Exotic states of matter known as time crystals are largely considered a quantum phenomenon. Now, a team from New York University (NYU) has shown that a classical time crystal can emerge in a far simpler way – using nothing but speakers and styrofoam. This system might not just be an extraordinarily clean example of a
Astronomers from the University of Tokyo and other institutions have utilized the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the distant and ultraviolet-luminous galaxy CEERS2-588, one of the most intriguing galaxies discovered in the early universe. Published on January 29 in a study on the arXiv, the findings provide a deeper understanding of this galaxy,
Atop the mountain Cerro Armazones in Chile, construction is underway on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), which will usher in a new era of astronomy when it’s completed. The ELT will be the world’s largest telescope, with a primary mirror that measures 128 feet (39 meters) across. What is it? Astronomy depends as much on
During the lead-up to NASA’s Artemis 1 mission back in 2022, recurring hydrogen leaks led to significant delays and a cancelled launch attempt. The agency had three years to address the underlying issues with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket’s hardware, and yet, the Artemis 2 wet dress rehearsal felt all too familiar. NASA engineers
Refresh 2026-02-09T13:24:08.399Z Monday, Feb. 9: The Heavenly ‘G’ (after dark) See the Heavenly ‘G’ on Feb. 9. (Image credit: Starry Night.) If you’ve been reading these pages for a while, you’ll know how to find the grand Winter Hexagon (also called the Winter Circle) at this time of year. Start low in the southeast with
A new Chinese dinosaur shows that at least some members of the Iguanodon group – long assumed to be entirely scaly-skinned – had short spikes across part of the body. Dubbed Haolong dongi by a joint team from China, Belgium, France and Italy and led by Jiandong Huang of China’s Anhui Geological Museum and Pascal Godefroit of the
A recent discovery suggests Mars may have once had a much larger moon, which could have caused tides in a lake that once filled Gale Crater. This intriguing possibility comes from a study of sediment layers in the crater, which the Curiosity rover has been investigating for years. If confirmed, this would explain the planet’s
SpaceX resumed launching Falcon 9 rockets this weekend after last week’s second stage incident. At the same time, CEO Elon Musk claimed that the company has shifted its focus from Mars to “building a self-growing city on the Moon” within a decade. The second stage issue, which resulted in a failed deorbit burn and subsequent
The algorithm was also able to identify new neighborhoods, regions that previous neuroscience methods, including the Allen Mouse Brain Common Coordinate Framework, had missed. Take the striatum, a striped, vaguely C-shaped structure near the middle of the brain. In maps of the mouse brain, where the striatum is called the caudoputamen, “you just see one
Imagine a visitor from beyond our cosmic neighborhood. Not just from the next street over, but from an entirely different star system, a place we can only dream of reaching. These ancient wanderers, like comet 3I/ATLAS, are cosmic time capsules. They carry the elemental fingerprints of other stellar nurseries, offering a rare glimpse into the