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Los Alamos THOR Framework Uses Tensor Networks to Solve a Century-Old Physics Problem 400 Times Faster Than Supercomputer Simulations
Los Alamos and University of New Mexico researchers built THOR, an open-source tensor network framework that computes configurational integrals for crystalline solids 400 times faster than molecular dynamics simulations.
MIT's Terahertz Microscope Reveals Hidden Quantum Motion of Electrons Inside a Superconductor for the First Time
MIT physicists built the first terahertz near-field microscope and used it to directly image quantum oscillations of superconducting electrons in BSCCO, a result published in Nature.
Webb Reveals the Inner Workings of the 'Exposed Cranium' Nebula, a Dying Star's Brain-Shaped Shroud
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the most detailed images yet of nebula PMR 1, nicknamed the Exposed Cranium, revealing a two-light-year-wide structure shaped by jets from a massive dying star roughly 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela.
Gaia Data Reveals the Sun Fled the Milky Way's Core with Thousands of Stellar Twins Billions of Years Ago
A 30-fold expansion of the solar-twin catalog shows the Sun migrated 10,000 light-years outward from the galactic center between four and six billion years ago, carried by the forming central bar.
University of Houston Physicists Set New Ambient-Pressure Superconductivity Record at 151 Kelvin Using Pressure Quenching
Researchers use pressure quenching to lock in a record superconducting transition temperature of 151 K at ambient pressure, surpassing a 33-year-old record.
CERN Physicists Observe Quark Wakes in Primordial Plasma for the First Time Confirming the Early Universe Flowed Like a Liquid
The CMS Collaboration at CERN has detected wakes left by quarks speeding through quark-gluon plasma, providing the first direct evidence that the matter filling the universe in its first microseconds behaved as a nearly perfect liquid rather than a gas of free particles.
ALMA Creates Its Largest Image Ever, Mapping 650 Light-Years of Hidden Chemistry at the Milky Way's Core
The ACES survey stitched together ALMA's biggest mosaic to date, revealing dozens of molecules and intricate gas filaments across the galaxy's Central Molecular Zone.
Two Back-to-Back Nature Papers Reveal the Oldest Known Bony Fish and the Silurian's Apex Predator, Pushing Vertebrate Origins Back 10 Million Years
Paleontologists report paired discoveries from China that rewrite the early chapter of bony fish evolution and, by extension, the evolutionary lineage leading to all living vertebrates including humans.
Webb Spots Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen, Pushing Ram-Pressure Stripping Back 8.5 Billion Years
James Webb Space Telescope identifies galaxy COSMOS2020-635829 at redshift z=1.156, the most distant jellyfish galaxy known, revealing cluster environments were stripping galaxies far earlier than models predicted.
HETDEX Astronomers Unveil the Largest 3D Map of Hydrogen Light in the Early Universe, Revealing a Hidden Sea of Cosmic Structure
A team using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope processed 600 million spectra to build the first large-scale intensity map of Lyman-alpha emissions from 9 to 11 billion years ago, exposing faint galaxies and intergalactic gas invisible to conventional surveys.
Iron Catalyst Powered by LED Light Converts Methane Into a Pharmaceutical Drug for the First Time
A Spanish research team synthesized the hormone therapy drug dimestrol directly from methane using an iron-based photocatalyst, opening a path to converting natural gas into high-value medicines.
Laser Pulse Flips a Ferromagnet Without Heating in Breakthrough That Unites Three Pillars of Condensed Matter Physics
ETH Zurich and University of Basel researchers permanently reversed a ferromagnet's polarity using only laser light in twisted bilayer molybdenum ditelluride, published in Nature.