October 7, 2025
CMU Researchers Team Up With Climate TRACE To Model Emissions
Climate TRACE, a nonprofit co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, released an air pollution monitoring tool…
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What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology
The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now extinct animals.
The horn — found preserved in Siberian permafrost — stretched over 1.6 meters, nearly the size of a small adult human…
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A strange quantum metal just rewrote the rules of electricity
Quantum metals are a unique group of materials where quantum behaviors, typically confined to the atomic scale, become strong enough to shape how electricity behaves across the entire material.
A team of researchers in Japan has now uncovered how…
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Scientists accidentally create a tiny “rainbow chip” that could supercharge the internet
A few years ago, scientists in Michal Lipson’s lab made an unexpected discovery while working on ways to enhance LiDAR — a technology that measures distance using light waves. Their project involved creating high-power chips capable of…
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When sunshine became cheaper than coal
Solar power has become so affordable that in the world’s sunniest regions, producing one unit of electricity now costs as little as £0.02 — cheaper than power from coal, gas, or even wind, according to new research from the University of…
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Interface Forces Leak Through Graphene Coatings
Author(s): Tianhan Liu
Experiments clarify the degree to which a graphene coating can reduce the strength of van der Waals interactions with a surface.
[Physics 18, s127] Published Tue Oct 07, 2025
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Nobel Prize: Quantum Tunneling on a Large Scale
Author(s): Michael Schirber
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling in electrical circuits.
[Physics 18, 170] Published Tue Oct 07, 2025
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Was Jesus a Shaman?
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Manvir Singh isn’t your typical academic anthropologist. He writes regularly…
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Printable aluminum alloy sets strength records, may enable lighter aircraft parts | MIT News
MIT engineers have developed a printable aluminum alloy that can withstand high temperatures and is five times stronger than traditionally manufactured aluminum.
The new printable metal is made from a mix of aluminum and…
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New prediction model could improve the reliability of fusion power plants | MIT News
Tokamaks are machines that are meant to hold and harness the power of the sun. These fusion machines use powerful magnets to contain a plasma hotter than the sun’s core and push the plasma’s atoms to fuse and release…
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