Science & Research

A Harvard-led team detects escaping helium around super-Earth LHS 1140 b, the first confirmed atmosphere found on a rocky world in a habitable zone.

Webb found Beta Pictoris d by reading its atmosphere's chemical fingerprint, a first for exoplanet discovery, while a separate imaging study independently confirmed it.

A Tulane University study finds gold surface atoms spontaneously reorganize into a denser pattern that blocks oxygen reactions by a billion to a trillion times.

Researchers documented the elusive goblin shark alive in its natural deep-sea habitat for the first time, extending its known range and depth by nearly 700 meters.

ESO's Very Large Telescope captured the clearest-ever image of Betelgeuse B, showing the long-sought companion is 2.6 to 3.1 times the sun's mass.

University of Fribourg physicists used ultrafast laser pulses to briefly turn semiconducting tin telluride into a topological conductor, confirmed by time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and published in Nature Physics.

STFC's 2.7% PPAN budget cut fully withdraws e-MERLIN funding, threatening Jodrell Bank's Lovell Telescope with closure.

Physicists built a photonic quantum heat engine that uses indefinite causal order to generate work and refrigeration simultaneously, reversing the everyday direction of heat flow.

UT Austin researchers built a 3D-printable material from billions of jammed water droplets that filters ions like human tissue, with uses from soft robotics to lithium recovery.

A dwarf-galaxy transient first spotted in 2019 developed radio emission so bright, years later, that a Chinese-led team says it may define a new class of relativistic explosion.

The EPS honored Jairo Sinova, Libor Šmejkal, and Tomas Jungwirth for identifying altermagnetism, a third fundamental class of magnetism.

Penn State researchers found a viscous particle suspension can hold a memory of stirring direction and a memory of rocking amplitude at once, and the two compete.