The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e takes its turn in the JWST’s spotlight
This artist’s illustration shows the Earth-size exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e, depicted at the lower right as it transits in…
Mars Perseverance rover data suggests presence of past microbial life
Rocks in the Bright Angel Formation. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image using its Right Mastcam-Z camera.…
Want to hear dinosaurs ‘sing’? These instruments bring prehistory back to life
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The roar of a T. rex, made iconic by Jurassic Park, has become the…
Uniting the light spectrum on a single microchip
The experimental setup shown here incorporates on-chip optical parametric oscillator (OPO) technology to generate a frequency comb of…
A mechanism for liver failure; LIGO black hole kick observed; primordial black hole explosions
Illustration of the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves they generate. Credit: Galician Institute of…
Trilayer moiré superlattices unlock tunable control of exciton configurations
Figure (a) Schematic of the DXs and QXs in the moiré bilayer and trilayer regions. (b) PL spectra…
Gravitational wave analysis confirms theory of merging black holes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes,…
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the…
Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
An illustrative comparison of a standard refractive lens next to an ultra-flat optic developed by the research team.…
Laser reveals sound from supersonic molecules in near-space cold conditions
Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c02265 What happens when you hurl molecules faster than…