Gravitational wave analysis confirms theory of merging black holes
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Ten years after scientists first detected gravitational waves emerging from two colliding black holes,…
Mysterious ‘red dots’ in early universe may be ‘black hole star’ atmospheres
Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the…
Ultra-flat optic pushes beyond what was previously thought possible
An illustrative comparison of a standard refractive lens next to an ultra-flat optic developed by the research team.…
Laser reveals sound from supersonic molecules in near-space cold conditions
Credit: The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2025). DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5c02265 What happens when you hurl molecules faster than…
Cheese cave fungi reveal how genetic mutations drive rapid evolutionary change
The mold on the rind of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese: the original green and the evolved white several…
Microscopes can now watch materials go quantum with liquid helium
Robert Hovden, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, describes how an upgraded cryo-electron microscope works at…
Models explain mysterious feature controlling magnetic properties of the sun
The sun taken from the Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite, showing the quiet corona and magnetic structures like coronal…
Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications
A new design method for creating pseudomagnetic fields in silicon photonic crystals enables precise control over the flow…
New quantum sensors can withstand extreme pressure
A schematic image shows a 2D sensor squeezed between two diamond anvils. Credit: Chong Zu The world of…
Seeing a trio of entangled photons in one go
Achieving the entanglement measurement of the W state. Credit: KyotoU / Takeuchi lab The concept of quantum entanglement…