Lightning strikes 12 times per minute on fusion engineering test platform
Century is Zap Energy’s fusion engineering test platform. Credit: Zap Energy Zap Energy has advanced its Century fusion…
Moon Missions Could Finally Reveal the Secrets of Dark Matter
Dark matter is hidden from our view making it difficult to study. Despite making up roughly 80 percent…
Research traces 50,000 years of change
Lost forever: The thylacine was among 17 large mammal species found in one Australian cave site, representing ecosystems…
Nanoscale slots enable room-temperature hybrid states of matter in perovskite
The perovskite–nanoslot hybrid system in the ultrastrong coupling regime. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63810-7 Atoms in crystalline…
Signal Hidden in a Gamma-Ray Burst Could Be a Strange Newborn’s First Heartbeat : ScienceAlert
Astronomers may have recorded the violent birth of one of the weirdest objects our Universe is capable of…
Tunable unconventional spin orbit torque magnetization dynamics in van der Waals heterostructures
We investigated TaIrTe4/Fe3GaTe2 vdW heterostructures (Fig. 1a)19 due to their promising properties, anticipating that their combination could yield contemporary…
An Einstein Cross Reveals the Universe’s Hidden Matter
Einstein Crosses are the effect of the universe’s natural telescopes. They occur when light from a distant galaxy…
Microlightning might provide long-sought explanation for will-o’-the-wisps
Microlightning between bubbles containing air and methane. Credit: Yu Xia For centuries, people have described strange blue balls…
Scientists finally prove that a quantum computer can unconditionally outperform classical computers
Comparison of classical one-way communication lower bounds for our problem and Hidden Matching, assuming implementation on a noiseless…
Cosmic clash: Stars that are wounded by black holes can live billions of years longer than normal
Black holes are often seen as cosmic monsters that swallow anything unlucky enough to stray too close. But…