Astronomers have detected radio waves coming from what looks like a joining of galaxies from about 8 billion years ago. The discovery is the oldest-known example of an event that is difficult to explain: a fast radio burst.
Quantum physicists at Delft University of Technology have shown that it's possible to control and manipulate spin waves on a chip using superconductors for the first time. These tiny waves in magnets may offer an alternative to electronics in the future. The …
SPERM cells have proved to defy the law of physics when they are swimming toward a reproductive egg. Scientists studied how sperm cells are able to propel through liquid and found that it is indeed…
On Wednesday, two cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station popped outside to examine the site of a coolant leak in an external radiator on a Russian...
The moon is way older than scientists previously thought, and it was a bunch of rocks that set the record straight! American astronauts Harrison Schmitt and ...
Researchers have developed a new computer simulation of the early universe that closely aligns with observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
No need to panic, but the Andromeda Galaxy is barreling towards us. It is due to begin merging with the our Milky Way Galaxy in a few billion years. From an outside observer, that process will very likely look like this new picture captured by the Gemini Sout…
For the first time, experimental physicists from the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat have demonstrated a new quantum effect aptly named the "spinaron." In a meticulously controlled environment and using an advanced set of instruments, they mana…
Having more pixels could advance everything from biomedical imaging to astronomical observations. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have built a superconducting camera containing 400,000 pixels — 400…
The prevalence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment has generated increasing concern due to the potential threats they pose to the ecosystem and human health. Landfill leachate is an important source of PPCPs in water; howe…
This landscape, covering an area similar in size to Belgium or the US state of Maryland, dates back to at least 14 million years ago, and possibly even further, preceding Antarctica's deep freeze 34 million years ago.
Researchers headed by Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, partners of the DAALI project, have gained new insights into the scattering of light by a fluorescent atom, which could also be usef…
NASA released an image taken of Jupiter in which the clouds appear to form a human face. The Juno mission image has scientists believing it has a "face" effect.
Recent breakthroughs in making stem-cell based human embryo models are raising urgent questions about to what extent they should be treated like natural embryos and whether they are open to misuse.