When chimps helped cool the planet
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As the world mourns Jane Goodall, the pioneering chimpanzee scientist and campaigner who died…
DNA repair mechanisms help explain why naked mole-rats live a long life
Naked mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber) eating. Credit: Ltshears – Trisha M Shears, public domain, via Wikimedia Naked mole-rats are…
A new scalable approach to realize a quantum communication network based on ytterbium-171 atoms
Science cell with tweezer forming objective lenses. Credit: Covey Lab. Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers,…
Rules for creating quasiparticles that can power optical computers, quantum devices
The research team tested materials ranging, from films with randomly arranged molecules to more organized molecular crystals to…
Controlling atomic interactions in ultracold gas ‘at the push of a button’
Two-color engineering of Floquet-Feshbach resonances. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw3856 Changing interactions between the smallest particles at…
Stable ferroaxial states offer a new type of light-controlled non-volatile memory
Terahertz light can reversibly switch an unusual form of structural order in solids—called ferroaxiality—between clockwise and counterclockwise rotational…
By removing common biases, study debunks U-shaped happiness curve with age
A causal diagram illustrating overcontrol bias. Arrows order variables in time and show possible direct causal effects. Notes:…
Investigating genetic structure and predicted habitat expansion of endemic tree species in Southeast Asia
Credit: University of Tsukuba Researchers at University of Tsukuba have investigated the genetic diversity and future distribution of…
Unified model explains extreme jet streams on all giant planets
The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn exhibit eastward-flowing equatorial jet streams, while the ice giants Uranus and Neptune…
Strain engineering enhances spin readout in quantum technologies, study shows
(a) Schematic diagram of the change of hh-divacancy due to the transverse strain εt of (xx−yy). The c-axis…
Sped-up evolution may help bacteria take hold in gut microbiome
Genome plasticity and protein evolution by Bacteroides diversity-generating retroelements. DGRs rapidly evolve ligand-binding proteins and are enriched in…
Scientists use X-ray laser to identify new room-temperature phase
Optical images measured simultaneously with five types of P–t curve. Credit: Nature Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02364-x Ice cream…