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Modern industry relies heavily on catalysts, which are substances that speed up chemical reactions. They're vital in everything from manufacturing household chemicals to generating clean energy or recycling waste. However, designing new catalysts is challenging because their performance is affected by many interacting factors.

Current electrochemical theory does not adequately describe realistic platinum electrodes. Scientists at Leiden University have now, for the first time, mapped the influence of imperfect platinum surfaces. This provides a more accurate picture of these electrodes, with applications in hydrogen production and sensors.

A semiconductor device generates unforgeable watermarks from chaotic electron behavior, embedding invisible markers in images that expose AI manipulation at the pixel level while also enabling stronger encryption.

A new web-based tool visualizes catalyst gene profiles, helping scientists explore patterns and improve catalyst design.

New Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has explored how facial filters, pop culture and centuries-old stereotypes are shaping how people see their faces. The study investigated the way the nose is represented on social media, and how this connects to a long history of gender and race politics. The paper "Looking at the Nose: Gender, Jewishness, and the Politics of Visual Mediation" was published in the journal Body & Society.

A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on its belly and sending plumes of flame behind it, a video posted to social media showed.

Researchers have developed a new process that turns ordinary metal tubes unsinkable - meaning they will stay afloat no matter how long they are forced into water or how heavily they are damaged.

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have uncovered how targeted lung cancer drugs alter the shape and behavior of a key cancer-driving protein—revealing a hidden mechanism that helps explain why some treatments stop working over time.

Cryogenic 4D-STEM reveals how charge density waves form, fragment, and persist across a phase transition.

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool that brings impossibly distant galaxies into reach. The JWST uses galaxy clusters and their overpowering to magnify background galaxies that are otherwise beyond our observational capabilities. One cluster, named MACS J1149.5+2223, is 5 billion light-years away and holds at least 300 galaxies, probably many more. It's been chosen as the JWST's Picture Of The Month.

The mystery of quantum phenomena inside materials—such as superconductivity, where electric current flows without energy loss—lies in when electrons move together and when they break apart. KAIST researchers have succeeded in directly observing the moments when electrons form and dissolve ordered patterns.

A collaborative team of four professors and several graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemical Science and Technology at National Taiwan University, together with the Department of Applied Chemistry at National Chi Nan University, has achieved a long-sought breakthrough.

Most people assume that when an election comes down to two main parties, the logic of voting is straightforward: weigh up the options and choose the least bad one.

At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic world of quantum mechanics a century ago, they weren't trying to build better medical tools or high-speed internet. They were simply curious about how the universe worked at its most fundamental level.

Visuals have become a core part of how we communicate ideas online. From blog posts and presentations to

Getting consistent image outputs from AI models can feel like chasing a moving target. One moment you get

Elon Musk’s xAI has slammed the brakes on Grok’s image-editing capabilities following an alarming wave of manipulated photos

Researchers have developed a humanoid robot that can learn realistic lip motions, enabling it to articulate words across languages and perform singing for the first time.

Spain just became the latest European nation to take direct aim at synthetic media abuse. The country’s cabinet

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. To the left, an actively forming star called a protostar casts its glow on the surrounding gas and dust, creating a reflection nebula. Two dark stripes on opposite sides […]

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems related to image aberrations in single-pixel microscopy using a recent technology: programmable deformable lenses. The new method was described by the research team in an open-access article recently published in Nature Communications and is part of the development of the European CONcISE project.

Natural disaster losses worldwide dropped sharply to $224 billion in 2025, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, but warned of a still "alarming" picture of extreme weather events likely driven by climate change.

A smaller white dwarf star (left) pulls material from a larger star into a swirling accretion disk in this artist's concept released Nov. 19, 2025, to illustrate the first use of NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star.

For many people, the allure of video games is that they offer players a chance to enter a world very different from their own: everything from fighting dragons in a mythical realm to racing cars on an obstacle-filled roadway. Researchers at the University of Vermont wanted to see what players would do in a more realistic world: playing as small farmers, their actions modeled after real-life decisions farmers in Vermont face each harvest season.

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA, launched on Sept. 7th, 2023. Its advanced imaging filters and spectrometers were designed to study black holes and neutron stars and detect the hot plasma in the intergalactic medium. Alongside the European Space Agency's (ESA) X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission Newton (XMM-Newton) and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), XRISM has provided the sharpest-ever X-ray spectrum of the iconic MCG–6-30-15.

The year that iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the movie "Top Gun" was setting box office records. Forty years later, the massive tabular berg—one of the largest and longest-lived bergs ever tracked by scientists—is sopping with blue meltwater and on the verge of complete disintegration as it drifts in the South Atlantic between the eastern tip of South America and South Georgia island.

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades.

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured this image of lightning while orbiting aboard the International Space Station more than 250 miles above Milan, Italy on July 1, 2025.

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over more than two and a half decades.

Creating high-quality video content has never been more accessible, thanks to the power of AI. The Grok imagine

On clear days in Hartbeespoort, South Africa, satellite images often reveal a reservoir with shades of deep blue interrupted by drifting patches of vivid green. These shifting features indicate algae blooms, which can affect water quality, ecosystems, and nearby human communities.

The Huíla plateau, bounded by dramatic cliffs and chasms, stands above the arid coastal plains in the country's southwest.

The first results on the iconic active galactic nucleus MCG–6-30-15 captured with the XRISM mission show the most precise signatures yet of its supermassive black hole’s extreme gravity and the outflows that shape its galaxy.

Artificial intelligence can now generate photorealistic images, cinematic videos, lifelike voices, and original music from simple text prompts.

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory module.

Mid-infrared observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shown in white, gray, and red, are combined here with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, highlighted in blue. Together, these different wavelengths reveal a detailed and layered view of a pair of colliding spiral galaxies, captured in an image released on Dec. 1, 2025.

On the launch anniversary of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, ESA presents a unique compilation of zooms into stunning cosmic views.

Some of the world's most advanced robots showed off their skills at tech shows and sporting events, doing everything from cooking shrimp to running half marathons

Author(s): David EhrensteinThe Gallery of Fluid Dynamics winners’ circle includes drops shaken loose from a wire, odor diffusion in a breeze, and droplets acting quantum-like. [Physics 18, 204] Published Wed Dec 24, 2025

Imaging technology has transformed how we observe the universe—from mapping distant galaxies with radio telescope arrays to unlocking microscopic details inside living cells. Yet despite decades of innovation, a fundamental barrier has persisted: capturing high-resolution, wide-field images at optical wavelengths without cumbersome lenses or strict alignment constraints.

Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending above and below the disk, offering new insight into planet formation.

Researchers from Skoltech Engineering Center's Hierarchically Structured Materials Laboratory have developed a new method to determine the porosity of fibrous materials using a single image taken with a standard optical microscope.

The year’s most memorable moments from astronomy and space exploration include a double-detonating supernova, a private moon landing and a stunning lunar eclipse

Our visual highlights from the animal world this year include a mouse caring for its companion, dolphins communicating in an unexpected way and a colossal squid caught on camera for the first time

"Kablooey!" That's the word U.S. Geological Survey volcanic experts used to describe a muddy eruption at Black Diamond Pool in Yellowstone National Park on Saturday morning.

Dive in and meet some of the most stunning deep-sea animals that MBARI encountered in 2025. This year, our team spotted ultra-black fishes, sinuous siphonophores, curious crabs, spectacular sponges, and so many more dazzling denizens of the deep—all captured by ultra high-definition 4K cameras on our advanced underwater robots.

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new technology, which does not require strong technical skills, has the potential to revolutionize the digital communication of cultural heritage.

Physicists 3D-printed an ice Christmas tree using only water and a vacuum, but no refrigeration. Time-lapse shows it printing, then melting when the pump stops.

OpenAI just launched GPT Image 1.5 on Tuesday, bringing sharper edits, better instruction accuracy, and image creation speeds

The landscape of digital imagery has undergone a fundamental transformation. What once required hours of manual editing in

Clockwise from left, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui and NASA astronauts Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, and Mike Fincke pose for a playful portrait through a circular opening in a hatch thermal cover aboard the International Space Station on Sept. 18, 2025.

After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the surface with its HiRISE camera. Short for High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE is the instrument the mission relies on for high-resolution images of features ranging from impact craters, sand dunes, and ice deposits to potential landing sites. Those images, in turn, help improve our understanding of Mars and prepare for NASA's future human missions there.

In a discovery that’s fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting

Scientists use acoustic waves and condensed matter physics to detect proteins and cancer cells, sidestepping the limits of traditional miniaturization.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a glittering blue dwarf galaxy called Markarian 178 (Mrk 178). The galaxy, which is substantially smaller than our own Milky Way, lies 13 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear).

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight—the death of a low-mass star—in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017.

On 12 December 2025 at 03:09:36 UTC, astronomers at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium (AOP) have captured what is believed to be the first video recording of a lunar impact flash in Ireland, and the second recorded from the UK.

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar system is already rare, finding one that circles two suns is even rarer. But this new world is extra exceptional. It hugs its twin stars more tightly than any other directly imaged planet in a binary system. In fact, it is six times closer to its suns than other previously discovered exoplanets.

The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.

One of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year reaches its peak this week—giving skywatchers the chance to see up to 100 "shooting stars" an hour under perfect conditions.

Adaptive optics (AO) systems compensate for image distortions that can occur when an object is viewed through a microscope, telescope, or other optical instrument. An AO system will adjust the instrument’s optical elements continuously, correcting aberrations in real time. Typically, an AO system detects distortions by tracking a guide star — a single point of light that, for telescopes, is an actual star. The AO system analyzes apparent fluctuations in the light of the guide star and adjusts the optical imager to offset these shifts. The AO system works iteratively, allowing the optical instrument to continuously adapt to changing conditions. However, some optical instruments, such as label-free microscopes, do not...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances.

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," the video actually details four missions that the China National Space Agency (CNSA) has planned as part of the country's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). These missions cover a broad range of next-generation science objectives that space agencies worldwide want to achieve in the coming decades.

The first giant panda cub born in Indonesia is noisy, nursing well and showing other signs of good health, the conservation park where he was born said Sunday.

have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is usually nearly invisible in optical microscopes because it has no optical resonances. To resolve this issue, the team uses nonlinear microscopy with infrared light, making the material shine very brightly and even reveal its crystal orientation. The work has important implications for the vibrant field of designing new (opto-)electronic devices from stacking 2D materials.

A video that appeared on CGTN's Hot Take details four missions that China will be sending to space in the coming years, including a survey telescope that will search for Earth 2.0.

Though some might see video games as a distraction, a recent study from the University of Georgia suggests they can actually serve as a place to practice key science skills—with the help of some adorable cats, of course.

Based on studies of leaping squirrels, students design a robot that can stick a landing on a branch.

A research team led by Ryo Shimano of the University of Tokyo has successfully visualized two distinct mechanisms through which up and down spins, inherent properties of electrons, switch in an antiferromagnet, a material in which spin alignments cancel each other out. One of the visualized mechanisms provides a working principle for developing ultrafast, non-volatile magnetic memory and logic devices, which could be much faster than today's technologies.

A technical glitch during a Zoom call shouldn't be that big a deal, or lead someone to make a judgment about the person on the other end. But in actuality, glitches during face-to-face video calls—even when the glitch does not affect the transmission of information—can shatter the illusion of being across the table from the other person, evoking a creepy or eerie feeling known as "uncanniness."

Speed is of the utmost importance for many imaging and machine vision tasks. This metric is often used in the context of image capture rates and acquisition times. For a range of applications, including industrial inspection and production-line quality assurance, high-speed imaging is paramount to ensure that captured images yield as much usable information as possible for end users. In this way, ultrafast imaging is an essential tool for informed decision-making. A close-up of a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array with a microlens. Courtesy of Pi Imaging. End users may be able to optimize image acquisition speeds for a particular application. With modern image-proces- sing software and AI tools, real-time image...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new study based on analyses of the genomes of 28 people who lived between 10,200 and 150 years ago in southern Africa. The researchers also found genetic adaptations that likely shaped Homo sapiens as a species.

The Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured glowing cosmic dust heated by very young massive stars in unprecedented detail in this image of the Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2) molecular cloud released on Sept. 24, 2025.

ESA's first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth's water cycle.

See some of the winning entries for this year's Oceania Photo Contest, including Miesa Grobbelaar's shot of a whale, which took the top prize

There is no doubt that today, the Internet is filled with all kinds of videos that we are

Video games have changed a lot over the past few decades. They have gone from simple graphics and

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.

University of Houston researchers developed a new X-ray imaging method capable of revealing hidden features in a single shot, a breakthrough that could advance cancer detection, disease monitoring, security screening and material analysis.

Augmented reality (AR) waveguide displays often exhibit low efficiency caused by losses from multiple interactions between the incoming light and the input port, also known as the in-coupler, where the image enters the glass. These losses limit system brightness and clarity. To ensure bright, uniform visual output from AR devices, a team at the University of Rochester developed an in-coupler featuring three specialized zones made with metasurface materials. Each zone is optimized for high efficiency. The multizone, metasurface in-couplers could help bring AR devices steps closer to practical, everyday use in education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, and other fields. “Many of today’s AR headsets are...

The release of Google’s new Nano Banana Pro AI model—powered by the Gemini 3.0 Pro—has quickly become one

Google launches Nano Banana Pro, a new image-generation tool powered by Gemini 3 that creates studio-grade visuals with

We face a universal problem: too much information. We see two-hour podcasts, long lectures, and detailed tutorials on

AI music-video generators now flip a raw track into scroll-stopping visuals in minutes, cutting both costs and turnaround

In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical devices, mobile phones or human tissue. The bacterial behavior, how they attach and grow, group together or excrete compounds that glue the biofilm, is influenced by their mechanical interaction with the surface.

New technology illuminates the messages that cells leave behind.

Many animals have been observed using tools. For example, chimps tear leaves off of branches and stick them into holes to pull out termites, and wild dingoes have been observed moving objects to stand on to get to another area. However, despite being known as fairly intelligent animals, wolves have never been observed using tools.

People acknowledge that this is an era of the digital world where social media entertainment is ranking higher.

The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking out from the side of the sun.

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station's Harmony module. Attached to its latching end effector is Dextre, the station's fine-tuned robotic hand designed for delicate external maintenance tasks.

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like

A PET scanner with optimized depth-of-interaction detectors achieves a record sub-0.5 mm spatial resolution The post High-resolution PET scanner visualizes mouse brain structures with unprecedented detail appeared first on Physics World.

A systematic review of academic research in the International Journal of Web Based Communities has looked at the relationship between the leading online video content sites and its recommendation system and how this might affect the circulation of polarized or misleading content. The review analyzed 56 studies investigating how the platform's algorithms interact with material including political disinformation, health-related misinformation, and extremist content.

A long-term analysis shows that a major Oregon reservoir abruptly swapped one type of toxic algae for another midway through the 12-year study period, absent any obvious cause. The project provides a novel look at harmful algal blooms (HABs), which pose multiple health risks to people and animals worldwide.

Researchers have designed and demonstrated a new optical component that could significantly enhance the brightness and image quality of augmented reality (AR) glasses. The advance brings AR glasses a step closer to becoming as commonplace and useful as today's smartphones.

X-ray µCT opens route to exploring 3D “wave chaos”, nonlinear optics, and quantum photonics.

A stacked chip captures, encrypts, and searches image data directly on hardware, combining photodetection, memory, and key generation for secure real-time processing in connected devices.

Picture it: I’m minding my business at a party, parked by the snack table (of course). A friend of a friend wanders up, and we strike up a conversation. It quickly turns to work, and upon learning that I’m a climate technology reporter, my new acquaintance says something like: “Should I be using AI? I’ve…

The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite has joined the Sentinel-1 mission in orbit. Launch took place on 4 November 2025 at 22:03 CET (18:03 local time) on board an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

A spooky bat has been spotted flying over the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Paranal site in Chile, right in time for Halloween. Thanks to its wide field of view, the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) was able to capture this large cloud of cosmic gas and dust, whose mesmerising appearance resembles the silhouette of a bat.