Melting ice slows Earth’s rotation and shifts its axis, research shows
Climate change is altering the Earth to its literal core, new research shows. As polar and glacial ice melts due to global warming, water that was once concentrated at the…
Astronomers discover what may be 21 neutron stars orbiting solar stars
This illustration depicts a binary star system consisting of a dense neutron star and a normal solar star (top left). Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, astronomers…
The telescope team discovered 10 strange and exotic pulsars
Terzan 5, located in the constellation Sagittarius, is a crowded globular cluster, home to hundreds of thousands of stars. Ten unusual and exotic pulsars were recently discovered by an international…
Comet Tsuchinshan shows signs of disintegration before it orbits the sun
The dust tail of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS. Top panel: A cropped version of the computer-processed image of the comet taken by R. Naves with the 30-cm f/9 reflector at the Observatorio…
Quantum microscopy makes electrons visible in slow motion
The time-resolved scanning tunneling microscope imaging tip captures the collective motion of electrons in materials via ultrafast terahertz pulses. Credit: Shaoxiang Sheng, University of Stuttgart (FMQ) Physicists from the University…
Earth system scientists find a missing piece in climate models
Photo-like satellite image of southern Greenland on the afternoon of September 4, 2022. The bare, dirty ice at the edge of the ice sheet appears gray. The snow-covered ice is…
The study of superlubricity shows that a macroscale frictionless condition can be achieved
credit: Applied materials today (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.apmt.2024.102140 SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) President Winston "Wole" Soboyejo, Ph.D., and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Tabiri Kwayie Asumadu published a paper titled "Stable Macroscale…
Surprising ring sheds light on galaxy formation
The distant galaxy PJ0116-24, a superluminous infrared galaxy (HyLIRG). Cold gas is seen here in blue; warm gas is shown in red. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/ESO/D. Liu et al. The question…
Researchers demonstrate how to build ‘time-traveling’ quantum sensors.
The Fisher information achievable with a single-qubit sensor. credit: Physical examination letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.260801 The idea of time travel has dazzled science fiction enthusiasts for years. Science tells us…
New incompletely split microcontinent between Greenland and Canada
Schematic representation of the evolution of the Labrador Sea, Baffin Bay and Davis Strait through the Paleogene. Abbreviations: Pre-Ungava Transform Margin (Pre-UTM), Davis Strait Protomicrocontinent (DSPM), Ungava Fracture Zone (UFZ).…