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University of Houston Physicists Break 32-Year Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record With Pressure-Quenched Ceramic at 151 Kelvin
A team at the Texas Center for Superconductivity used a pressure-quenching technique on a mercury-based copper-oxide ceramic to achieve a transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a record that had stood since 1993.
Over 700 Fossils from China's Jiangchuan Biota Push the Origin of Complex Animals Back into the Ediacaran
A fossil assemblage preserved as carbonaceous films in Yunnan Province reveals more than 700 specimens of complex animals, including the oldest known deuterostomes, dating to 554-539 million years ago and closing a major gap between the Ediacaran period and the Cambrian explosion.
Rice University Develops MagnetoARPES Technique That Reveals Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in a Kagome Superconductor
Rice University physicists built magnetoARPES, a new instrument that revealed the first direct momentum-space evidence of time-reversal symmetry breaking in the kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5, confirming theoretically predicted loop current orders.
Sungrazer Comet C/2026 A1 MAPS Faces Death or Glory as It Plunges Through the Solar Corona on April 4
The farthest Kreutz sungrazer ever discovered will pass just 161,000 kilometers above the Sun's surface on Saturday, threading the inner solar corona in a make-or-break encounter that could produce a comet visible in broad daylight or end in total disintegration.
Gulf Stream's Abrupt Northward Shift Could Provide 25-Year Warning Before Atlantic Circulation Collapse, Utrecht Study Finds
High-resolution simulations show the Gulf Stream jumps 219 km north roughly 25 years before AMOC collapse, and satellite data confirms the current has already begun drifting northward from Cape Hatteras.
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration Releases GWTC-4, More Than Doubling the Catalog of Known Gravitational Wave Events to 218
The fourth gravitational wave transient catalog adds 128 new detections from a nine-month observing run, including the heaviest and fastest-spinning black hole mergers ever recorded.
ETH Zurich Engineers a Single-Atom Indium Catalyst That Converts CO2 Into Methanol With Unprecedented Efficiency
Isolated indium atoms on hafnium oxide outperform conventional nanoparticle catalysts in CO2-to-methanol synthesis, opening a path to fossil-free chemical production.
Nearly Complete Patagonian Fossil Rewrites Alvarezsaur Evolution, Showing Miniaturization Preceded Specialization
A 90-million-year-old skeleton from Argentina reveals that alvarezsaur dinosaurs shrank to under two pounds before evolving their hallmark ant-eating adaptations, upending decades of evolutionary assumptions.
Hubble Accidentally Captures a Comet Breaking Apart in Real Time, a First for the 35-Year-Old Telescope
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught comet C/2025 K1 fragmenting into at least four pieces across three days, marking the closest-to-breakup observation in the telescope's history.
Fujian Normal University Team Encodes Data in Three Dimensions of Light, Boosting Holographic Storage Capacity With AI-Powered Decoding
Researchers combine amplitude, phase, and polarization in a single holographic data page, using a neural network to decode all three channels from intensity-only measurements.
Lean Theorem Prover Catches First Non-Trivial Error in a Physics Paper, Exposing a Flaw in a Widely Cited Higgs Model Result
A University of Bath researcher used the Lean 4 theorem prover to formalize a 2006 particle physics paper and discovered its central stability theorem is false, marking the first time formal verification has uncovered a substantive error in published physics research.
Airborne Electromagnetic Survey Reveals a Freshwater Reservoir Up to Four Kilometers Deep Beneath the Great Salt Lake
University of Utah geophysicists have discovered a vast freshwater system saturating sediments beneath the shrinking Great Salt Lake, potentially spanning its entire 1,500-square-mile footprint.