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How a giant planet survived its star's death, then migrated inward
JWST reveals a gas giant that survived its star's death as a white dwarf, then migrated closer in -- a glimpse of what may await our own solar system.
Read full story →Ultrafast scanning tunneling microscopy reaches the quantum mechanical space-time limit for the first time
Scientists tracked electrons tunneling on attosecond timescales, directly observing the fundamental quantum limit on measuring space and time together.
Read full story →New superconductors identified, unlocking process that could yield thousands more
AI-guided screening combined with quantum geometry uncovered two new superconductors, a scalable method that could reveal thousands more candidates.
Read full story →Giant exoplanet may hold a magnetic grip on its host star
Eighteen years of data show a Neptune-sized exoplanet's magnetic field appears to influence its host star's activity, flipping the usual relationship.
Read full story →Electron Collisions Hit a Hard Limit: Quantum Simulation Maps the Resistivity Ceiling
Ultracold atoms in an optical lattice revealed a hard quantum ceiling on resistivity from electron collisions, a new diagnostic for strange metals.
Read full story →The little red galaxies that may be sending us neutrinos
JWST's 'little red dot' galaxies with growing black holes may be hidden sources of the high-energy cosmic neutrinos detected by IceCube.
Read full story →Nearby 'Super Earth' may be a better candidate for life than previously thought
Revised mass measurements cut a nearby super-Earth's mass estimate roughly in half, boosting the odds it's rocky and habitable rather than a mini-Neptune.
Read full story →Quantum gravity tests may mistake ordinary spacetime for superposition
A new theoretical framework shows many proposed lab tests for quantum gravity superpositions could be mimicked by ordinary classical spacetime effects.
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