Gravitational wave analysis confirms theory of merging black holes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes,…
Cheese cave fungi reveal how genetic mutations drive rapid evolutionary change
The mold on the rind of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese: the original green and the evolved white several…
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…
Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications
A new design method for creating pseudomagnetic fields in silicon photonic crystals enables precise control over the flow…
What 3I/ATLAS tells us about other solar systems
This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera on 21…
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…
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the…
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…
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…
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…