Science & Research

Researchers at Aalto University demonstrated they can connect a continuous time crystal to a mechanical oscillator without destroying it, turning the exotic quantum state into an optomechanics-like platform that ran for up to 108 cycles.

Powell and Buchalter show in Physical Review B that periodically switched magnetic fluxes through a Harper-Hofstadter lattice can produce topological phases that no equilibrium material can host.

A UC Davis-led team using JWST has measured the kinematics of XMM-VID1-2075 at redshift 3.45 and found no detectable rotation, a property previously seen only in mature nearby galaxies.

Physicists at the University of Wurzburg used a gallium arsenide quantum film cooled to -269.15 C to measure KPZ scaling exponents in 2D, four years after the 1D version was confirmed.

A 500-kilometer plutino in the Kuiper Belt shows refractive signs of a 100-200 nanobar atmosphere, a discovery published May 4 in Nature Astronomy that astronomers say challenges models of which small icy worlds can hold gas.

A University of Oxford group has experimentally demonstrated quadsqueezing, a fourth-order quantum interaction long thought too weak to observe, by harnessing non-commutativity between two laser-driven forces on a single trapped ion.

A Mura et al. preprint using Juno's JIRAM data argues prior single-band thermal estimates of Io's paterae missed the colder crust that dominates output, lifting one lava lake's estimate from 7 GW to 80 GW.

A University of Warwick team applied a new machine-learning pipeline called RAVEN to four years of TESS observations, statistically validating 118 short-period planets and surfacing roughly 1,000 candidates not previously catalogued.

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.

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.

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.

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.