Scientists solve 500-million-year fossil mystery
Specimens of Shishania. A and B, specimen in different lighting conditions, showing how the uneven breakage of the…
Flavor symmetry of the high-energy world does not work as expected
Interior of the Projectile Spectator Detector (PSD) used in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN. Credit: Julien Marius Ordan,…
There’s a chorus of gravitational waves coming from the core of the Milky Way. Will we hear them?
A composite image of the region around Sagittarius A\* at the center of our galaxy. Credit: X-ray: NASA/UMass/Q.D.…
Physicists propose a new route by which neutrinos can be produced
An artist’s rendering of some of the detectors buried in ice that make up the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.…
The first genetic editing in spiders with CRISPR‐Cas yields colorful silk
Credit: Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2025). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202502068 The University of Bayreuth’s Biomaterials research group has, for the…
Tiny thermal sensor shows how molecules can mute heat like music
Twin-tip NbN SThM probe for single-molecule thermal measurement. a, SEM image (side view) of a twin-tip SThM probe…
A way to make super-smooth materials
LEEM and µ-LEED experiments. Credit: Small (2024). DOI: 10.1002/smll.202408349 Scientists from the Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics…
Physicists discover an unusual chiral quantum state in a topological material
Credit: Shafayat Hossain and Zahid Hasan Lab Chirality—the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror…
Can quantum computers handle energy’s hardest problems?
Caleb Rotello sketches out the thinking that led him and fellow researchers to devise algorithms that benchmark quantum…
Physicists use machine learning to find out how layered gases and metals melt
Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2502980122 In physics, a phase transition is a…