Scientists use lightning to make ammonia out of thin air
The electrolyser used as part of the new method to make ‘green ammonia’.Credit. PJ Cullen University of Sydney…
Unveiling hedgehog topological defects in three dimensional glasses
A humorous pictorial representation of hedgehog topological defects defined via the topological charge Q, in a 3D glass.…
Dark Matter Particle Explorer obtains high-precision cosmic-ray boron spectrum
The charge spectrum from DAMPE’s PSD for particle identification of cosmic rays. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI:…
Improving randomness may be the key to more powerful quantum computers
The circuit construction used to prove the paper’s main result. Each block represents a quantum circuit acting on…
Understanding the impact of radiation on silicon carbide devices for space applications
Dr Corinna Martinella. Credit: Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) The first results of the ETH Zurich…
Quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary SXP31.0
Unfolded energy spectra of SXP31.0. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.19601 Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland…
What a bumble bee chooses to eat may not match its ideal diet
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts…
A new method for restoring magnetism in thin films
Scheme of magnetic recovery via catalytic action (top) and measurement results of magnetic force (bottom). RH on the…
Reanalysis of Kepler data uncovers two planets in KOI-134 system with unusual orbital dynamics
This artist’s concept shows the KOI-134 system, which a 2025 paper revealed to have two planets: KOI-134 b…
Physicists create tunable system for enhanced quantum sensing
A table top experiment typical of the setup. The size is more or less equal to the size…