Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin
Artistic image of the ferrorotational density wave. Credits: Brad Baxley. The discovery of “hidden orders,” organization patterns in…
Researchers detect first ‘heartbeat’ of a newborn neutron star in distant cosmic explosion
Occurrence and harmonics of the QPO signal from GRB 230307A. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02649-w A discovery…
Observations explore a rare type Iax supernova
SN 2022xlp hosted by NGC 3938. This picture was taken with the BRC80 telescope in the Baja Astronomical…
Life’s building blocks may not be stable—just really, really long-lived
Proton decay chain. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/cxvm-p412 Although the building blocks of life such as…
Scientists find proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago
Crater surface morphology and seismic attributes of horizons CF1 and CF2 at the crater floor. Credit: Nature Communications…
New, improved 3,000-qubit neutral atom array system reloads atoms continuously for more than two hours
Atom array architecture for continuous reloading. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09596-6 The neutral atom array architecture for quantum…
Proposed framework describes physics from perspective of quantum reference frames
Credit: Université libre de Bruxelles In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de…
Time crystals arise from quantum interactions once thought to prevent their formation
Correlations between quantum particles result in a rhythmic signal – without the need for an external beat to…
A new candidate for dark matter
Parametrization of the path of the gravitino adopted in this work. Credit: Physical Review Research (2025). DOI: 10.1103/fm6h-7r78…
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France. With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how…