Earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile from Egypt reveals the African origins of seagoing crocs
Life reconstruction of Wadisuchus kassabi from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt, showing an adult capturing a lungfish in…
Using entanglement to test whether gravity is quantum just got more complicated
Feynman diagrams for QED or linear quantum gravity. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09595-7 Unifying gravity and quantum theory…
4MOST telescope facility captures first light
Sky region of the first observations with 4MOST with an example spectrum. In the Sculptor Galaxy (top right),…
Exploring how dark matter alters electron-capture supernovae and the birth of neutron stars
Artist impressions of a super-asymptotic giant branch star (left) and its core (right) made up of oxygen (O),…
How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
Eclipse table of the Dresden Codex. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adt9039 The Maya Civilization, from Central America,…
The world needs a better way to share genetic information
Biology is in the middle of a transformation. Over the past five years new sequencing techniques have made…
Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers shaped European landscapes long before agriculture, study reveals
LIG (A) and Early Holocene (B) study area. Legend: 1–Elevations (in meters above sea level, m a.s.l.); 2–No…
Microscopic ‘ocean’ on a chip reveals new nonlinear wave behavior
Electron microscope image of the superfluid wave tank used in the experiments (blue) coupled to an optical fibre…
With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom’s nucleus
This image depicts the radium atom’s pear-shaped nucleus of protons and neutrons in the center, surrounded by a…
Simulations hint at new strongly correlated states of matter in ultracold polar molecules
A self-bound crystal of individual dipolar molecules surrounded by a superfluid ring. I have made the figure myself,…