Sagittae—10,000 light years from Earth—is burning bright because greedy white dwarf is gorging on its…
What is a quantum computer’s speed limit? Entanglement can provide an answer
Example of an edge case in the three-partite system ËœAAB. As two eigenvalues avoid a level crossing, they…
Using pulsar accelerations to detect a dark matter sub-halo in the Milky Way for the first time
Posterior distribution showing derived properties of a dark matter sub-halo. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.16932 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti,…