James Webb Space Telescope New Discovery Reveals Tidal Disruption Events by Dormant Black Holes
Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through dust in nearby galaxies and observe several tidal disruption events (TDEs) ...
[2025-12-06]
German Stellarator Wendelstein 7-X Sets New Record with 43-Second Fusion Plasma Duration
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics have achieved a major breakthrough in controlled nuclear fusion. The German Wendelstein 7-X experimental reactor has set a new world record, s...
[2025-12-06]
MIT Develops Autonomous Platform to Accelerate Polymer Blend Material R&D
A research team at MIT has developed a fully autonomous experimental platform for efficiently screening high-performance polymer blends. The results, published in the journal Matter, demonstrate the a...
[2025-12-06]
"Tunneling" Electrons Speed Test Challenges Another Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Quantum mechanics describes the unconventional properties of subatomic particles, such as their ability to exist in superpositions of multiple states (as popularized by Schrödinger's cat analogy) an...
[2025-12-06]
Stanford Medicine Pioneers Antibody Therapy, Opening New Path for Stem Cell Transplants
A Stanford Medicine research team has developed an innovative stem cell transplant conditioning regimen that replaces traditional chemotherapy and radiation with antibody therapy, offering a safer tre...
[2025-12-05]
TESS Satellite Discovers New Ultra-Short-Period Exoplanet TOI-2431 b
An international team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet, TOI-2431 b, orbiting a nearby star using observational data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This newly identifi...
[2025-12-05]
Marathon Fusion Announces Method to Mass-Produce Gold Using Fusion Reactors
Marathon Fusion has announced a novel application of fusion technology that could enable commercial-scale fusion power plants to produce approximately 5,000kg of gold per gigawatt-year of electricity ...
[2025-12-05]
Novel Antiferromagnetic Material Achieves Highly Efficient Thermoelectric Conversion, Opening New Pathways for Energy Harvesting
A team of physicists at RIKEN in Japan has published a significant study in Nature Communications, discovering that a new type of compensated antiferromagnetic material exhibits outstanding thermoelec...
[2025-12-05]
Increasing Randomness May Be Key to Building Stronger Quantum Computers
Randomness plays a pivotal role in numerous fields—from computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather forecasting. Understanding and harnessing randomness is essential for simulating ...
[2025-12-05]