If we can’t detect the first stars, maybe we can see their first galaxies
Artist’s conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way showing Baade’s general population categories. The blue regions…
How night lizards survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs
Night lizards survived the K–Pg mass extinction proximal to the impact site. Credit: Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0157…
Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop…
Wafer lens changes X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times
Schematic of the ultrathin monolithic bimorph mirror. (a) A photograph of the mirror substrate comparison with a Japanese…
A new way to detect primordial black holes through their Hawking radiation
A map of the pockets of dark matter scattered across the universe. Credit: NASA/Caltech Scientists may have found…
Magnetic frustration in atacamite triggers dramatic cooling when exposed to strong fields
Artistic representation of the magnetic sawtooth structure of atacamite: The magnetic moments (green) of the Cu ions (white…
Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action
Tectonic setting around Japan. Centroid Moment Tensor solution shows the mechanism of the 2024 Hyuga-nada earthquake (b) Pre-seismic…
Charge-spin coupling in room-temperature 2D ferromagnetic material
Visualization of atomic-scale charge modulation in room-temperature 2D ferromagnet Fe5GeTe2. Credit: National Taiwan University What if electricity and…
Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed
This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly…
Scientists develop new technique for capturing ultra-intense laser pulses in a single shot
Artist’s illustration of the RAVEN technique, which measures a complex light pulse using micro foci and spectral dispersion,…