Experimental device demonstrates how electron beams reconfigure plasma structure
Changes in MHD equilibrium before and after flux rope merging. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09345-9 In a scientific…
Dancing dwarf galaxies predict the Milky Way’s future
A high-resolution color image showing the central galaxies NGC5713 and NGC5719 taken by the Hyper Suprime-Cam at the…
A giant virus wags its tail
Tail attachment. Scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron micrographs of the Pelagodinium PelV1 system at the early stages…
New work achieves a pure quantum state without the need for cooling
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Three nano-glass spheres cling to one another. They form a tower-like cluster, similar to…
Physicists capture elusive instability and exotic vortices
The swirling patterns in Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” can help us visualize quantum Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI).…
Move over Mercury—Chiron is in retrograde: What even is Chiron?
You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in…
The universe’s first stars unveiled in turbulent simulations
This image is from a ground-breaking simulation of the universe’s primordial gas clouds. The universe’s very first stars…
ALMA observations reveal dual fragmentation modes in high-mass star-forming cloud
Left: Morphological structure of the HFS in target region I18308, showing core spacing distribution. The HFS molecular cloud…
The US just got a new X-ray laser toolkit to study nature’s mysteries
Georgi Dakovski, SLAC lead scientist and qRIXS instrument lead, stands beside the qRIXS instrument. SLAC researchers have introduced…
How a rare cycad’s wax crystals conjure blue without pigment
E. horridus (center) in a greenhouse under natural sunlight, with its leaves appearing more bluish than those of…