Century-old turbulence theory confirmed in bubble swarm experiments
An international team of scientists has successfully shown that swarms of rising bubbles create turbulence that behaves exactly…
Rapid-response protocol promises to reveal supernovae only hours after they explode
Artistic elaboration based on images from the original paper. Credit: Galbany et al., JCAP, 2025. Supernovae appear to…
Magnetically induced convection enhances water electrolysis in microgravity
General notes All aqueous solutions were prepared with ultrapure water (18.2 MΩ cm, Veolia). Chemicals were purchased with an analytical…
Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection
An SwRI-led study of the sun confirms decades-old theoretical models about solar magnetic reconnection. Measurements from NASA’s Solar…
Spin-orbit approach boosts both speed and stability
a) False-color scanning electron micrograph of a representative NW-device. b) Schematic of PSB. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI:…
Engineers create new class of quantum sensors to detect faint molecular vibrations
Principle of quantum vibropolaritonic sensing. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ady7670 A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has…
Evidence of “negative time” observed in quantum experiments
Scientists just measured something that sounds impossible. When light passes through atoms, it can spend what appears to…
Why did Cosmic Noon galaxies emit so many cosmic rays?
The background image is the COSMOS field observed with the South African MeerKAT radio array. An artistic illustration…
X-ray flashes reveal how electron-hole pairs tug at atoms inside quantum dots
Johan Bielecki at the “Single Particles Biomolecules and Clusters/Serial Femtosecond Crystallography” (SPB/SFX) instrument of European XFEL, where the…
Physics – Skyrmions as Active Matter
August 18, 2025• Physics 18, 146 Pairs of skyrmions—tiny whirlpools that emerge in some magnetic materials—might be able…