Space-time doesn’t exist, but it’s a useful framework for understanding our reality
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Whether space-time exists should be neither controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions…
Beauty meson decay confirms tension with Standard Model predictions
The LHCb experiment in its underground cavern. Credit: CERN A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension…
Physicists nearly double speed of superconducting qubit readout in quantum computers
A dilution refrigerator used to cool a superconducting quantum computer. The quantum circuit is inside the cylindrical metal…
Observations investigate a compact stellar system around nearby galaxy
Amateur image of NGC 7531 (left). DESI Legacy Imaging Survey image of NGC 7531 (right). Sky-subtracted image of…
New tensor network-based approach could advance simulation of quantum many-body systems
A schematic diagram sketching the relations between the categorical structures that describe various aspects of the low-energy properties…
Solving the mystery of whether a Bolivian salt flat is the world’s largest natural mirror
Credit: Nature The largest salt flat in the world is Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, a popular tourist…
Rare-earth tritellurides reveal a hidden ferroaxial order of electronic origin
Artistic image of the ferrorotational density wave. Credits: Brad Baxley. The discovery of “hidden orders,” organization patterns in…
Collision between two bodies of similar mass may explain the formation of Mercury
a–d, The time intervals between snapshots are indicated in the top left corners and are not equispaced. The…
Observations explore a rare type Iax supernova
SN 2022xlp hosted by NGC 3938. This picture was taken with the BRC80 telescope in the Baja Astronomical…
Researchers detect first ‘heartbeat’ of a newborn neutron star in distant cosmic explosion
Occurrence and harmonics of the QPO signal from GRB 230307A. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-025-02649-w A discovery…