R-process nucleosynthesis.Image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The universe’s first stars were terrifying beasts. Composed only of hydrogen and helium, they may be 300 times more massive than the Sun. …
Artist’s impression of an active supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the early universe. Pop III stars in the early universe were likely the precursors of supermassive black holes. Image source: …
Miscanthus plants are bioenergy crops because they require lower nutrient concentrations for more growth. Photo credit: L. Brian Stauffer Plant roots often form microbial communities, which can affect plant health …
Realizing high-dimensional quantum transmission through nonlinear detection. In our concept, information encoded on a coherent source and overlapped with a single photon in an entangled pair in a nonlinear crystal …
An artist’s impression of a small black hole placed at the center of the sun in a thought experiment. Image source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons. In hypothetical scenarios, small primordial black holes …
Image of Jupiter taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft in February 2022. The black spot is the shadow of the moon Ganymede. These colorful patterns are formed by clouds at different …
A diagram showing the setup and functionality of the Rice Advanced Magnet with Broadband Optics (RAMBO), a unique instrument that allows researchers to use pulsed laser spectroscopy to examine the …
Schematic diagram of cooling caused by the anisotropic magnetic Thomson effect. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.206701 Japan’s National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) has successfully directly observed the …
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a multiple-image supernova named MRG-M0138 in a distant galaxy. Two supernova images (circled) are visible in the Webb NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) image above, …
Results of population structure analysis of 100 millet accessions: cluster plots at K = 2, K = 3 and K = 5. Image Source: agronomy (2023). DOI: 10.3390/Agriculture13102514 Compared with …