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…
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…
Using pulsar accelerations to detect a dark matter sub-halo in the Milky Way for the first time
Posterior distribution showing derived properties of a dark matter sub-halo. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.16932 Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti,…
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…