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Demonstrating Supersolidity in a Driven Quantum System

In everyday life, all matter exists in one of three states: gas, liquid, or solid. However, in quantum physics, two different states can exist at the same time.

1 Sep 2025

Discovering the Electronic Nature of Chirality

For the first time, scientists at ETH Zurich have utilized extremely brief, rotating bursts of light to analyze and modify electron movements in mirror-image molecules.

1 Sep 2025

Scientists Discover a Way to Turn Off Superconductivity

The University of Jyväskylä in Finland has been part of an international cooperation that has discovered a mechanism to entirely suppress superconductivity in superconducting and ferromagnetic junctions.

27 Aug 2025

Observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Provide Insights into Early Galaxies

The first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light have been observed for the first time, thanks to images captured with the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) MIRI infrared sensor.

27 Aug 2025

New Algorithms Aid the Search for Cosmic Radiation's Source

Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum are hoping to use neutrinos to pinpoint the sources of cosmic radiation.

25 Aug 2025

Identifying a Rare Binary System of Stars and Brown Dwarfs

In a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), a team of astronomers identified a hierarchical system where a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbits a pair of young red dwarf stars.

25 Aug 2025

Astronomers Capture a Record 130-Year Evolution of a Dying Star

For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century - revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed.

21 Aug 2025

New Star Explosions Offer a Fresh Way to Explore the Distant Universe

According to new findings published in Nature Astronomy, a new type of star explosion offers a new approach to exploring the distant Universe.

20 Aug 2025

New Insights into Quantum Measurement and Oscillation

In a study published July 7th, 2025, in the journal Physical Review Research, University of Vermont researchers discovered a precise solution to a model that acts as a “damped quantum harmonic oscillator,” a guitar-string sort of motion at the atomic scale.

18 Aug 2025

UVA Astrophysicist Develops New Theory on Black Hole Formation

Jonathan Tan, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, has developed a new theoretical study that offers a thorough framework for the formation of supermassive black holes.

13 Aug 2025