Research shines light on ‘double-yielding’ behavior in soft materials
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For decades, scientists have observed, but been unable to explain, a phenomenon seen in…
Some recommended US diets carry higher risk of forced labor in food supply chains
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many Americans choose food based on cost and nutrition, but personal values, such as…
Programmable optical chip merges photons to change color
Illustration of the working principle and capabilities of a programmable nonlinear waveguide. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09620-9 Cornell…
Quantum dynamics on your laptop? New technique moves us closer
The evolution of a single spin under coherent driving and spontaneous decay. TWA (solid lines) shows strong agreement…
Antarctic Ocean of the last ice age reveals how a critical process of CO₂ storage may slow again
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and,…
Gravity reshapes magnetic fields in star clusters
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a star formation region in molecular cloud NGC 6334, also…
General relativity could make life possible on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Parameter space showing the effect of GR on eccentricity oscillations due to an exterior planetary companion for a…
First device based on ‘optical thermodynamics’ can route light without switches
Credit: Yunxuan Wei at USC. A team of researchers at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer…
Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip
This schematic illustration shows the diffractive element in the high-power microcomb source separating comb lines spectrally. Credit: Michal…
Gravitational lenses imaged by Webb during its first run
A collage of eight Webb images of gravitational lensing, each showing various distorted galaxies in the center of…