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Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle
A growing global network of neutrino detectors is mapping radioactive heat sources deep in Earth's mantle, hinting the distribution is far less uniform than assumed.
Read full story →NASA's IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory
X-ray polarization from a magnetar shows signs of vacuum birefringence, a quantum effect of empty space predicted by Heisenberg nearly 90 years ago.
Read full story →Never-before-seen woven structure that forms naturally inside a crystal discovered
A 3D woven fabric of electric dipoles spontaneously forms inside a cooling ferroelectric crystal, revealing a new way matter can self-organize.
Read full story →XENONnT detector narrows the hunt for dark matter
A 9-ton liquid xenon detector sets record sensitivity limits on lightweight dark matter candidates like axion-like particles and dark photons.
Read full story →Sunlight creates quantum entanglement once thought to require lasers
Using a solar concentrator, researchers generated entangled photon pairs directly from sunlight instead of a laser, reaching 94% fidelity to an ideal entangled state.
Read full story →The sun is covered in tiny whirlpools we've never seen before
The Inouye Solar Telescope reveals 20-km-wide plasma vortices on the sun that may drive nanoflares and speed magnetic field spreading in the corona.
Read full story →X(2370) emerges as a leading glueball candidate
After 15 years of study, the BESIII Collaboration confirmed the X(2370) particle is dominated by a pseudoscalar glueball, the first clear evidence for a particle made entirely of force-carrying gluons.
Read full story →Researchers Map the Hidden 3D Geometry of a Quantum Wavefunction
Gottingen physicists combined a tabletop soft X-ray laser with a new algorithm to image the 3D electron wavefunction of an organic molecule in just 8 hours, work once possible only at synchrotrons.
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