A snapshot of relativistic motion: Special relativity made visible
Credit: Vienna University of Technology When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions…
Hours-long continuous lasing achieved using laser-cooled strontium atoms
The team’s experimental setup: Atoms are cooled and slowed inside a vacuum chamber, until they can be trapped…
Alternative black hole models suggest quantum effects may erase need for singularities
Singular black hole and non-singular alternatives. Credit: Sissa Medialab. Background image sourced from ESO/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit (eso.org/public/images/eso1101a/)…
Researchers delete proteins in wheat harmful to people with celiac disease
Maria Rottersman of UC Davis holds a loaf of baked bread made using seed varieties developed without alpha-gliadin…
An ocean without life will absorb less carbon emissions and accelerate climate change
Historical and future projections of global climate and carbon cycle states. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57371-y Have…
Novel materials could eventually power electric vehicles and more
Electronic band structure and the superconducting pocket. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08381-1 Imagine a world in which free-floating…
Saola genome mapped for first time
The rare and endangered saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) has not been seen in the wild since 2013. Credit: Toon…
Physicists snap the first images of ‘free-range’ atoms
Top: Two renderings show how itinerant atoms in an atom trap (red) are suddenly frozen in place via…
EU mulls nature credits to help biodiversity
Environmental groups worry the idea could be brought low by the many scandals that have hit carbon credit…
New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought ‘theory of everything’ a crucial step closer
The gravity quantum field is calculated in flat spacetime. The curved classical metric is calculated using the expectation…