Icy planetesimal with high nitrogen and water content discovered in white dwarf’s atmosphere
Artist’s impression of white dwarf WD 1647+375 accreting icy planetary fragments from a pluto-like world, creating the chemical…
Information could be a fundamental part of the universe, and may explain dark energy and dark matter
Credit: CC0 Public Domain For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein’s…
JWST searches for stars in a glowing gas cloud
Stars, gas and cosmic dust in the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud glow in near-infrared light, captured by Webb’s…
New adaptive optics system promises sharper gravitational-wave observations
Credit: University of California – Riverside Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks…
Softness arises from hierarchical structures
Summary of the present study Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of amorphous silicon, examples of the local…
Super-absorbent hydrogel for soilless farming enables plants to thrive in drought conditions
Abstract. Credit: ACS Agricultural Science & Technology (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acsagscitech.4c00723 It is a fully biodegradable and eco-friendly system…
The fourth state of matter drives sustainable carbon upcycling
Researchers in Elijah Thimsen’s lab in the McKelvey School of Engineering has shown that carbon monoxide is a…
First direct observation of dark excitons in atomically thin materials
The TR-ARPES setup used in the research. Credit: Jeff Prine (OIST) In a world-first, researchers from the Femtosecond…
Termite observations reveal their sophisticated technique to prevent contamination in fungal crop
Representative pictures of sham encasement assay. (a) infected comb before encasement on day 0 (b) infected comb encased…
Chip-scale cold atom experiments could unleash the power of quantum science in the field
Laser cooling beam delivery PIC installed in the 3D MOT setup. The cooling and repump lasers are combined…