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…
New theory may solve quantum ‘jigsaw puzzle’ for controlling chemical reactions
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the past, chemists have used temperature, pressure, light, and other chemical ways to…
Organic molecule achieves both strong light emission and absorption for displays and imaging
This image depicts the structure of the proposed organic molecule, alongside the energy level diagrams of two-photon absorption…
New research reveals surprising ancestry
‘Tanzania’ variety of sweetpotato. Credit: Benard Yada at National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI), Uganda The sweet potato…