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MIT Team Maps the 3D Atomic Structure of Relaxor Ferroelectrics for the First Time, Resolving a Decades-Old Mystery in Ultrasound and Sonar Materials
Using multi-slice electron ptychography on a PMN-PT alloy, MIT-led researchers directly imaged a hierarchy of polar and chemical structures, finding that polarization regions are much smaller than leading simulations predicted.
Norway's Largest Viking Age Coin Hoard Surfaces at Mørstad Farm, With More Than 3,000 Silver Pieces and Counting
Two metal detectorists found 19 silver coins in a field near Rena on April 10, 2026. Within days, archaeologists had recovered more than 3,000, surpassing a record that had stood since 1836.
Tokyo Researchers Diffract a Positronium Beam Through Graphene, Confirming the Antimatter Atom Behaves as a Single Quantum Wave
A Tokyo University of Science team has observed first-order matter-wave diffraction of positronium passing through a few-layer graphene grating, the first direct evidence that the short-lived electron-positron atom behaves as one coherent quantum object and a step toward gravity tests on antimatter.
Astronomers Image the First Close Binary Supermassive Black Hole Pair, Caught Spiraling Toward a Merger in Markarian 501
A 23-year radio campaign on the blazar Mrk 501 reveals a second jet from a hidden supermassive companion orbiting every 121 days, the first directly imaged close SMBH binary.
Two Simultaneous Papers Report Field Re-Entrant Superconductivity in Europium-Doped Nickelates, Defying the Pauli Limit
Independent teams publishing in Nature and Nature Communications show that doping infinite-layer nickelates with europium revives superconductivity at magnetic fields that should destroy it.
GSI Experiment Finds First Evidence of an Eta-Prime Mesic Nucleus, Probing the Origin of Mass
An international collaboration at GSI/FAIR in Germany reports the first experimental evidence that an eta-prime meson can be bound inside a carbon-11 nucleus, with data hinting that the meson loses mass in nuclear matter.
First Scientifically Accurate Skeleton of Deinosuchus schwimmeri Goes on Display in Georgia After 40-Year Hunt
The 31-foot Late Cretaceous dinosaur-eating crocodilian has been reconstructed in full for the first time using 3D scans of fossils collected over four decades, with the only mounted cast unveiled at the Tellus Science Museum.
Two Papers in Nature Materials Break the Strength-Ductility Ceiling for Martensitic Steel
Researchers from TU Delft, HKU, and SUSTech published separate Nature Materials studies showing that interface engineering and controlled lattice distortion can simultaneously boost strength past 3 GPa and preserve meaningful ductility in martensitic alloys.
Astronomers Discover a Planetary System Whose Orbits Are Visibly Changing in Real Time, a Phenomenon Never Before Observed
The TOI-201 system hosts a super-Earth, a warm Jupiter, and a record-setting brown dwarf whose gravitational interplay drives orbital shifts observable on human timescales — within 200 years its planets will stop transiting.
Aalto University Algorithm Solves 268-Million-Site Quasicrystal Simulation That Would Defeat Any Classical Supercomputer
A quantum-inspired tensor network method achieves exponential speedup on topological quasicrystals, opening a feedback loop between quantum materials and quantum computer design.
Novoselov Team Turns Arsenic Trisulfide Into a Photosensitive Clay, Sculpting 50,000-DPI Optics With a Single Continuous-Wave Laser
A PNAS paper from XPANCEO and Nobel laureate Konstantin Novoselov shows the van der Waals crystal As2S3 undergoes a refractive-index shift of 0.3 and expands up to 7% under ordinary light, enough to write 50,000-dpi patterns without lithography.
JWST Finds Unexpected Water-Ice Clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab, the Closest Directly Imaged Super-Jupiter
A new JWST MIRI observation of the 12-light-year-away exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab shows less ammonia than models predict, pointing to thick water-ice cirrus clouds that current atmospheric models omit.