Quantum calculations provide a sharper image of subatomic stress
A proton (pink) and an electron (blue) experience stresses in the hydrogen atom. Investigating stress in subatomic particles…
Scientist returns to microbial roots and discovers potential quantum computing advancement
Nikhil Malvankar. Credit: Jon Atherton During his Ph.D. at UMass, Nikhil Malvankar was laser-focused on quantum mechanics and…
Physicists achieve record precision in measuring proton-to-electron mass ratio with H₂⁺
Detailed view of the experimental setup. The hydrogen molecule ions are cooled by means of laser light to…
Unprecedented gamma-ray burst hints at rare black hole
The orange dot at the center of this image is a powerful explosion that repeated several times over…
Physicists demonstrate controlled expansion of quantum wavepacket in a levitated nanoparticle
Picture showing a nanoparticle with a fuzzy contour—somehow an artistic impression of delocalization. The noisy trajectories on the…
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…
How evolution explains autism rates in humans
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A paper in Molecular Biology and Evolution finds that the relatively high rate of…
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…
Non-magnetic material shows ‘Anomalous Hall Effect’ for the first time
Japanese physicists have observed an elusive form of the “Hall effect” in a nonmagnetic material for the first…
Mars has a solid core, resolving a longstanding planetary mystery, according to new study
Credit: NASA Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth’s. Results from NASA’s InSight…