An ‘invisible order’ in glass shapes vibrations in the terahertz frequency range
Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-94454-8 Although glasses exhibit disordered atomic structures, X-ray and neutron scattering reveal a…
Scientists observe collective behavior of femtoscopic droplets at CERN
Relative variation, dubbed v0(p_T), in the spectrum of emitted particles resulting from a temperature variation, measured by ATLAS…
High-precision model simulates complex granular and fluid interactions
(A) Illustration of PUA-DEM partitioning fluid-solid domains for modeling a triphasic system. Distribution of air-water interfaces and capillary…
Australian researchers use a quantum computer to simulate how real molecules behave
Graphical abstract. Credit: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03336 When a molecule absorbs light, it…
Twin spacecraft mission reveals there might be a ‘hot’ side of the moon
This two-faced mosaic from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the near side (left) and the far side (right)…
Advanced gene editor enables more precise insertion of complete genes
The multiple components of the evoCAST gene editor grasping a strand of DNA (red). Credit: George Lampe (Columbia…
Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study
Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c03546 The light of someone’s life might not be…
Research hints at an underlying architecture
Meerkats in the Kalahari Research Center, Northern Cape, South Africa. Credit: Vlad Demartsev In the natural world—where predators…
Study reveals Britain’s poetic obsession with the humble lawnmower
Portrait of the seventeenth-century poet Andrew Marvell who used mowing—with a scythe—to comment on the violence of the…
Two distinct exciton states observed in 2H stacked bilayer molybdenum diselenide
Excitons in a bilayer MoSe₂ semiconductor. Schematics depicting different types of excitonic complexes (i.e., electron–hole pairs bound by…