New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure
A schematic image shows a 2D sensor squeezed between two diamond anvils. Credit: Chong Zu The world of…
Seeing a trio of entangled photons in one go
Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab The concept of quantum entanglement…
Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the sun
The sun taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, showing the quiet corona and magnetic structures like coronal…
Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
An illustrative comparison of a standard refractive lens next to an ultra-flat optic developed by the research team.…
Narrow-linewidth laser on a chip sets new standard for frequency purity
Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady8963 A record-breaking development in laser technology could help support the development of…
Nano-switch achieves first directed, gated flow of excitons
From left, Zhaohan Jiang, a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering, and Matthias Florian, a research investigator…
Discovery of new moon or ring system orbiting mysterious distant planet Quaoar
Artist’s impression of the icy Kuiper belt object 2002 LM60, dubbed “Quaoar” by its discoverers. Credit: NASA and…
Pinning down protons in water—a basic science success story
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental…
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…