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…
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…
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…
Mathematical ‘sum of zeros’ trick exposes topological magnetization in quantum materials
Energy-resolved Floquet-Středa response of the Kitagawa model given by Eq. (82) as a function of the dimensionless parameter…
The physics of speed and size
Droplet Bouncing. Credit: Anton Souslov When a droplet of liquid the size of a grain of icing sugar…
In quantum sensing, what beats beating noise? Meeting noise halfway
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Noise is annoying, whether you’re trying to sleep or exploit the laws of quantum…
Even in our digital world, materials still matter
Shutterstock/JavierLizarazo These days, our lives revolve around the digital world. Money, culture, news, gossip – all of it…
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…