Plasma rampdown prediction model could improve reliability of fusion power plants
A shot-by-shot breakdown of every shot in the experiment. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-63917-x Tokamaks are machines…
Physicists develop new quantum sensor at the atomic lattice scale
Working principle of the quantum electrometer. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-61839-2 From computer chips to quantum dots—technological…
Physicists detect water’s ultraviolet fingerprint in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
NASA’s Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during two visits in July and August 2025. The…
Internet favors the development of flexible identities among language learners
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A review reveals that the interplay between technology, identity, and languages involves and encourages…
Vultures as curators and a newly discovered interspecies warning call
Bearded Vultures typically carry food and nest-building material to the nest site. (A) An adult Bearded Vulture with…
New instrument at SOAR achieves first light with observations of remarkable binary star system
The SOAR Telescope at Cerro Pachon. Credit: CTIO/SOAR/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Paredes The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile,…
Constraining Proxima b’s atmosphere, orbit and albedo with RISTRETTO
Artist’s impression of Proxima b. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish…
Gaia telescope discovers our galaxy’s great wave
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space telescope has revealed that our Milky Way galaxy has a giant…
A better metric for estimating an exoplanet’s habitability
An example of remote sensing data compared to conditions on a real world. Left: The observed surface habitability…
Surveying Io’s Surface with the UNAGI lander
Io imaged by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft in December 2023. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Emma Wälimäki © CC…