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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lab experiments provide new details about the charge-transfer process that occurs in ash clouds and other collections of particles. Electric volcano. Triboelectric charging caused by collisions of ash ...

Topological superconductors hold promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing, but isolating signatures of the desired topological states has proven an elusive goal. A new study of an iron-based ...

A device that stores a single positron and controls its quantum states could measure its magnetic moment with unprecedented precision, testing a symmetry principle central to quantum field theory.