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The members of the BEC team at Columbia, from left to right: associate research scientist Ian Stevenson, doctoral student Niccolò Bigagli, doctoral student Weijun Yuan, undergraduate student Boris Bulatovic, doctoral student Siwei Zhang, and principal investigator Sebastian Will.
Columbia physicists created a long-lived molecular BEC using microwaves, opening new paths for quantum simulation and materials research.
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An international team of researchers used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and XRISM, a JAXA-led mission with ESA participation, to uncover and study a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. The gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second.
SpaceAstronomers watch a supermassive black hole X-ray flare ignite an ultra-fast galactic windJoseph Shavit
This is a graph of recorded temperatures (left) and a model of temperatures (right) around the globe for a fixed latitude over time.
AINew AI system helps scientists understand complex systems that change over timeShy Cohen
Hubble imaged a record-size protoplanetary disk with one-sided filaments and turbulent “wisps,” reshaping ideas of planet formation.
SpaceDracula’s Chivito: Hubble reveals the largest known planet-forming diskJoseph Shavit
A Colorado team has found that sargramostim, a long used immune drug, cut a blood marker of neuron death by 40 percent in people with Alzheimer’s and modestly improved scores on a standard memory test, offering cautious hope that brain cell loss in the disease can be slowed.
HealthFDA-approved drug may slow brain cell death in Alzheimer’s patientsMac Oliveau
A major review finds dogs rarely replace children, but “pet parenting” can fulfill nurturing needs and reshape modern family life.
DiscoveriesModern dog ownership has redefined family and parentingRebecca Shavit
Excavation of 400,000 year old pond sediments at Barnham, Suffolk
DiscoveriesScientists discover the earliest evidence of human fire-making dating back 400,000 yearsRebecca Shavit
Laboratory tests show that small amounts of silicon and carbon mixed with iron may explain why seismic waves travel unevenly through Earth’s inner core.
SpaceScientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner coreJoseph Shavit
Engineers at UC San Diego have created a water based, spray on polymer that coats plant leaves, kills harmful bacteria and even helps plants withstand short droughts. By triggering whole plant defenses from a small treated area, the gas permeable polynorbornene coating could become a powerful, plant friendly tool to protect crops in a warming, more disease prone world.
Green ImpactSpray on polymer shield helps plants fight bacteria and survive droughtJoshua Shavit
A 20-year satellite record shows that Thwaites Glacier’s eastern ice shelf is weakening through a clear, staged process driven by cracks and shifting stress.
Green ImpactQuiet cracking is destabilizing Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier leading to irreversible collapseMac Oliveau
Artistic impression of the Electrostatic Tractor during an Earth encounter.
SpaceScientists build an electrostatic ‘tractor beam’ to move space junk safelyShy Cohen
Johns Hopkins researchers tie loss of the CSE enzyme to memory decline and Alzheimer’s-like brain damage in mice.
Health‘Fart gas’ linked to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like brain damage, study findsJoseph Shavit
An artist’s rendering shows the rare galaxy system J1219+1035, where three galaxies are in the process of merging. At their cores sit three actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes, with powerful jets illuminating the gas around them.
SpaceThree black holes light up at once in rare three-galaxy collisionJoseph Shavit
Tiny air bubbles trapped in ancient salt crystals are offering the clearest view yet of Earth’s atmosphere a billion years ago.
Green ImpactAncient salt reveals a clear view of Earth’s atmosphere from 1.4 billion-years-agoMac Oliveau
Archaeologists at the University of Copenhagen used AI, Unreal Engine and YouTube tutorials to build a low cost 3D game that lets you wander a real Neolithic burial site and talk with an AI driven Stone Age woman and archaeologist in real time.
AIAI helps archaeologists build low-cost stone age video games in daysShy Cohen
A macro photograph of a cluster of mushroom-like plants on the forest floor against a mossy backdrop. These are Balanophora fungosa ssp. fungosa from southern Okinawa Island.
Green ImpactStrange parasitic ‘mushroom’ plant abandoned photosynthesis and somehow flourishedRebecca Shavit
New analysis of Juno data reveals Europa’s ice shell may be up to 39 kilometers thick, reshaping views of its hidden ocean.
SpaceNASA’s Juno spacecraft offers fresh insight into Europa’s icy ocean and its potential to support lifeJoseph Shavit