Microwave pulses can control ion-molecule reactions at near absolute zero

April 3, 2025

2025-04-03 04:34:00 phys.org Australia has just sweltered through its hottest 12 months on record, a period of drenching floods, tropical...

United Launch Alliance and Amazon set first launch for SpaceX Starlink competitor Project Kuiper

April 3, 2025

2025-04-02 15:56:00 phys.org Credit: CC0 Public Domain A launch date is set for the first batch of what will be...

Repurposed smartphone camera sensors create real-time, high-resolution imaging of antiproton annihilations

April 3, 2025

2025-04-02 16:03:00 phys.org The new AEgIS detector (left) and a selection of the antiproton annihilations it captured (right). Annihilations appear...

This is what forecasters mean when they talk about a 100-year flood

2025-04-02 16:10:00 phys.org Cars are submerged on a freeway flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey near downtown Houston, Texas,...

The First Sightings of Hofstadter’s Butterfly Emerged from a Happy Accident

Kim Heatley 2025-03-28 13:50:00 physics.mit.edu Almost 50 years ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter predicted that a butterfly would spread its...

The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist

Kim Heatley 2025-04-01 12:18:00 physics.mit.edu In a game often rooted in tradition, a new baseball bat is making waves, shaking...

World’s largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone

2025-04-02 06:41:00 phys.org Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Monday was momentous for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing although it still looked...

Owl journeys surprise researchers in western Montana

2025-04-01 16:48:00 phys.org Saw-whet owl fitted with transmitter, antenna showing. Credit: MPG Ranch Researchers have tracked 89 northern saw-whet owls...

Widely used fungicide poses threat to sparrow chicks

2025-04-01 17:00:00 phys.org Graphical abstract. Credit: Environmental Research (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2025.121321 A French team coordinated by a scientist at CNRS...

NASA’s SPHEREx takes first images, preps to study millions of galaxies

2025-04-01 15:09:00 phys.org NASA’s SPHEREx, which will map hundreds of millions of galaxies across the entire sky, captured one of...

Live-cell labeling sheds light on how our DNA is packed and behaves in cells

2025-04-01 12:57:00 phys.org Euchromatic regions exhibit greater nucleosome motion, whereas heterochromatic regions show more restricted motion. These nucleosome dynamics facilitate...

Scientists consider cross-breeding to save Australia’s orange-bellied parrot from extinction

2025-04-01 10:10:00 phys.org Orange-bellied Parrot (Neophema chrysogaster) male, Melaleuca, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, Australia. Credit: JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA...

Magnesium becomes a possible superconductor near the 2D limit

2025-04-01 08:20:00 phys.org Ultra-thin superconductor sheet. Credit: ChatGPT Magnesium is a common chemical element, an alkaline earth metal, which is...

No technical obstacles to new giant particle collider in Europe: CERN

March 31, 2025

2025-03-31 16:20:00 phys.org The FCC is much larger than the current large hadron collider. Europe's CERN laboratory said on Monday...

Europe’s plans for an even bigger particle collider, explained

March 31, 2025

2025-03-31 14:30:00 phys.org Credit: Ramaz Bluashvili from Pexels Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger...

Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size

March 31, 2025

2025-03-31 12:02:00 phys.org Increasing the size of the magnetic field (red horizontal arrows) applied to rod-like viruses during self-assembly produces...

Rocket carrying European orbital vehicle crashes after launch

March 30, 2025

2025-03-30 07:32:00 phys.org Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday,...

Morocco ‘water highway’ averts crisis in big cities but doubts over sustainability

March 30, 2025

2025-03-30 07:42:00 phys.org Morocco has built a diversion dam on one of its biggest rivers to redirect its flow as...

Scientists develop method to speed up quantum measurements using space-time trade-off

March 29, 2025

2025-03-29 10:00:00 phys.org A quantum circuit showing a fast measurement outcome for two qubits is the same as a slow...

$Thermopower-based technique can detect fractional quantum Hall states$

Thermopower-based technique can detect fractional quantum Hall states

2025-03-28 09:50:00 phys.org Schematics of thermopower measurements. Fig.1: Schematics of thermopower measurements in MATBG. In a thermopower measurement one end...

Strong earthquake rocks Thai capital of Bangkok, prompting evacuations from swaying buildings

2025-03-28 05:23:00 phys.org People who evacuated from buildings following earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 28, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Chutima...

Geospatial intelligence methodology makes land use management more accurate and faster

2025-03-27 14:48:00 phys.org The researchers applied the new methodology in Mato Grosso using data from the 2016/2017 strategic harvest. Credit:...

Liquid-crystal platform overcomes optical losses in photonic circuits

2025-03-27 15:02:00 phys.org A liquid-crystal-based platform acts as an optical processor in free space, allowing for the simultaneous manipulation of...

By 2100, more than 80% of amphibian species in and around the Pantanal in Paraguay projected to lose suitable habitat

March 27, 2025

2025-03-27 16:39:00 phys.org The barramundi (Scinax squalirostris) could disappear from the Pantanal by 2100. Credit: Diego Santana A study published...

NEO surveyor instrument enclosure tested inside historic chamber for Apollo spacecraft testing

March 27, 2025