Gyromorphs combine liquid and crystal traits to enhance light-based computers
Illustration of a 60-fold gyromorph’s properties. Top row: Structure of the gyromorph. Left: Structure factor. Right: Pair correlation…
Peering inside 3D chaotic microcavities with X-ray vision
3D X-ray microtomography reveals the internal geometry of a deformed microsphere, allowing insight into chaotic light dynamics. Credit:…
Invasive rats, not just humans, may be to blame
Rapa Nui palm seed endocarp chewed by a rat. Credit: Sebastian Englert Museum in Hunt and Lipo 2025…
Quantum nonlocality may be inherent in the very nature of identical particles
Nonlocality seems to be enchanted into such a fundamental property of our universe as the indistinguishability of quantum…
A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole…
Two independent quantum networks successfully fused into one
Scheme of quantum network fusion, network architecture and operation principle. Credit: Nature Photonics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41566-025-01792-0 Many quantum…
Paradox of rotating turbulence finally tamed with ‘hurricane-in-a-lab’
By rehabilitating Taylor-Couette flows with Kolmogorov’s small-scale universality, researchers have created a powerful baseline for the study of…
Plasma lens can focus attosecond pulses across different ranges of XUV light
a, An attosecond pulse enters a capillary, where a strong electrical pulse generates a hydrogen plasma. As the…
Astronomers may have found the first stars that formed after the Big Bang
Credit: Neale LaSalle from Pexels For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of…
Light can reshape atom-thin semiconductors for next-generation optical devices
A team of Rice University researchers and collaborators showed that a two-layer Janus TMD material—molybdenum sulfur selenide stacked…