Physicists pinpoint boundary where nuclear shell model breaks down
The ISOLDE facility at CERN. Credit: CERN An experiment carried out at CERN’s ISOLDE facility has determined the…
Explaining a quantum oddity with five atoms
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov…
Quantum researchers observe real-time switching of magnet in heart of single atom
Artist impression, based on actual measurement data, of the nuclear spin of an atom flipping between distinct quantum…
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…
Genetic mechanism reveals how plants coordinate flowering with light and temperature conditions
Flowering Arabidopsis thaliana. Credit: Salk Institute Plants may be stuck in one place, but the world around them…
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…
Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
Flexoelectricity in ice electrification events. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02995-6 A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that…
Finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional…