Cicadas sing in perfect sync with pre-dawn light
Power spectra of dawn choruses at location I. Colored thin lines are raw power spectral densities of the…
Threshold effects enable self-stopping robot swarms
A bunch of microrobots scurrying around at the Institute of Theoretical Physics II of the Heinrich Heine University…
Decline of seed-dispersing animals hinders fight against climate change
The seed of the fruit passes through the digestive tract of the dispersing animal, where it undergoes treatment…
A monster at the dawn of time
Artist representation of CAPERS-LRD-z9, home to the earliest confirmed black hole. The supermassive black hole at its center…
Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day
Captured at a location called Falbreen, on May 26, 2025, 96 images were stitched together to create this…
New model explains plutonium’s peculiar behavior
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Normally, materials expand when heated. Higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate, bounce around and…
Researchers discover universal rules of quantum entanglement across all dimensions
Quantum entanglement in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions. Credit: Yuya Kusuki A team of theoretical researchers used thermal effective…
Study finds mysterious DNA split in great white sharks defies current explanations
Differences between the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of white sharks, once thought to be caused by their migration…
Scientists produce quantum entanglement-like results without entangled particles in new experiment
Four-photon FI. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr1794 In the everyday world that humans experience, objects behave in…
Ultrafast imaging method characterizes thousands of molecules using single-photon camera
Single molecule FLIM setup and acquisition scheme. Credit: Light: Science & Applications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-01901-2 EPFL researchers have…