Seeing the waves that make the sun’s corona so hot
Image of Alfvén waves, which heat the sun’s corona. Credit: SDO/Morton, et al If you happen to be…
Is our universe the ultimate computer?
Credit: Dr Melvin Vopson, University of Portsmouth Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is…
New quantum optics theory proposes that classical interference arises from bright and dark states of light
Double slit interference. Photons arrive everywhere on the screen, but in the bright/dark regions in a bright/dark quantum…
New framework suggests stars dissolve into neutrons to forge heavy elements
A high-energy photonic jet (white and blue) blasts through a collapsar with a black hole at its center.…
The first experimental observation of Dirac exceptional points
Dirac exceptional point. The figure illustrates that the Dirac exceptional point exhibits both a real-valued energy spectrum in…
High velocity gas-clump in Milky Way neighborhood may be a dark galaxy
Overview of the high-velocity cloud AC-I. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4057 A team of astronomers and astrophysicists…
Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows
This artist’s concept illustrates the results of a new study that measured the masses of many planets relative…
Quantum sensors tested for next-generation particle physics experiments
The SMSPDs can precisely detect single particles at a time. The detectors were designed and fabricated at JPL…
Dimming starlight may signal passage of dark compact objects
Heuristic plot showing various microlensing surveys’ sensitivity to DM clumps assuming that 𝑅𝜒,eff ≈𝑅𝜒. Surveys are sensitive to…
High-pressure electron tunneling spectroscopy reveals nature of superconductivity in hydrogen-rich compounds
Synthesis of planar tunnel junctions. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08895-2 Scientists have achieved a major milestone in the…