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Illustration of the point by point duality D-V relation in the transverse plane. The blue circles represent full transmission T=1 cut-out parts of the object, and the blue ellipses represent the object's partial transmission T<1. Credit: Physical Review Research (2025). DOI: 10.1103/dyg6-l19j

Physicists Discover the Hidden Balance Inside Quantum Reality

Event display in the signal region from data taken in 2018. The pixel tracklet candidate with pT = 1.2 TeV is shown by the red solid line and other inner detector tracks by the thin orange lines. Jets are shown by the transparent yellow, blue, and red cones. The missing transverse momentum is shown by the white dotted line. The green and yellow bars indicate energy deposits in the liquid argon and scintillating tile calorimeters respectively. The event is common to both the electroweak and strong production signal regions. Event and run numbers are shown in the bottom left corner. Credit: ATLAS Collaboration CERN

The Particle That Could Break String Theory—and Solve the Darkest Mystery in the Universe

Event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying to two muons (H→μμ), shown as red tracks in the detector. Credit: ATLAS/CERN

Scientists Catch Elusive Higgs Decays Hinting at Deeper Secrets

Octopus. Credit: iStock

This Octopus Has Nine Brains—and It’s Smarter Than You Think

Do Elephants Really Mourn Their Dead? The Science Says Yes

Humpback whale. Credit: iStock

The Whale That Swims Alone—and Sings at the Wrong Frequency

Pando. Credit: Wikipedia

This Tree Can Clone Itself for Thousands of Years

Venus flytrap. Credit: iStock

The Beautiful Plant That’s Also a Deadly Assassin

Graphic rendition of a proteasome, which breaks down misfolded and damaged proteins inside a cell. Credit: Fried Lab, Johns Hopkins University

New Discovery Could Change the Way We Understand Alzheimer’s and Brain Aging

General neutrino interactions in beta decay. Credit: Caroline Fengler

The Elusive Neutrino May Hold Secrets That Change Our Understanding of the Universe

Credit: The Aquarius simulation, the Virgo Consortium/Dr Mark Lovell

The Mystery of Missing Galaxies Around the Milky Way Could Soon Be Solved

Illustration of a polaron in a crystal: the central bright sphere is the charge carrier, distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines represent high-order Feynman diagrams for the electron–phonon interaction, summed with quantitative accuracy with the new Caltech method. Credit: Ella Maru Studio

Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Polaron Physics and Revolutionize Materials Science

Top view of the Milky Way galaxy showing the estimated orbits of both our sun and the 3I/ATLAS comet. 3I/ATLAS is shown in red dashed lines, and the sun is shown in yellow dotted lines. The large extent of 3I’s orbit into the outer thick disk is clear, while the sun stays nearer the core of the galaxy. Credit: M. Hopkins/Ōtautahi-Oxford team. Base map: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar, CC-BY-SA 4.0

Ancient Interstellar Comet May Be Older Than Our Solar System

True bug (about 12 millimetres in length) on the leaves of petunia.

10 Most Fascinating Insects You’ve Never Heard Of

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10 Endangered Animals That Could Vanish Forever

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Physicists Crack the Code of Invisible Magnets for Tomorrow’s Super-Speed Devices

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Dog: Humanity’s Oldest and Most Faithful Friend

The Mgwayiza Valley in Eswatini. Credit: Gregor Bader

Ancient African Travelers Sought Brilliant Stones Across Vast Distances

The original mandible of Skhūl I and the CT scan-based images in anterior and left lateral view. Blue = bone; green = reconstruction, scale bar = 1 cm. Mount Carmel in the background. Credit: Dan David Center of Human Evolution, Tel Aviv University, image of Mount Carmel from Britannica. Adapted from Bouvier et al. 2025

The Ancient Child Who Blurs the Lines Between Humans and Neanderthals

University of Houston provost and archaeologist Diane Chase in newly discovered tomb of the first ruler of the ancient Maya city Caracol and the founder of its royal dynasty. Credit: Caracol Archeological Project/University of Houston

Ancient King Unearthed in Maya City After 1,700 Years of Silence

Silhouette of a standing man on the stone, mountains and starry sky with Milky Way at night in Nepal. Sky with stars. Travel. Night landscape with snow-covered mountain ridge and milky way. Space

Ancient DNA Reveals How Humans Conquered the Himalayas

This artist's illustration shows an exoplanet with ample surface water. If exoplanet scientists could directly detect surface water on distant planets it would be a game-changer and would take some of the guess work out of the effort to find habitable worlds. Credit: NASA

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory May Soon Reveal Oceans on Alien Planets — And With Them, The Possibility of Life

NGC 4527: color scale shows 700 MHz (Band-4) emission from the naturally weighted image. White contours represent the 1,230 MHz (Band-5) emission from the naturally weighted image, with contour levels of 0.45, 4.3 and 8.2 mJy/beam. Red markers indicate the positions of known supernovae in NGC 4527. The synthesized beams are shown in the bottom right corner. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.02204

Astronomers Detect Hidden Black Hole Awakening in a Nearby Galaxy

Color image of a flat top, heavily eroded FSR. Sand dunes can be seen migrating over the top of the FSR. Credit: HiRISE Image: ESP_085386_1505 NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Mars Hides Ancient Rivers Beneath Its Rusty Sands

Structural schematic diagram of silicon-22 and its mirror nucleus oxygen-22. Through mass measurements of silicon-22 combined with theoretical calculations, researchers have revealed that silicon-22 possesses a double-magic structure similar to that of oxygen-22, while also exhibiting slight symmetry breaking with a more extended proton spatial distribution. Credit: IMP

Silicon’s Secret Reveals a New Magic Number Inside the Atom

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Quantum Battery Breakthrough Promises Faster Charging and Real Energy Gains

Dead elephant deposits. Credit: Ben Marcus. Harvard University

Ancient Proteins Whisper Secrets from 18 Million-Year-Old Teeth in Kenya

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10 Best AI Tools for Video Animation and VFX

(a) Time evolution of the density of the atomic cloud along the x direction according to the non-interacting numerical simulations described in the text. The contour plot is the result of stacking 350 one dimensional density profiles. (b) Same as panel (a) but in momentum space. (c) and (d) report the same time evolutions of panel (a) and (b) respectively, but for numerical simulations accounting for the interatomic interactions. In all panels the color scale has been substantially saturated to better highlight the finer details. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2025). DOI: 10.1103/nrjv-pwy1

Scientists Unlock Cosmic Secrets Using Ultracold Atoms

This is an illustration of an oviraptorid dinosaur called Citipati. The scene depicts Citipati being startled while resting on a sand dune. The creature raises its arms in a threat display, which reveals its wrists, highlighting the small migrated pisiform carpal (blue X-ray view) bone. Credit: Henry S. Sharpe

The Dinosaur Wrist Bone That May Have Laid the Groundwork for Flight