A pair of fledgling planets directly seen growing around a young star
Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star. While over...
Heat, not drought, will drive lower crop yields, researchers say
Climate change-induced heat stress will play a larger role than drought stress in reducing the yields of several major U.S. crops later this century,...
Researchers can now predict properties of disordered polymers
Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, scientists are able to read...
Physicists can predict the jumps of Schrodinger’s cat (and finally save it)
Yale researchers have figured out how to catch and save Schrödinger's famous cat, the symbol of quantum superposition and unpredictability, by anticipating its jumps...
Researchers solve mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter
A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified a 2018 mystery in the field of extragalactic astrophysics: The...
Solar cell defect mystery solved after decades of global effort
A team of scientists at the University of Manchester has solved a key flaw in solar panels after 40 years of research around the...
Giant stellar eruption detected for the first time
A group of researchers has identified and characterized for the first time in a complete way a powerful eruption in the atmosphere of the...
Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm
For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a single quantum system. The observation—and how they made the observation—has potential implications for...
