Sweden’s most powerful laser delivers record-short light pulses
The laser system is 11 meters long and generates extremely short laser pulses. Credit: Mattias Pettersson, Umea University…
Dark star clusters or extreme dwarf galaxies? Astrophysicists revisit Ursa Major III’s true nature
Compilation of Local Group dGs (A. W. McConnachie 2012; version 2021 January), GCs (W. E. Harris 1996; version…
‘Mysterious Giant’ Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary : ScienceAlert
A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the…
Far Out | Sean M. Carroll, Willa Glickman
As scientists and researchers make sense of some of the major discoveries from the turn of the twenty-first…
Near-infrared photon-triggered CH4-to-CH3OH conversion over plasmonic oxyselenides
Structural and photo-physical characterizations The crystal structure of triclinic CuSeO3 with space group P1 is illustrated in Fig. 1a.…
100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
IRA FLATOW: This is Science Friday. I’m Ira Flatow. 100 years ago this summer, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote…
Scientists just recreated the universe’s first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmos
This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. For the first time, researchers have…
Using lasers to bring crystal vibrations to their quantum ground state
Schematic of the cavity optomechanical system. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02989-4 Using new techniques, Yale researchers have…
Scientists use micro-structured materials to control light propagation
Credit: Rao et al. Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/3g3j-mnh9 Topological spin textures, spatially organized patterns linked to…
The particle that may finally unlock universal quantum computing
Quantum computers promise speed, but they still struggle with reliability. Qubits are sensitive, and small disturbances can scramble…