3D-printed metamaterials harness complex geometry to dampen mechanical vibrations
This 3-D printed kagome tube can passively isolate vibrations using its complex, but deliberate, structure. Credit: James McInerney,…
Can we hear gravitational-wave ‘beats’ in the rhythm of pulsars?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Pulsars suggest that ultra–low-frequency gravitational waves are rippling through the cosmos. The signal seen…
Female mountain gorillas stop reproducing long before the end of their lives, study finds
An old (~44 years old), post-reproductive, female mountain gorilla in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Credit: MPI-EVA/ Martha…
Geologists discover the first evidence of 4.5-billion-year-old ‘proto Earth’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of “proto Earth,” which…
Compact laser-plasma accelerator can generate muons on demand for imaging
Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA) detected and characterized directional muons. Credit: https://pxhere.com/es/photo/788784?utm_content=shareClip&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pxhere Muon beams can now be created…
Anomalous metal sheds light on ‘impossible’ state between superconductivity and insulation
(a) Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a reference device, taken before depositing the global top gate. The square…
Software solution can correct image blurring by James Webb Space Telescope
Before and after the image sharpening process. Credit: Max Charles/University of Sydney A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students…
Tidal forces heat white dwarfs to unexpected temperatures in tight binary orbits
Impression of the 6.9 minute double white dwarf binary J1539+5027, composed of a tidally heated white dwarf (yellow)…
Direct evidence of universal anyon tunneling in a chiral Luttinger liquid revealed in edge-mode experiment
Image showing the actual device measured in the experiment. The GaAs chip is mounted on a PCB board…
Earth’s continents stabilized due to furnace-like heat, study reveals
UHT differentiation of continental crust. The schematics show the processes involved in the refining of immature continental crust…