Ten years later, LIGO is a black-hole hunting machine
This plot shows gravitational-wave signals recorded by the LIGO Hanford detector almost 10 years apart. The top shows…
Supermassive black holes shrouded by dust in the early universe
An artist’s impression of a dust-shrouded quasar in the early universe. Credit: NAOJ Astronomers have discovered “dust-shrouded supermassive…
Mars Perseverance rover data suggests presence of past microbial life
Rocks in the Bright Angel Formation. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera.…
Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
An illustrative comparison of a standard refractive lens next to an ultra-flat optic developed by the research team.…
Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
Robert Hovden, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, describes how an upgraded cryo-electron microscope works at…
Ancient DNA reveals deeply complex Mastodon family and repeated migrations driven by climate change
Windsor Sinkhole Mastodon tusk, dated to approximately 178,000 years ago, was found in a gypsum sinkhole in Nova…
Laser reveals sound from supersonic molecules in near-space cold conditions
Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c02265 What happens when you hurl molecules faster than…
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…