A light-programmable, dynamic ultrasound wavefront
Fig. 1. Optically Programmable Array of Transducers (OPAT) uses light to shape ultrasonic fields. Credit: Rahul Goyal, from…
Crystalline material conducts heat even worse than glass and water—and that’s promising
Postdoc Peter Skjøtt Thorup from Aarhus University holds a small sample of the crystalline material AgGaGe3Se8, which he…
Origin of fastest white dwarfs in the galaxy linked to supernova explosions
Illustration showing the remnant of a star being ejected at tremendous speed into space from the site of…
Magnetic fields in infant universe may have been billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet
Credit: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of…
TESS reveals two rocky Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting nearby K-type star
TESS target pixel file for TOI-2322 for sector 27. The target star is labeled as 1 and marked…
Quantum entanglement lasts 600 times longer in elusive dark states, study finds
Cavity coupled QDs and detuning. a A schematic of an air-suspended hole-CBG cavity in InAs/GaAs membrane and photon…
Scientists discover limits to information erasure in viscous fluids
In viscous fluids like honey, where turbulence is absent, true mixing is challenging as it requires an interplay…
Graphene reveals electrons that behave like frictionless fluid and break textbook rules
Top Left: 3D atomistic model of the graphene device. Bottom Left: Top view of the actual device, as…
JWST reveals 3I/ATLAS’s coma is largely carbon dioxide
Hubble image of 3I/ATLAS. Credit: NASA/ESA All (or at least most) astronomical eyes are on 3I/ATLAS, our most…
Experiment demonstrates ultrafast light control of ferroelectric properties
Photoinduced structural dynamics and time evolution of strain. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63045-6 Ferroelectrics are seen as…