Massive stars in metal-poor environment often have close partners, scientists discover
Massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Of the stars studied, seventy percent (the red diamonds) appear to…
Physicists model vacuum tunneling in a 2D superfluid
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1951, physicist Julian Schwinger theorized that by applying a uniform electrical field to…
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
Flexoelectricity in ice electrification events. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02995-6 A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that…
Finding ‘Earth 2.0’ may be easier using a new telescope shape
Concept design for a rectangular space telescope, modeled after the Diffractive Interfero Coronagraph Exoplanet Resolver (DICER), a notional…
For the first time, scientists observed the ‘hidden swirls’ that affect the flow of sand, rocks and snow
The glass beads used in the bulldozing experiments and mapped with X-rays. Credit: Andrés Felipe Escobar Rincón What…
Mammoth DNA from Mexico reveals a divergent lineage
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Long before the construction of the Felipe Ángeles International Airport, which lies northeast of…
MARATHON experiment offers most precise measurement of nucleon structure yet
Hall A, the area at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) where the MARATHON experiment was carried…
International collaboration doubles detection of cosmic collisions
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of researchers has announced a significant advancement in gravitational-wave astronomy, with…
Biochemists uncover new rules of mitochondrial protein import
Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.021 Mitochondria are cellular organelles that play an important role in making…
Dual laser excitation boosts light emission at nanoscale
Simultaneous excitation of YbTm-doped upconverting nanoparticles at 975 and 1213 or 1732 nm results in significantly stronger anti-Stokes…