The Southern Ocean may be building up a massive burp
The Southern Ocean absorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions and excess heat. If anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions…
The ‘universal thermal performance curve’ that shackles evolution
Biological performance across the tree of life collapses onto the Universal Thermal Performance Curve (UTPC). Shown are approx.…
Genetic code reveals how mutations disrupt mRNA and cause disease
Genetic variation affecting splice-site choice is often near the splice-site and high resolution SpliSER-GWAS allows inferring the best…
Distant galaxy A1689-zD1 found to have unusually low dust-to-gas ratio
False-color JWST/NIRCam RGB image cutout (blue: F150W; green: F277W; red: F444W), overlaid with [C ii]-158µm emission contours showing…
Tiny droplets that bounce for minutes without bursting might be able to do so indefinitely
Schematic of the experimental setup. Credit: 2025 EMSI LFMI EPFL CC BY SA EPFL researchers have discovered that…
Quantum radio antenna uses Rydberg states for sensitive, all-optical signal detection
Experimental setup for controlling the quantum radio antenna. Credit: Michal Parniak, University of Warsaw A team from the…
Time crystals could power future quantum computers
A time crystal formed on top of a superfluid in ultracold conditions. Credit: Mikko Raskinen/Aalto University. A glittering…
Mysterious glow in Milky Way could be evidence of dark matter
Normalized density projections of the bulges. The columns show dark matter, stellar, and quadratic dark matter densities, respectively.…
Quantum mechanics trumps the second law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale
Two-oscillator quantum engine. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adw8462 Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven…
Our team of physicists inadvertently generated the shortest X-ray pulses ever observed
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell…