Quantum equivalent of thermodynamics’ second law discovered for entanglement manipulation
Illustration of an entanglement battery. The battery allows reversible interconversion between any two entangled states. Credit: American Physical…
New fossils from Earth’s most famous extinction show climate tipping point was crossed
Pre-extinction tropical rainforest seed fern, Gigantopteris, (giant leaves). Credit: Dr Zhen Xu. The collapse of tropical forests during…
Nonlinear currents emerge in symmetry-broken materials
Artistic representation of the breakdown of Ohm’s law and the resulting nonlinear effects in a non-centrosymmetric crystal. Credit:…
Superconducting networks show how tiny changes trigger system collapse
Mixed-order transitions in interdependent superconducting networks. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61127-z Why do some changes in nature…
Astrophysicist explains how black hole mergers and quasars help detect gravitational wave networks
An illustration of the proposed network of gravitational waves. Credit: NANOGrav When black holes need a place to…
Shape-shifting particles allow temperature control over fluid flow and stiffness
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Imagine a liquid that flows freely one moment, then stiffens into a near-solid the…
Quantum computer simulates spontaneous symmetry breaking at zero temperature
Digitization and adiabatic energy gap. a The procedure to digitize an adiabatic evolution is done through a Riemann-like…
Quantum protocol achieves Heisenberg-limited measurement precision with robust spin states
Quantum wavepacket dynamics depicting the collective motion of an ensemble of identical spins subject to periodic modulation in…
Photon ‘time bins’ and signal stability show promise for practical quantum communication via fiber optics
Developed at Leibniz IPHT in Jena and INRS in Canada: The photonic chip uses time-bin encoding to transmit…
High-velocity molecular clouds in M83 provide new insight into how galaxies evolve
An illustration of high-velocity clouds composed of molecular gas inflowing from outside the galaxy. Credit: Created with ChatGPT/DALL·E…