9 D Universe

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. [...]

Researchers in the Netherlands, Austria, and France have created what they describe as the first operating system for networking quantum computers. Called QNodeOS, the system was developed by a team led by Stephanie Wehner at Delft University of Technology. The system has been tested using several different types of quantum [...]

The nervous system is often considered the body’s wiring, sending electrical signals to communicate needs and hazards between different parts of the body. However, researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have now also measured bioelectronic signals propagating from cultured epithelial cells, as they respond to a critical injury. “Cells [...]

The MIT School of Science welcomes Jess Speedie, one of eight recipients of the 2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. The announcement was made March 27 by the Heising-Simons Foundation.The 51 Pegasi b Fellowship, named after the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a sun-like star, was established in 2017 to provide postdocs [...]

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, has revealed ejections from still-forming protostars and insights into the impact of strong magnetic fields on interstellar gas and the life cycle of [...]

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Here, a massive and dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust has collapsed on itself over [...]

A new technique could reduce the risk of blood clots associated with medical implants, making them safer for patients. The technique, which was developed by researchers at the University of Sydney, Australia, involves coating the implants with highly hydrophilic molecules known as zwitterions, thereby inhibiting the build-up of clot-triggering proteins. Proteins [...]

An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, indicating that galaxies stop forming stars earlier than predicted by models. [...]

The CERN particle-physics lab near Geneva has released plans for the 15bn SwFr (£13bn) Future Circular Collider (FCC) – a huge 91 km circumference machine. The three-volume feasibility study, released on 31 March, calls for the giant accelerator to collide electrons with positrons to study the Higgs boson in unprecedented [...]

I was unprepared for the Roger Penrose that I met in The Impossible Man. As a PhD student training in relativity and quantum gravity at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, I once got to sit next to Penrose. Unsure of what to say to the man [...]

Author(s): Katherine WrightTransforming an MRI brain scan into a hyperbolic network of nodes allows researchers to detect brain connectivity disruption caused by Alzheimer’s disease.[Physics 18, 70] Published Wed Apr 02, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Ryan WilkinsonA new theory unveils the exotic low-energy excitations of quasicrystals formed of quantum particles.[Physics 18, s39] Published Wed Apr 02, 2025 [...]

Agrivoltaics is an interdisciplinary research area that lies at the intersection of photovoltaics (PVs) and agriculture. Traditional PV systems used in agricultural settings are made from silicon materials and are opaque. The opaque nature of these solar cells can block sunlight reaching plants and hinder their growth. As such, there’s [...]

Aaron Leanhardt PhD ’03, David Pritchardhttps://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/yankees-torpedo-bat-pictures-mit-physicist/ The post The science behind Yankees’ torpedo bats explained by its inventor – an MIT physicist appeared first on MIT Physics. [...]

The first results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) are a cosmological bombshell, suggesting that the strength of dark energy has not remained constant throughout history. Instead, it appears to be weakening at the moment, and in the past it seems to have existed in an extreme form known [...]

Author(s): Charles DayObservations by the JWST observatory of a star-free super-Jupiter reveal large-scale inhomogeneities in its atmosphere.[Physics 18, 69] Published Tue Apr 01, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Philip BallThe messy breakup of a liquid droplet that occurs when it hits a surface can be suppressed by giving the droplet an electrical charge.[Physics 18, 74] Published Tue Apr 01, 2025 [...]

Author(s): Rachel BerkowitzThe fidelity of a complex system’s representation as a network model depends on the diversity of its interconnections.[Physics 18, s43] Published Tue Apr 01, 2025 [...]

Vol. 6967. Stellar structure and evolution The infrared counterpart and proper motion of magnetar SGR0501+4516 by A. A. Chrimes, A. J. Levan, J. D. Lyman, A. Borghese, V. S. Dhillon, P. Esposito, M. Fraser, A. S. Fruchter, D. Gotz, R. A. Hounsell, G. L. Israel, C. Kouveliotou, S. [...]

Author(s): Daniele MarinazzoA new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms.[Physics 18, 71] Published Mon Mar 31, 2025 [...]

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has shown that they can use stars and the remains they leave behind to conduct a special kind of archaeology in space. [...]

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm Kevin Nuckolls, Pappalardo Fellowhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-first-sightings-of-hofstadters-butterfly-emerged-from-a-happy-accident/ The post Physicists Catch a Quantum Butterfly Spreading Its Wings appeared first on MIT Physics. [...]

Author(s): David EhrensteinMeasurements of millions of galaxies suggest that dark energy changes over time and is more complicated than previously thought.[Physics 18, 72] Published Fri Mar 28, 2025 [...]