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Finding the right music for a video can take surprisingly long. Sometimes the problem isn’t finding a song

Superconductors are materials that conduct electricity with zero electrical resistance below specific temperatures. Most of these materials become superconducting at very low temperatures, but some also exhibit superconductivity at higher temperatures.

New research introduces a contactless way to see how mirror-image materials respond differently to circularly polarized light, without first building them into a complete electronic device. The researchers developed a novel method based on light-induced charge separation that allows researchers to directly probe how the material's structure acts like a microscopic filter, influencing how electrons separate and move.

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Look at a robotics simulator training an autonomous system, a digital twin of a city monitoring live infrastructure

Something fundamental shifted on X in January 2026. The platform retired its old rules based ranking system and

Picture reveals tiny plasma whirlpool-like patterns that have never been seen before The post Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun’s surface appeared first on Physics World.

Creating long-form videos traditionally requires extensive time, resources, and production skills. While AI video generators simplify content creation,

Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water on ancient Mars. The NASA Spirit Rover carried a specialized instrument called a Mössbauer Spectrometer that performed mineralogical analyses of soil, rock, and dust on the surface of the Red Planet at Gusev Crater. Individual measurements didn't always indicate definitive proof of water, but when scientist Paolo de Souza of Edith Cowan University in Australia examined years' worth of measurements together, a definite pattern began to show up in the existence of minerals that could only exist in the presence of water. His analysis shows that Mars used to sport a lot more water than scientists expected and that the data showing its existence was in the data all along.

What’s happening with Seedance 2.5 lately is a pretty good window into where AI-powered video generation is actually

Reddit Goes Video and Audio Reddit is taking cues from TikTok. On Thursday’s second-quarter earnings call, the company

Google Earth’s One-Day AI Feature Google rolled back an AI image-generation feature in Google Earth on Friday, one

The left-right asymmetry of South African butterfly lilies (genus Wachendorfia) has been regarded as a classic evolutionary puzzle for more than a century. Due to the mirror-image arrangement of the floral parts, the plants achieve efficient cross-pollination. The molecular basis of this arrangement has now been uncovered by an international team led by the University of Potsdam.

In this July 6, 2026, image, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, exposing the dusty structures and hidden activity that shape this unusual system.

A collaborative research group led by Hiroshi Daimon, a specially appointed research fellow at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed an "atom-holography microscope" capable of directly observing three-dimensional atomic arrangements in nanoscale regions by combining the electron beam of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) with CoDELMA, a newly developed two-dimensional display-type analyzer.

Nanoplastics—plastic particles smaller than one micrometer—are generated through the degradation and abrasion of plastic products and are increasingly detected in food, drinking water, air and biological tissues. Although the presence of plastic particles in animals and humans is well-established, determining how nanoplastics are distributed within complex organs, such as the brain, remains challenging.

For the first time, researchers can witness nanometer-scale thickness changes across a melting snowflake with a compact, lensless chip that captures gigapixel video at 30 frames per second across centimeter-scale fields.

Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms—like left and right hands—that look identical but can behave very differently, especially in biological systems and pharmaceuticals. Distinguishing between these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) is a longstanding challenge in science and technology. A useful analogy is that of a screw and a nut: A right-handed screw fits only into a right-handed thread, while a left-handed one will not engage properly.

TL;DR: Smart IP intercom installation replaces legacy audio buzzers with HD video, mobile app access, and direct integration

A Head of Growth at a mid-market SaaS company recently found that her team’s video heatmap dashboard had

Creative work rarely starts with a finished image or a polished video. More often, it begins with a

The enzyme tRNA-guanine transglycosylase (TGT) chemically modifies transfer RNA (tRNA) and plays a key role in how disease-causing bacteria control the production of proteins needed to cause infection. E. coli TGT is nearly identical to the one found in Shigella, which causes the intestinal infection shigellosis. Traditionally, scientists have used E. coli TGT as a primary model to understand how TGT works; however, they have struggled to visualize the atomic structure of E. coli TGT because the protein is difficult to crystallize, limiting their ability to learn more about the enzyme.

NASA's Psyche mission used a gravity assist maneuver at Mars to gain velocity and adjust its trajectory to its eventual target. The asteroid 16 Psyche is a metal-rich asteroid that may be the remnant rocky core of a protoplanet. The flyby not only shepherded the spacecraft on to its target, it was also an opportunity to test Psyche's science instruments and cameras. NASA has released a timelapse of the flyby.

Few human experiences are as universal—or as poorly understood—as loneliness. More than just feeling blue and the inspiration for countless songs, it's linked to poorer well-being, worse mental and physical health and a higher risk of early death.

Modern investigations generate far more media than they did even a decade ago. A single incident might involve

A new method called PackUV compresses massive 3D video data into everyday video formats, potentially bringing immersive video

This composite of images taken by NASA's Psyche mission shows the crescent of Mars grow as the spacecraft approached the planet for a gravity assist from May 2 to May 15, 2026.

The spacecraft aced its encounter with Mars. Now, mission scientists are studying a trove of data from the flyby in preparation for its arrival at asteroid Psyche in 2029.

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has a massive 570 megapixel camera, and its new image is of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. Corona Australis is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth. It's not as well-studied as the Orion Molecular Cloud or Ophiuchus, but as DECam's new iage of Corona Australis shows, it's just as fascinating.

Auckland to Los Angeles takes 65 to 95 milliseconds one way across Southern Cross’s international paths. Auckland to

Meta Scraps Its Muse Image Feature Meta said on Friday it is discontinuing an artificial intelligence feature that

Materials with magnetic nanostructures have a wide range of potential applications. One area is so-called spintronics, with devices that encode information in magnetic domains. These magnetic bits can be written, read and erased in a more energy-efficient way than bits in current semiconductor devices. Spin textures and magnetic domains in such materials can be investigated using nanoscale magnetic imaging techniques. For example, photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM), coupled with a magnetically sensitive detection mechanism.

If you visit Scandinavia, you are likely to find yourself at an exhibition about Vikings. There are many to choose from.

Sony’s Superzoom Comeback Sony has unveiled the RX10 V, a superzoom compact camera with a 24-600mm optical zoom

We've talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets using current rocket fairings—at least as long as we're not sending them 500-plus AU away to a gravitational lensing point. We've also talked at length about the potential solution to that problem—interferometry, where multiple smaller satellites link up precisely but are spaced far enough apart to act as one gigantic mirror. The problem is, from a technical standpoint, it's really hard to build these kinds of systems.

This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals, the first ever seen on the Red Planet.

We’ve talked plenty of times here about the infeasibility of launching a mirror big enough to directly image exoplanets using current rocket fairings - at least as long as we’re not sending them 500+ AU away to a gravitational lensing point. We’ve also talked at length about the potential solution to that problem - interferometry, where multiple smaller satellites link up precisely, but are spaced far enough apart to act as one gigantic mirror. The problem is, from a technical standpoint, it’s really hard to build these kinds of systems. But the field has taken another step forward with a new paper from researchers at Xidian University and the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, published in Space: Science & Technology, which describes a system to both control and calibrate a free-floating interferometer.

This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way's most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars.

The explosive growth of data generated by artificial intelligence, cloud computing and modern digital infrastructure is placing increasing pressure on existing information storage technologies. Although magnetic storage systems such as hard disk drives remain the dominant platform for digital storage, they face challenges including rising costs, limited lifespan and relatively slow information retrieval.

Meta’s First In-House Image Model Meta rolled out Muse Image on Tuesday, the first image generation model built

Movement data from wild predator–prey encounters and controlled human catch-tag games have been combined to create realistic simulations of high-intensity movement dynamics and energetics—before being transformed into a publicly accessible video game. This game uses a citizen science approach to data collection and is helping to further our understanding of the role of movement decision-making and fatigue in life-or-death encounters.

Easy to understand images play a key role in every area of modern life, from science and technology

To make sophisticated images, artists use their imagination and creative ability along with a good amount of patience

Rare images taken by a Japanese space probe during a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid have revealed that the space rock resembled a snowman, scientists said Monday.

Picture a bright red apple. Most people can do this easily. They imagine the apple's shape, color and shine. But for others, the image is vague and blurry or they "see" nothing at all. This is known as aphantasia—a "blind mind's eye."

For two years, every longer video I made was held together with tape. I would generate a short

This image shows the sea surface temperature anomaly detected in the Mediterranean Sea on June 29, 2026, compared with the average for the period 1991–2020, with dark red indicating temperatures that exceed the average by up to 8°C (46.4°F).

A Meter on Meta’s Glasses Meta has put a clock on one of its smart glasses’ best tricks.

Contrary to common stereotypes, seniors' digital savvy is surging. New research from Rutgers University-New Brunswick suggests one reason: Digital tools are essential for the development and maintenance of age-friendly initiatives—programs and policies designed to support and include older adults.

CMOS image sensors are entering a generation of development shaped less by incremental scaling and more by considerations for how to increase the light efficiency that can be engineered within increasingly complex optical stacks. Across a growing range of applications, photon efficiency, angular control, size, and more cost-effective manufacturability at scale are the core parameters that are defining performance. As a result, optical architecture has become a primary lever of differentiation for the electro-optic industry. Courtesy of y_cgi_stock/stock.adobe.com. ___[---MARKETPLACECATS---]___ From a technical standpoint, three trends are converging to reshape CMOS image sensor design: the integration of optics at the wafer level,...

Millions of stars. Thousands of hidden worlds. One unprecedented view of our galaxy. Three years since launch, ESA's Euclid space telescope reveals the center of the Milky Way galaxy in extraordinary detail: a mosaic of tens of millions of stars captured in just 26 hours. But this is more than an image. It is a map of stellar evolution, from dark clouds where stars are being born to ancient populations packed into the galactic bulge.

AI video has quickly moved from technical curiosity to practical production tool. Marketers, creators, and small teams are

While many people migrate because of social and economic inequalities, forced migration is caused by political conflicts, lack of access to food and—increasingly—a lack of access to water.

Although deep learning methods can enhance fluorescence microscopy under photon-limited conditions, they cannot ensure the fidelity of image restoration networks under fluorescence noise. Existing restoration networks are typically built to train with small patches rather than the full-view raw data. This can compromise image fidelity and noise resistance, due to the loss of global contextual statistics. LargePNet, a generic, large-view-aggregation, fluorescence image restoration network, overcomes the loss of global contextual information caused by conventional, patch-based training. Developed at Peking University, by a team led by professor Xi Peng, LargePNet collects large-view statistical information through a dedicated network...

The world of quantum video games is vast – there are hundreds that are either inspired by quantum mechanics or use quantum computers in their development. Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explores how these could change our understanding of quantum physics, or even help us make better devices

This striking pair of galaxies located 80 million light-years from Earth lies in the constellation Leo against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3504 is seen on the right, and the spiral galaxy NGC 3512 is on the left. Although the two galaxies are thought to be physically close to one another, no clear evidence of ongoing gravitational interaction has been found.

In this photo from June 21, 2026, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA's Pegasus barge. After offloading and transportation to the spaceport's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Roman will undergo processing ahead of launch, targeted no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.

In the last few years, there have been lots of changes to video surveillance tech. Not too long

A photograph of Earth glowing in deep space, the moon's cratered horizon stretching across its foreground, caught many people's eyes in April 2026. Astronauts captured the image while aboard NASA's Artemis II mission, and like the famous Apollo 8 "Earthrise" image, the picture felt instantly real and inspiring for many.

Scientists built a flying robot that is both easy to control and energy-efficient, especially in changing wind conditions. The robot can change its shape and uses wind to stay in the air, instead of relying on thrust-generating motors.

Proteins carry out almost every important function in our body, from copying our DNA to turning the food we eat into energy. These tiny "molecular machines" are first made by our cells as straight chains, like long pieces of string. Then, to work properly, each protein must fold into an intricate 3D shape.

Cells have evolved careful checks to ensure DNA is copied only once, but how they switch on replication at the right moment has been the focus of a 30-year research question. New work from the Crick has recorded the missing step.

Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food and even in our bodies. The very smallest particles, in particular, are difficult to measure, meaning we still know too little about their spread and associated risks. UvA chemist Maria Hayder and her colleagues have developed a new measurement method that maps nanoplastics in water and the environment much more accurately. On Wednesday, June 24, she will defend her Ph.D. dissertation on this research at the University of Amsterdam.

Millions of Californians, in every part of the state, live with an uneasy day-to-day preoccupation: Housing is so expensive here, food and gas and utilities are so expensive—would it make sense to pull up stakes and leave for another state?

Instead of going to stores to compare products, Americans have increasingly turned to watching online video reviews. As far back as a decade ago, 55% of Americans reported they'd watched online reviews of products, according to Pew Research. As of late 2024, Pew found 62% were relying on the video platform TikTok to view product reviews or recommendations.

Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics toward Greenland. This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc. It does this work largely out of sight, so it doesn't have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems.

UCLA researchers led by Aydogan Ozcan designed a snapshot 3D image projection system that integrates a digital encoder with a passive diffractive optical decoder, jointly optimized end-to-end through deep learning. The solution projects multiple, distinct images onto closely spaced axial planes in a single shot. The system is optimal for holography, immersive visualization, and AR/VR interfaces, according to the researchers. Dense depth multiplexing in conventional holographic displays remains a bottleneck as the axial image planes approach one another in the output volume; diffraction-induced cross-talk rapidly degrades depth selectivity and image fidelity. Artistic depiction of snapshot 3D image projection using a jointly...

A University of Manchester student has developed a powerful new ultra‑lightweight tool that can turn dark, noisy footage

An international collaborative research group has developed a new computational method to visualize the electronic states of aperiodic nanomaterials as band structures through first-principles calculations on finite-sized giant molecule models. The approach reformulates band unfolding for giant molecule models and works even when translational symmetry is imperfect or the material is curved. The team includes Assistant Professor Naoya Yamaguchi and Professor Fumiyuki Ishii of the Nanomaterials Research Institute at Kanazawa University, Associate Professor Chi-Cheng Lee of Tamkang University in Taiwan, and Professor Taisuke Ozaki of the University of Tokyo.

People communicate with each other, sometimes face to face, sometimes with a text message or phone call. Cells also communicate with each other, sometimes by touching and sometimes by sending signals across space and time. But while texts and phone calls can be traced to figure out who is talking to whom, determining which cell is talking to which is exceedingly difficult—until now.

Recent years have witnessed great advances in applying deep learning to improve fluorescence microscopy imaging. However, enhancing the fidelity of image restoration networks and improving their robustness under fluorescence noise remain significant challenges.

AI video tools are no longer experimental. They’re part of everyday ad production now.I use them whenever I

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this color-enhanced view of Jupiter's northern hemisphere during its 61st close flyby of the giant planet on May 12, 2024.

In today's attention economy, social media platforms, entertainment apps and news feeds all compete for our focus.

Researchers have developed a new optical microscopy technique that uses a single ultracold atom trapped in optical tweezers as a camera. Called the Atom Camera, the technique visualizes not only light intensity distributions but also polarization distributions. It has a high spatial resolution below 100 nm. Its developers, led by assistant professor Takafumi Tomita at the Institute for Molecular Science at the National Institutes of Natural Sciences, expect the method to be useful in quantum computing and other emerging quantum technologies. In the work, a single atom trapped by an optical tweezer was successfully utilized as a scanning probe to image the fine structures of intensity and polarization distributions of light patterns...

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next

From chewing to chomping to grinding, teeth suffer from a lifetime of repeated mechanical stress. It makes sense, then, that enamel is one of the hardest natural materials.

A PET radiotracer that can visualize deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism wins the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s most prestigious award The post PET scan that detects dangerous blood clots is SNMMI ‘Image of the Year’ appeared first on Physics World.

Quantum Backrooms is a horror game in which the player explores eerie rooms. The twist is that the rooms have been generated by a quantum computer

Modern AI systems are reshaping the entire home design workflow. From remodeling concepts to realistic room visualization, digital

Most teams treat video protection as a DRM question. Either you have DRM or you do not. That

Researchers developed an AI-assisted nanotweezer platform that rapidly traps thousands of milk-derived extracellular vesicles and analyzes them without chemical labels. By combining electrohydrodynamic trapping, interferometric imaging, and deep learning, the system estimates vesicle size, refractive index, heterogeneity, and sorting potential at the single-particle level.

Gay dating apps are exposing men to intense pressure to look sexually desirable, fueling body dissatisfaction and low self-esteem, with some users describing the experience as feeling like they are "selling their body" rather than forming genuine connections.

Most organisations, especially in this modern era, handle a wide range of complex projects that involve stakeholders, multiple

Researchers at University of Tsukuba used advanced techniques to visualize the water flow generated by flutter kicking during front-crawl swimming. They analyzed how this kicking motion generates propulsive force and contributes to body stabilization, demonstrating that the vertical vortices resulting from the alternating left and right leg movements not only impart forward propulsion but also suppress body sway. These results provide a fluid-dynamical explanation of the functional value of the flutter kick.

University of Cincinnati structural biologists are the first in the world to visualize a key cell protein as part of newly published research from the College of Medicine. The Seegar Lab has become the first to visualize the structure of a regulator protein, iRhom1, bound to the ADAM17 enzyme, using cryogenic electron microscopy housed in UC's Center for Advanced Structural Biology research facility.

WAN became one of the most-used AI video models in 2025, particularly for cost-conscious production work where Veo

The strongest of several twisters to touch down in the southern part of the state in early May 2026 left a visible path of damaged vegetation.

Captured by the multispectral imager instrument on NASA's Psyche mission, this is an enhanced-color view of the large double-ring crater Huygens (upper right; about 290 miles, or 470 kilometers, in diameter) and the surrounding heavily cratered southern highlands near 15 degrees south latitude. The various colors in this dramatic scene are likely due to differences in the compositional properties of dust, sand, and bedrock in this ancient terrain. The image scale is around 2,200 feet (670 meters) per pixel.

This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, at about 5:03 a.m. PDT by NASA's Psyche mission as it approached the planet for a gravity assist. Captured by the spacecraft's multispectral imager instrument, this was the last view of the whole planet before it began to overfill the field of view of the camera.

This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA's Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region. The image scale is nearly 1,200 feet (360 meters) per pixel. The wind streaks extend to about 30 miles (50 kilometers) long, and the large craters near the center-bottom of the scene average about 30 miles in diameter.

E-commerce art direction often produces two honest files: a clean product frame and a model frame that was

An international team of scientists has developed a new analysis of how sound waves behave, revealing surprising effects that have largely been overlooked for decades. In the new paper in Scientific Reports, which was led by researchers from City St George's, University of London, the team explored how sound waves move through air and how those movements might be perceived visually.

Before Smile can begin studying how Earth responds to the streams of particles and bursts of radiation from the sun, the spacecraft had to complete an extraordinary journey here on Earth.

Most Americans know what a real expert's credentials look like: relevant degree, years of experience, and respect from peers. The problem, according to a study recently published in Scientific Reports, is that none of it matters as much once we find out their politics.

Before the Russian invasion, Ukraine didn’t have that many advanced weapons. They did have a good number of

It's autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, which means it's fog season in the Victorian Alps. NASA's Terra satellite captured this view of morning fog filling valleys in several national parks across the mountains of eastern Victoria in May.

Many creams and serums contain artificial ingredients that are harmful to the environment. Natural plant oils would be more sustainable but are difficult to process. ETH researcher Svitlana Mykolenko has developed a way of turning plant oils into stable gels without synthetic additives.

To the untrained eye, they look like blobs blotching the otherwise smooth surface of rod-like bacteria. But if you ask a microbiologist about "cellulosomes," they will likely tell you that those blobs are actually sophisticated cellulolytic machines.

imec spinoff eyeo has raised €40 million ($47M) in series A funding, bringing the company’s total funding to €55 million. Eyeo is working to commercialize its novel image sensor architecture, which uses vertical waveguide-based technology to split light into colors, tripling sensitivity compared to existing technologies. Called Nanophotonic Color Splitting (NCOS), the platform enables greater sensitivity without increasing sensor size, and eliminates the need for color filters. Illustration of eyeo’s technology platform (right) compared to traditional sensor operating concept. Courtesy of eyeo. According to Eyeo, the solution is particularly valuable in low-light environments, where current sensors struggle to...