A pointless fashion trend or something else? Chimpanzees wear blades of grass in their ears and rears
Val, an adult male chimpanzee performing the ‘grass-in-ear’ behavior. Credit: Jake Brooker/Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust A team of…
Scientists find new way to control electricity at tiniest scale
Electrode alignment with the red paths of the silicon molecule induce destructive quantum interference in the molecular wire.…
Transmon qubit coherence reaches millisecond threshold
Artistic image of a high-coherence transmon qubit on a quantum processor. Credit: Alexandr Käkinen On July 8, 2025,…
Physicists observe image rotation in plasma
Illustration of the rotation of the wave’s transverse structure (image rotation) observed in experiments as the plasma rotation…
Light and glass are set to transform computing
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain European researchers are developing quantum computers using light and glass, in a collaboration that…
Is Earth inside a huge void? ‘Sound of the Big Bang’ hints at possible solution to Hubble tension
If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would…
Scientists uncover mechanism that causes formation of planets
An artist’s concept of a supermassive black hole surrounded by an accretion disk. Credit: NASA Instead of a…
Six agricultural employment pathways identified for youth development
A young agro-dealer engages with a smallholder farmer in Uganda. Credit: Emmanuel Edupet, Media Factory Uganda for CABI…
‘Space ice’ is less like water than previously thought
Visual representation of the structure of low-density amorphous ice. Many tiny crystallites (white) are concealed in the amorphous…
Dark dwarfs lurking at the center of our galaxy might hint at the nature of dark matter
Artistic representation of a dark dwarf. Credit: Sissa Medialab Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding…