Time crystals arise from quantum interactions once thought to prevent their formation
Correlations between quantum particles result in a rhythmic signal – without the need for an external beat to…
Life’s building blocks may not be stable—just really, really long-lived
Proton decay chain. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/cxvm-p412 Although the building blocks of life such as…
Mixing neutrinos of colliding neutron stars changes how merger unfolds, simulations reveal
New simulations of neutron star mergers reveal that the mixing and changing of tiny particles called neutrinos impacts…
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France. With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how…
About 1% of people don’t have sex. New research shows it may be partly genetic
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sex is important. Romantic, typically sexual, partnerships are often among the most central relationships…
Webb discovers ‘The Cliff’ object that could solve red dot mystery
NIRSpec/PRISM spectrum of The Cliff (RUBIES-UDS-154183) at zspec = 3.548. Credit: Anna de Graaff et al A new…
A scalable and accurate tool to characterize entanglement in quantum processors
How the new QST method developed by the team works. Credit: Hu et al. Quantum computers, computing systems…
Hybridization of interlayer excitons in bilayer semiconductor hints at many-body state
Right: schematic of the device illuminated with white light to study coherence properties of interlayer excitons. Left: when…
Plasmon effects in neutron star magnetospheres could pose new limits on the detection of axions
Credit: Created with ChatGPT. Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or…
Quantum scars boost electron transport and drive the development of microchips
The image depicts a quantum scar connected between conductors. It can be controlled using a so-called nanotip carrying…