Multiple new species of ‘living fossil’ fish found hiding in plain sight after more than 150 years
Reconstruction of a large mawsoniid coelacanth from the British Rhaetian. Credit: Daniel Phillips The modern coelacanth is a…
Twisted bilayer graphene reveals two distinct strongly interacting topological phases
Electron interaction plays a critical role in the Hofstadter energy spectrum of moiré quantum materials. Credit: Minhao He.…
A new way to control terahertz light for faster electronics
Credit: Leonardo Viti et al In a breakthrough for next-generation technologies, scientists have learned how to precisely control…
Physicists devise an idea for lasers that shoot beams of neutrinos
Comparison of the SR and ordinary fluorescence decay rates in 86Rb. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/l3c1-yg2l…
Physicists create a new kind of time crystal that humans can actually see
Spatial configuration, temporal periodicity and many-body interactions of continuous space-time crystals. Credit: Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02344-1 Imagine…
Watch: AI-powered robot dog plays badminton against humans, and it’s good
In a breakthrough that blends robotics, artificial intelligence, and sports, researchers at ETH Zurich have successfully trained a…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
How NASA made exoplanets into tourist destinations
“Like Luke Skywalker’s planet “Tatooine” in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Kepler-16b is a gas…
Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most…
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
Flexoelectricity in ice electrification events. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02995-6 A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that…
Genetic tools identify lost human relatives from fossil records
Predicted phenotypic differences between AMHs, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI:…