Gaia solves mystery of tumbling asteroids and finds new way to probe their interiors
An illustration of two colliding asteroids. Credit: Europlanet/T Roger. Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis…
Physicists tighten the net on elusive dark matter
“The UCSB Physics Department has a long history of devising searches for dark matter, starting with one of the…
Towards terahertz nanomechanics | Nature Communications
Pawar, A. Y., Sonawane, D. D., Erande, K. B. & Derle, D. V. Terahertz technology and its applications.…
Light-vibration coupling opens new path for future electronics
Scientists have found a way to make atoms dance with light, quite literally. In certain crystals, vibrations called…
Supercomputer simulations pierce mysteries of galactic nuclei
Supermassive black holes constantly pump dust, gas and heat into their environments, creating accretion disks like this one.…
Fungi may have set the stage for life on land hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought
Clear fossil evidence can be found most of the five major groups—here we see a Dickinsonia fossil, providing…
Spontaneous emission behaves contrary to predictions in photonic time crystals
Spontaneous emission decay rate (left) and spontaneous emission excitation rate (right) when a quantum emitter (or atom) is…
Infrared data from the James Webb Telescope reveals more structural details of M87’s black hole jet
RGB image of M87 obtained using F356W, F150W, and F090W observations. Credit: Astronomy & Astrophysics (2025). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556577…
Most powerful ‘odd radio circle’ to date discovered
A still image from the animation of RAD J131346.9+500320. Credit: RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (India) The most distant and…
Polarons shape the interlayer exciton emission of MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers
Sio, W. H. & Giustino, F. Polarons in two-dimensional atomic crystals. Nat. Phys. 19, 629–636 (2023). Article CAS …