New measurement of the mass of the Z boson from the Large Hadron Collider
The LHCb detector in 2018. Credit: CERN The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at…
We tracked 13,000 giants of the ocean over 30 years, to uncover their hidden highways
Ana Sequeira swimming with a whale shark in Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, to collect samples. Credit: Australian Institute…
Antarctic atmospheric rivers, supercharged by climate change, expected to double by 2100
Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, . Credit: Michelle Maclennan, BAS Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such…
Probing hyperon potential to resolve a longstanding puzzle in neutron stars
Left: Hyperon elliptic flow versus transverse momentum in hypernucleus-nucleus collisions. Right: Rapidity distributions of light hypertriton production in carbon-carbon…
Curious humpback whales approach humans and blow bubble ‘smoke’ rings
Two distinct bubble structures, including (a) bubble net and (b) bubble ring. Note that they are very different…
IXPE obtains first X-ray polarization measurement of magnetar outburst
This illustration depicts IXPE’s measurements of X-ray polarization emitting from magnetar 1E 1841-045 located within the Supernova Remnant…
Largest map of the universe announced revealing 800,000 galaxies, challenging early cosmos theories
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and…
Physicists recreate extreme quantum vacuum effects
Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a…
Physicists figure out how an electric field can switch off superconductivity
Surface of thin film. Credit: Alessio Zaccone with ChatGPT Transistors are fundamental to microchips and modern electronics. Invented…
Quantum state lifetimes extended by laser-triggered electron tunneling in cuprate ladders
Laser pulses trigger electronic changes in a cuprate ladder, creating long-lived quantum states that persist for about a…