The Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant object that could join Pluto in the Solar System’s exclusive family of dwarf ...

A new device uses millimeter-wave radiation to accurately read the states of superconducting qubits without altering them.

A single, real fish (left) swims in a virtual-reality bowl, where virtual fish are projected onto the walls. The sizes of the virtual fish are enlarged to make them appear closer to the real fish. A ...

In a nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE), an electric field applied in the plane of a material induces a transverse voltage that depends nonlinearly on the field. This voltage can scale with either an odd or ...

Experiments show that bundling of individual strands of an important protein polymer can occur through capillary forces, not just through molecular binding. Separated at birth. The chromosomes (blue) ...

Molecular “locks” that fit many “keys” may allow different plant mating strategies to coexist within a population of a single plant species. Figure 1: Many flowering plants like these petunias produce ...

Researchers have proposed that structural disorder can be harnessed to generate coherent, directional light from the passage of a charged particle. When a charged particle such as a relativistic ...

More than a century after scientists envisioned artificial photosynthesis and fusion power, neither has achieved widespread use—but slow progress is no reason to give up. This image, captured by the ...

Low-frequency radio observations delineate filamentary structures at the heart of a cluster of galaxies. Named after the musical symbol it resembles, the Treble Clef is an example of what astronomers ...