How night lizards survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs
Night lizards survived the K–Pg mass extinction proximal to the impact site. Credit: Biology Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2025.0157…
Webb might detect if supermassive black holes form directly
This artist’s impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble One…
Powerful magnets could unlock detection of high-frequency gravitational waves
Magnetic Weber bar concept: Gravitational waves deform the magnet, creating oscillating magnetic fields detected by the pickup loop…
Twisted trilayer graphene shows high kinetic inductance and quantum coherence
The critical current oscillations are sinusoidal when twisted trilayer graphene is a normal metal (an S-N-S junction). But…
Will asteroid 2024 YR4 hit the moon?
The NEOMIR orbiting observatory will act as an early warning system to detect and monitor any asteroid coming…
If we can’t detect the first stars, maybe we can see their first galaxies
Artist’s conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way showing Baade’s general population categories. The blue regions…
Wafer lens changes X-ray beam size by more than 3,400 times
Schematic of the ultrathin monolithic bimorph mirror. (a) A photograph of the mirror substrate comparison with a Japanese…
A new way to detect primordial black holes through their Hawking radiation
A map of the pockets of dark matter scattered across the universe. Credit: NASA/Caltech Scientists may have found…
Magnetic frustration in atacamite triggers dramatic cooling when exposed to strong fields
Artistic representation of the magnetic sawtooth structure of atacamite: The magnetic moments (green) of the Cu ions (white…
Discovery of ‘mini halo’ points to how the early universe was formed
This stunning image reveals a distant galaxy cluster teeming with energy: galaxies shine in visible light (white), ghostly…