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Keck backed team advances first graviton detector conceptLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Modern physics faces a deep inconsistency between quantum theory, which explains nature using discrete particles and interactions, and general relativity, which describes gravity as a smooth curvatu ... more  
China Sky Eye tracks binary-triggered fast radio burst activityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 An international team of astronomers has obtained the first decisive evidence that at least some fast radio bursts originate in binary stellar systems rather than from isolated objects. The work cen ... more 
Iron bar of hot plasma revealed inside Ring NebulaLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Astronomers using a powerful new multi-object spectrograph on the William Herschel Telescope have uncovered a previously unknown bar-shaped cloud of ionised iron inside the famous Ring Nebula. The s ... more  
Laser timing tech sharpens black hole radio viewsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Radio telescopes capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of distant celestial objects, but resolving black holes sharply requires many instruments to observe in perfect s ... more |
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JWST red dots reveal rapidly growing early black holesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 Since the James Webb Space Telescope began science operations in December 2021 some 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, astronomers have been puzzled by compact, intensely red sources scattered throu ... more  
Frozen hydrogen cyanide crystals may have helped spark early chemistry for lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 Hydrogen cyanide is highly poisonous to humans, yet new work suggests it could have played a constructive role in the emergence of life on early Earth and in other cold environments in the solar sys ... more 
Early universe dark matter born red hot before coolingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and Universite Paris-Saclay report that dark matter in the early universe may have started out moving at nearly the speed of light, challenging ... more 
Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaperWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2026 After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A ... more |
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Berkeley Scientists set to home in on 100 signals from Seti at HomeBerkeley, United States (SPX) Jan 12, 2026 For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy. The project - calle ... more |
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Quantum light switch built from atomically thin mirrorBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Controlling light across scales, from microscopes and telescopes down to nanometers, is a central challenge in modern optics. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam have now demonstrated a nanos ... more 
Quantum key method enables redundant storage of qubit dataLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have demonstrated a method to back up quantum information by encrypting qubits during copying, providing redundancy while remaining consistent wit ... more 
Bright supernova offers new view of black hole birthTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 What astronomers know about the birth of a black hole has long mirrored the objects themselves, tending to be dark, difficult to observe, and seemingly quiet despite their immense gravitational infl ... more 
Scientist wins 'Environment Nobel' for shedding light on hidden fungal networksWashington, United States (AFP) Jan 14, 2026 Beneath the surface of forests, grasslands and farms across the world, vast fungal webs form underground trading systems to exchange nutrients with plant roots, acting as critical climate regulators as they draw down 13 billion tons of carbon annually. ... more |
This crystal sings back: Illinois collaboration sheds light on magnetochiral instabilityUrbana IL (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first observation of a dynamic magnetochiral instability in a solid-state materi ... more  |
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Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologiesHouston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2026 Scientists have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects two significant areas of physics, potentially leading to advancements in computing, sensing and materials science. A stud ... more 
Mixed crystal phase of superionic water mapped inside giant planetsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius and pressures of millions of atmospheres drive water into a superionic state in which hydrogen ions move freely through a solid lattice of oxygen ato ... more 
Pandora exoplanet mission checks in after launchLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 NASA mission controllers have acquired full signal from the agency's Pandora small satellite, confirming the health and initial operations of the exoplanet observatory following launch from Vandenbe ... more 
Barred spiral galaxy spotted 11.5 billion years in the pastLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, has identified a contender for one of ... more |
Surrey Japan team to probe short lived atomic nuclei in cosmic element questBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Plans to obtain the first precision measurements of some of the rarest and most unstable atomic nuclei are set to advance understanding of nuclear structure and the way chemical elements form during ... more 
Quantum interferometer boosts sensitivity to tiny laser beam shiftsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen have demonstrated a quantum interferometric method that can register extremely small tilts and displacements of a laser beam. The approach is ba ... more 
Jets from black hole drive record coronal gas stream in nearby galaxyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine have identified the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby disk galaxy called VV 340a, with their findin ... more 
Dark star theory links JWST early universe anomaliesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 A recent study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie, with collaborators Jillian Paulin at the University of Pennsylvania, Andreea Petric of the Space Telescope Sci ... more |
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Milky Way stars mapped as major source of ghost particle flux at EarthBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Neutrinos, often called ghost particles, are elementary particles that are electrically neutral, extremely light, and interact only rarely with other matter. Trillions pass through Earth and the hum ... more 
M dwarf plasma torus offers window into space weather and planetary habitabilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Carnegie researcher Luke Bouma is using a naturally occurring plasma structure around certain young M dwarf stars as a kind of space weather station to investigate how stellar particles shape planet ... more 
Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocksDavis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic t ... more 
Puffy young exoplanets reveal origin of super EarthsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Astronomers have identified a young planetary system that links newborn giant worlds to the compact super Earths and sub Neptunes that dominate the Milky Way. V1298 Tau, a star about 20 million year ... more |
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Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolvedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science and the Nat ... more |
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Jet from galaxy black hole drives vast stream of super heated gas into space Irvine, United States (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 University of California Irvine astronomers have reported the discovery of the largest known stream of super heated gas in the universe flowing out of a nearby spiral galaxy called VV 340a. The team ... more 
Dark matter neutrino link may ease cosmic tensionLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Scientists report signs that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, a possibility that would extend the standard cosmological model and change how structure growth in the universe is understood. ... more 
Star like early galaxies challenge views of cosmic evolutionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe that look like stars in images yet behave like compact galaxies when analyzed in detai ... more 
We finally know how the most common types of planets are createdLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ... more |
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