A giant virus wags its tail
Tail attachment. Scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron micrographs of the Pelagodinium PelV1 system at the early stages…
A Third Intruder Discovered, And It’s A World First
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,…
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…
“Dark Matter May Come From A Mirror World”: Bold Theories Suggest Hidden Twin Universe And Particle Factory At The Edge Of The Young Cosmos
IN A NUTSHELL 🔍 Scientists propose two new theories that may explain the origins of dark matter. 🌌…
Testing the Nature of 3I/ATLAS by Its Non-Gravitational Acceleration | by Avi Loeb | Aug, 2025
Press enter or click to view image in full size(Image credit: Max Barry/Nation States) A simple way to…
Signs that dark energy varies over time pile up, raising questions about the fate of the cosmos!
A team of researchers—including Nobel laureate Saul Perlmutter, who first revealed the universe’s accelerated expansion—has developed a more…
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First-Ever Look at Exploding Molecules Reveals Their Quantum Secrets
In the quantum world, molecules are always on the move. And for the first time ever, scientists have…
Bipartite Gaussian boson sampling in the time-frequency-bin domain with squeezed light generated by a silicon nitride microresonator
Experimental setup The experimental setup is shown in Fig. 1a. A butterfly laser diode emitting at a wavelength…
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).…